Lionel Dricot: Élections, demandez le programme !
Les élections se rapprochent et les tests en ligne fleurissent, vous annonçant que vous êtes à 65% favorable à tel parti ou 43% à tel autre. Dans les médias, les candidats se gargarisent de leur...
View ArticleXavier Mertens: Heartbleed Impact in Belgium?
“Heartbleed“… Probably one of the top queries typed in search engines for a few weeks! Of course, I followed the story but I did not blog (yet) about it until today. Why repeat again and again what has...
View ArticleMattias Geniar: Debugging HTTP requests to PHP via the CLI
You're a sysadmin. You love the CLI. You use PHP. Surely, you should be able to troubleshoot PHP applications that are normally run via an HTTP server through the CLI as well, right? Well good news;...
View ArticlePhilip Van Hoof: Tracker supports volume management under a minimal environment
While Nemo Mobile OS doesn’t ship with udisks2 nor with the GLib/GIO GVfs2 modules that interact with it, we still wanted removable volume management working with the file indexer.It means that types...
View ArticleDieter Plaetinck: Metrics 2.0 now has its own website!
Metrics 2.0 started as a half-formal proposal and an implementation via graph-explorer, but is broad enough in scope that it deserves its own website, its own spec, its own community. That's why I...
View ArticleJoram Barrez: Running Activiti on JDK8
… just works! All the Activiti code is written with JDK6 compatibility in mind, so it’s no surprise it just works out of the box. Scripting There are however some subtle changes when you use Script...
View ArticleLionel Dricot: La mort de la presse ? Tant mieux !
La presse est en train d’agoniser. Et, entre nous, c’est une excellente chose.Je tiens à différencier deux aspects très différents du journalisme : l’information et l’analyse. Il est évident que...
View ArticleMattias Geniar: Whois at the CLI: get all IP ranges from an AS number
Just a note to my future self, in case I ever need it again. All you need is the AS number.$ whois -h whois.radb.net — '-i origin AS1234' | grep 'route:' route: 1.2.3.0/24 ... For instance, all...
View ArticleClaudio Ramirez: Review “Resilience and Reliability on AWS” by Jurg van...
When cloud technologies go beyond the hype, they can be very interesting. I have spent some time looking and evaluating different stacks and cloud providers. Amazon’s AWS is certainly the 800 pound...
View ArticleXavier Mertens: BSidesLondon 2014 Wrap-Up
The fourth edition of BSidesLondon is already over! I remember the first one in 2011, things have changed! Year after yesar, it looks more and more professional! As usual, here is my quick wrap-up. I...
View ArticleSerge van Ginderachter: The Linux-Training Project: Linux Fun is still alive
After some months (or rather way too many moons) I finally got around to typing ‘git add’ and ‘git push’ a couple of times. The result is about one hundred new pages and many additions (and typo fixes)...
View ArticleWouter Verhelst: Code of Conduct accepted
It's taken a while to get here, but the code of conduct that I set out to produce about a year ago now has been voted on. The result which has been released earlier this week is that the code of...
View ArticleLes Jeudis du Libre: Mons, le 15 mai : echo “Java” | sed ‘s/Jav/Scal/’ (le...
Ce jeudi 15 mai 2014 à 19h se déroulera la 29ème séance montoise des Jeudis du Libre de Belgique.Le sujet de cette séance : echo “Java” | sed ‘s/Jav/Scal/’Thématique : ProgrammationPublic :...
View ArticleFrank Goossens: PHP HTML parsing performance shootout; regex vs DOM
As I wrote earlier an Autoptimize user proposed to switch from regular expression based script & style extraction to using native PHP DOM functions (optionally with xpath). I created a small...
View ArticleJan Vansteenkiste: Diffing gems in GIT.
Recently, I’ve been doing some patching on fpm and today I also started writing some tests for the changes I made. One change required that the gem in the repository used for testing had a bin in it so...
View ArticleRuben Vermeersch: Release Notes: Apr 2014
What’s the point of releasing open-source code when nobody knows about it? In “Release Notes” I give a round-up of recent open-source activities.Lots of small bugfixes left and right this month, but...
View ArticleLionel Dricot: Le minibus et la discothèque
Tous les matins, Gérard se mettait au volant de son minibus et parcourait les rues de la ville, depuis les lointains faubourgs aux quartiers chics du centre-ville. Lorsqu’un piéton lui faisait un signe...
View ArticleDries Buytaert: Acquia drops non-compete clauses
Topic: BusinessAcquiaIn a world where innovation is only accelerating, shackling employees with non-competes doesn't make sense anymore. At Acquia, we believe that innovation is about openness and...
View ArticleMattias Geniar: OpenSSL: validate that certificate matches / signs the...
You could probably just try to install your new certificate and private key, reload your webserver config, and see if it works. But that's not very convenient if you want to validate your private key...
View ArticleWouter Verhelst: 36
Next tuesday is my birthday. Since it's been a while since I last celebrated that, and since it's been a while since I last made some waffles, I decided to combine those two issues and do a waffle...
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