Dries Buytaert: White House deepens its commitment to Open Source
Yesterday, the White House announced a plan to deepen its commitment to open source. Under this plan, new, custom-developed government software must be made available for use across other federal...
View ArticleFrank Goossens: Clam AV flagging CSS as Html.Exploit.CVE_2016_0108
So I had a bit of a scare yesterday, when a couple of users posted on the Autoptimize support forum that their hoster warned them about malware in autoptimized CSS-file. ClamAV flagged those files as...
View ArticleMattias Geniar: Nginx Proxy: upstream sent too big header while reading...
The post Nginx Proxy: upstream sent too big header while reading response header from upstream appeared first on ma.ttias.be.If you're running an Nginx proxy configuration, you can run into the...
View ArticlePhilip Van Hoof: RE: President Obama benadrukt noodzaak van een...
‘t ga hier overWe leggen in België al behoorlijk wat verantwoordelijkheid over onze bezittingen bij de notaris. Hij maakte de eigendomsakte van uw huis op, over de erfdienstbaarheid van uw grond, uw...
View ArticleMattias Geniar: Drupal’s itok parameters explained and a Varnish workaround...
The post Drupal’s itok parameters explained and a Varnish workaround for different backends appeared first on ma.ttias.be.Ever since the Drupal 7.20 update, a new system was introduced to allow the...
View ArticleDieter Plaetinck: 25 Graphite, Grafana and statsd gotchas
This is a crosspost of an article I wrote on the raintank.io blog For several years I’ve worked with Graphite, Grafana and statsd on a daily basis and have been participating in the community. All...
View ArticleFrank Goossens: Why would you still be on PHP 5.2?
For Autoptimize 2.0.1 I declared a pretty complex regex to extract font-face’s from CSS using the nowdoc-syntax which is supported from PHP 5.3 onwards. Taking into account that the first PHP 5.2...
View ArticleDries Buytaert: A "MAP" for accelerating Drupal 8 adoption
Contributed modules in Drupal deliver the functionality and innovation proprietary content management solutions simply can't match. With every new version of Drupal comes the need to quickly move...
View ArticleMattias Geniar: Remote Code Execution in all git versions (client + server) <...
The post Remote Code Execution in all git versions (client + server) < 2.7.1: CVE-2016-2324, CVE-2016‑2315 appeared first on ma.ttias.be.This has the potential to be huge: server and client side...
View ArticleWouter Verhelst: Planet Grep now with Responsive design
If you're reading this through Planet Grep, you may notice that the site's layout has been overhauled. The old design, which had just celebrated its 10th birthday, was starting to show its age. For...
View ArticleDries Buytaert: Can we save the open web?
The web felt very different fifteen years ago, when I founded Drupal. Just 7 percent of the population had internet access, there were only around 20 million websites, and Google was a small, private...
View ArticleMattias Geniar: The “.well-known” directory on webservers (aka: RFC 5785)
The post The “.well-known” directory on webservers (aka: RFC 5785) appeared first on ma.ttias.be.I first came across the concept of the directory named '.well-known' when automating Let's Encrypt, the...
View ArticleMattias Geniar: Set Access-Control-Allow-Origin (CORS) headers in Apache...
The post Set Access-Control-Allow-Origin (CORS) headers in Apache vhost or htaccess appeared first on ma.ttias.be.Here's a quicky copy/paste you can use when you need to set Access-Control-Allow-Origin...
View ArticleMattias Geniar: Pre-compress content for Apache to avoid compressing on every...
The post Pre-compress content for Apache to avoid compressing on every request appeared first on ma.ttias.be.Every time you request a CSS, JavaScript, HTML, ... file, the webserver will most likely...
View ArticleFrank Goossens: Music from Our Tube: Carlos Nino & Miguel Atwood-Ferguson...
In the latest Ghostdogradio radioshow there was one particular track which I immediately fell in love with; The Life Force Trio’s Alice, assumed to be a tribute to Alice Coltrane by The Life Force Trio...
View ArticlePhilip Van Hoof: Up next: PADI master diver
A year or so after my PADI rescue, my diving club has convinced me to wake up about twelve times early in the morning on Saturday, to get me trained to become a PADI master diver.The jokers in my club...
View ArticleMattias Geniar: Example: set an advanced parameter value in VMware via...
The post Example: set an advanced parameter value in VMware via vSphere PowerCLI appeared first on ma.ttias.be.If you manage any kind of VMware environment, chances are you've heard of the vSphere...
View ArticleDries Buytaert: Breakfast at Acquia
Last week, Acquia's executive team prepared breakfast for the 300 or so employees in our Boston office. It was a lot of fun. A tradition that we started a few years ago to thank everyone for their...
View ArticleFrank Goossens: Warning WordPress plugin users about their old PHP
After my initial disbelief about the amount of WordPress installations still on the slow and vulnerable PHP 5.2.17 (or older), I decided to warn users of my plugin with an non-dismissable warning on...
View ArticleDries Buytaert: How should you decouple Drupal?
With RESTful web services in Drupal 8 core, Drupal can function as an API-first back end serving browser applications, native applications on mobile devices, in-store displays, even in-flight...
View Article