Creates a certificate which is valid for 10 years: openssl req -nodes -x509 -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout key.pem -out cert.pem -days 3650
Category: Web
Need Internet Explorer in OSX?
Great article: http://osxdaily.com/2011/09/04/internet-explorer-for-mac-ie7-ie8-ie-9-free/
Accepting Credit Cards on Your Website
Great resource: http://www.thesitewizard.com/archive/creditcards.shtml
Integrate Amazon SQS Messaging with Spring
http://nevado.skyscreamer.org/quickstart.html
Reverse engineer an iOS App with Wireshark
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]