I read a lot of news from the 20 min online website using the 20 min online .ch app for iOS. Every now and then, people start commenting the articles (and leave behind a lot of silly comments). My goal was to get the URL where this data (the comments) is loaded from (for some… Continue reading Reverse engineer an iOS App with Wireshark
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Play Snake while a youtube video is loading
When you see the youtube loading circle, make sure the focus is on the flashplayer (click it if not) and hit any arrow-key, and enjoy a game of snake.
That’s how to drink coffee
I won a voucher for a mug with an arbitrary printing and as a “The Office” fan, the decision was easy. Et voilà (inspired by the original): Some more:
My first open source project
I recently released my old, long-term project called survey-rocket (a simple online survey tool) to google code. I started to refactor the code to make it more readable and maintainable. Although I invested many hours, there is still a long way to go until it can be considered good code. Basically I used this project… Continue reading My first open source project
Speed up your website served by apache httpd in 2 mins
Slow website? Have you tried turning on file compression? If not, this tweak can speed up your website in an instant. The apache documentation of the mod_deflate is one way to go. Add the following piece of configuration (that I have just copy-pasted from the apache docs website) to your virtual host config (it requires… Continue reading Speed up your website served by apache httpd in 2 mins
Debain: run script on startup
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/28
Add tools.jar to maven repository
A way to fix the following error: 6/23/12 1:50:22 PM CEST: Missing artifact com.sun:tools:jar:1.4.2:compile The tools.jar is part of all JDK’s and therefore there is no need to fetch this dependency from any repo. Therefore the easiest thing is to add this jar to the local repository. Locate the tools.jar in the JDK and run… Continue reading Add tools.jar to maven repository
The Taj Mahal Palace Hotel Pool Site, Mumbai, India
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zhongtan lu / 中潭路 – now and then
Back in Shanghai and in zhongtan road in April 2012, I was wondering if and how it changed… Lot of things changed. The buildings got renovated, restaurants got refurnished, a Starbucks moved in. The site could be in any other western city. The only constant seems to be the beloved street food, found after sunset at… Continue reading zhongtan lu / 中潭路 – now and then
captcha protect your website using Apache’s mod_rewrite to expel Google, Facebook and Co.
Problem: Yor website has three sources of traffic: SOMEONE: people browsing the web you don’t know FRIENDS: your friends MACHINES: search engines, facebook (when a link is posted, the content of the link is fetched by Facebook), etc. You want that your FRIENDS have full access to your website, whereas MACHINES should not. The SOMEONEs… Continue reading captcha protect your website using Apache’s mod_rewrite to expel Google, Facebook and Co.