Blogpost archive
This is a list of all my blogposts. They range from highly technical to entry level, from Linux to PHP and server management.
If you have an interesting topic to write about, reach out and I'll see what I can do.
2015-01
- PHP Benelux 2015: Day One
- Meet Microsoft’s Project Spartan, The New IE6
- Security Panel Lands In Firefox 37
- Nginx sets HTTP 200 OK on PHP-FPM parse errors
- The Frontpage of Hacker News: Stats, Graphs & Some Analysis
- PHP 6: The Missing Version Number
- A good week for this blog!
- PHP7 To Remove Deprecated Functionality
- Learning systemd
- Does SDPY (or HTTP/2) Actually Help?
- Enable HTTP/2 support in Chrome
- Audi’s Cruise Control “>=” Bug
- View the HTTP/SPDY/HTTP2 Protocol in Google Chrome
- Recent OpenSSL Security Advisories Are a Good Thing
- Architecting Websites For The HTTP/2 Era
- Flush all the content from Memcached via the CLI
- Making Standard Resources Overwritable In Your Own Puppet Modules
- PHP’s CVE vulnerabilities are irrelevant
2014-12
- The (unexpected?) workload associated with migrating to HHVM
- The 2014 Blog in Numbers
- Compiling from source faster: multi-threading in `make`
- The Infinite File Downloader
- Undoing Years of Optimisations With HTTP/2
- Testing Puppet Resources at the CLI
- The Surprising Mixed Content Handling on SSL/HTTPS Enabled Websites
- MongoDB startup: /usr/bin/dirname: extra operand ‘2>&1.pid’
- Replacing Software Stacks Is Never The Solution
- Explicitly Approving (Whitelisting) Cookies in Varnish With Libvmod-Cookie
- List The Files In A Yum/RPM Package
- Setting HTTPS $_SERVER variables in PHP-FPM with Nginx
- Azure Cloud Outage Root Cause Analysis
- Nginx & SPDY error: net::ERR_SPDY_PROTOCOL_ERROR
- PHP’s OPcache and Symlink-based Deploys
- Force Redirect From HTTP to HTTPs On A Custom Port in Nginx
- Enable SPDY in Nginx on CentOS 6
- Presentation: Managing Zabbix Hosts with Puppet’s Config Management
- Varnish FetchError http first read error: -1 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable)
- Reload Varnish VCL without losing cache data
- Combine Apache’s HTTP authentication with X-Forwarded-For IP whitelisting in Varnish
- Chrome To Explicitly Mark HTTP Connections As Non-Secure
- Varnish tip: see which cookies are being stripped in your VCL
- Generate PHP core dumps on segfaults in PHP-FPM
- The Real Cost of the “S” in HTTPS
- Varnish FetchError: straight insufficient bytes
- PHP 5.5 Opcache Settings
- Apache’s mod_fastcgi and mod_deflate troubles
- A plea for backwards compatibility breaks in PHP7
- Asynchronous PHP
- Puppet: could not prefetch yumrepo provider ‘inifile’: Section is already defined, cannot redefine
- Automating the Unknown
- On Timing Attacks in PHP
2014-11
- The Next-Generation PHP Server Stack For 2015
- Devuan, the Debian Fork
- Drupal 7.33 performance penalty
- Rebuilding the yum RPM database
- Search yum for the content of a package
- StartDBSyncers in Zabbix
- Test Gzip Compression of Site via Curl
- Varnish FetchError: Gunzip+ESI Failed at the very end
- Debugging Performance Problems With Zabbix Internal Items
- Remove Orphaned Data From Zabbix’s MySQL Tables
- Remote Code Execution via ‘less’ on Linux Boxes
- Presentation: DNSSEC, The Good, The Bad & The Secure
- Presentation: Mobile Zabbix, Why Mobile Matters (MoZBX)
- CPU Flame Graphs
- Enable MySQL’s slow query log without a restart
- The PHP circle: from Apache to Nginx and back
- Yet Another Microsoft Windows CVE: Local Privilege Escalation MS14-068
- Make HTTPerf use a proxy for connections
- A Certificate Authority to Encrypt the Entire Web
- Follow-up: 3 years of automation with Puppet
- REST API best practices and versioning
- The Chocolatey Kickstarter: Making Windows More Like Linux
- Remove a single iptables rule
- 3 Years of Puppet Config Management: lessons learned
- Clear APC cache in PHP
- Running Kali Linux as a Vagrant Box (virtual machine)
- Microsofts Open Source Strategy
- Benchmarking the performance of ‘Wordfence’, a WordPress plugin
- Slow login/DNS via Active Directory on OSX Mavericks and Yosemite (.local domains)
- Microsoft SSL/TLS vulnerability MS14-066
- Firefox Developer Edition released
- A collection of PHP exploit scripts
- Behind the scenes at World of Warcraft: the datacenter tech