twobee's blog

Cannot send session cookie ...

twobee — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 10:19:10 +0000

Oh well,

after wasting several of hours, I finally found out whats wrong with my ‘code’.
Here in the office I am forced to use Notepad++, which is writing UTF-8
encoded files by default WITH a so-called BOM.

Therefore sometimes the line `I haven’t changed anything` is correct, because your editor did.

If you have a BOM in your file, it’s the first output and therefore PHP cannot
initialize the session. Which is very bad if you sticked to sessions, as I am, because
I do write an e-commerce solution again.

- twobee

(Update: Added some hyperlinks)

Good work pays out!

twobee — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:21:29 +0000

Some days ago I was asked by Tim Gerundt, the new project maintainer of NOCC Webmail¹, if I want to actively help out the project as new official developer.

Yay!!! I agreed. \o/

After I finally got internet via UMTS to my new apartment and I got the connection routed to my VMWARE, I am ready to start. Thanks to trash for the help with service tunneling.

Upcoming additions to NOCC¹ will be:

- twobee

[1] NOCC Homepage
[2] NOCC: Sourceforge

Encrypt your messages!

twobee — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:34:27 +0000

The odyssey to find a message encryption for Miranda IM finally got to an end. After we had an outdated¹ GPG message plugin for years, we now got a plugin called SecureIM² which is supporting AES192, PGP and GPG message encryption.

The most other OSS IMs already have various plugins to support message encryption, but most of them are still only for Linux or itself not that handy like Miranda IM for Windows is.

[1] GnuPG Plugin
[2] SecureIM

Watching TV with SUN

twobee — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 09:14:50 +0000

In Switzerlands Sun Microsytems office will be held an event on the 19th June about Web 2.0 and Open Source in Startups.

There is a very funny addition to the agenda of this event, as you all may know, there is at the moment the EURO’08 in Austria and Switzerland.

If the page is gone, I have prepared a screenshot for you. ;-)

Have fun,

twobee.

SourceForge.net changes privacy statement

twobee — Wed, 21 May 2008 15:49:17 +0000

Our ‘friends’ of SourceForge.net have changed their current privacy statement, but who of us would know the differrence?

No problem, I made a unified patch for myself to see the differences and I would like to share it with the world. :-)

Enjoy!

References:

Miles for more!

twobee — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 20:16:25 +0000

Today I accidently had a look at Dries Buytaert (the founder of Drupal) blog and discovered that end of August the DrupalCon is happening in Europe!

As someone who have to work fulltime with Drupal, it will be not a bad idea to travel to Hungary and be part of the DrupalCon.

Microsofts newest web standard is on the run.

twobee — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:26:56 +0000

According to several news sites, Microsoft did it again.

Internet Explorer 8 is here, the Microsofts newest offspring for their attempt to create a new ~~world order … ehrm … web standard~~ web browser.

Weeee! OTR for Miranda IM

twobee — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 03:36:54 +0000

After some confusion, because http://addons.miranda-im.org/ is down, I had a look at the forums for a ‘solution’. And accidently found an OTR plugin¹ for Miranda IM.

After several of years, the waiting has an end and something for message encryption finally appeared. ;-D

[1] OTR Plugin for Miranda IM

Let's bomb Texas! They have oil too!

twobee — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 01:05:31 +0000

I was exploring my old files and I found a screenshot I’ve made in 2003 off a description of an emule server ….

Sorry, I wouldn’t keep it back ;-)

Enjoy! ;-)

Torturing Apache for Dummies: .htaccess (Part 2 - The Solution)

twobee — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 11:59:27 +0000

A short article how to take the pain from your Apache by extracting a generic Rewrite Ruleset from a ‘large’ .htaccess and put it to the server configuration, but keeping it ‘dynamic’.

Read the whole story.

Torturing Apache for Dummies: .htaccess

twobee — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 02:06:14 +0000

The usage of .htaccess files is totally overrated these days, it is often used for things it’s orginally not intended for, like complex RewriteCond and RewriteRule sets.
In this article I will show you how not to use a .htaccess, with some benchmarking and what will happen to a strong webserver when it has to process a large .htaccess file.

Read the whole story. or go straight to Part 2 – The Solution

How to put a website in maintenance mode, for anyone else, except yourself?

twobee — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:38:07 +0000

Hello everyone,

my first topic on nrrd.de is about putting a website in maintenance mode, not usuable for anyone except you.