Discovered yet another WordPress Casino Spam Hack
I recently got an email of google informing me about a potential hack of a wordpress site I’m responsible for. It is presenting a massive amount of casino and cash load spam websites. Despite the fact...
View ArticleCreate State of the Art SSL Certificates to prevent Google Chrome Warnings
As of some time last year, Google Chrome started to phase out support for certificates with SHA-1 signatures. Since March 2015 users see a red warning notice in the address bar. This is a reputation...
View ArticleSending Mail without being considered SPAM
Most websites will want to send mails one day. Usually people go the simple way and configure their CMS or whatever else to send mail using php’s mail() function. This works fairly well but without...
View ArticleAWS CloudFormation Template Parameter Type Validation
AWS Cloudformation has some nice features to validate parameter values. One can define some predefined types like AWS::EC2::VPC::Id or simple types like Number or String. Always use the predefined...
View ArticleConsole JSON filtering with jq
Consider a long list of JSON objects where you want to filter for different criteria. jq can be a big help here. See the following data: [ { "lat": 50.559985870799224, "lng": 8.478780446017911,...
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Analyse dependencies in Scala sbt projects
One sometimes runs into problems with conflicting transitive dependencies. A dependency graph can help analyzing this. I use the sat-dependency-graph sbt plugin to help here. Just add to your...
View ArticleCopy and paste plain text in Mac OSX per default
I sometimes want to copy and paste content from the web which is styled in a proper way for the website but maybe not for the destination I want to paste it to. Imagine a Numbers table where you...
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Schöne Hüllen und Taschen für das iPhone 7 (Plus)
Apple hat das neue iPhone 7 vorgestellt. Auch wenn es nicht der revolutionärste Schritt ist und eher als Modellpflege des iPhone 6 zu verstehen ist, bietet es einige interessante Details. Mein Favorit...
View ArticleHomebridge Apple HomeKit Adapter Service
I’m actually testing on how to control things in a house or flat with Apple HomeKit. It seems to be a pretty nice solution as one would expect from apple but it takes time for the vendors to adopt....
View ArticleWorking with shape-files
Once upon a day I got in contact with shape files. This is a common format for GIS data like for example district borders. I got in contact which such data where I had to update a database with such...
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