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.
2015-01
- GHOST: critical glibc update (CVE-2015-0235) in gethostbyname() calls
- The PHP Paradox
- PHP Benelux 2015 Unconference Schedule Saturday
- 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