Archive for February, 2009

A Simple PHP Google Sitemap Generator

February 26, 2009 by marco · Comments Off
Filed under: Read-Write-Web, Snippets, Tools, XML 
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I just hacked together a very simple class and CLI script to help me generate Google sitemap XML on a daily basis using PHP. If you have not yet heard of it: Google sitemaps help you promote your content if you have certain deep links that only show up if a visitor for example performs [...]

Upgrade PHP5 with an alternative sources.list on Debian etch

February 20, 2009 by marco · Comments Off
Filed under: Linux, Problems, Serverstuff 
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I was having trouble with a server running Debian 4.0 (etch). Using the standard sources in the /etc/apt/sources.list the supported PHP5 version was 5.2.0-8+etch13 which contained a very annoying bug for my application. A daily running script – let’s call it the Importer – regularly exited randomly with a “Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated [...]

Etherpad

February 15, 2009 by marco · Comments Off
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EtherPad is a free webbsased editor which lets people remotely and simultaneously edit the same text document. Just click ‘Create new Pad‘ and you see the URL which you can send to your remote friend(s). Use it for group development on code snippets, catch realtime meeting minutes, brainstorming ideas and many things more… Thanks AppJet [...]

Clickjacking

February 15, 2009 by marco · Comments Off
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Today I learned a new term from the web security section – Clickjacking – which I would like to make you aware of. To see it in action, please visit the blog post of Flash developer Guy Aharonovsky, where he demonstrates in a video how a user unintentionally changes his browser’s security settings while playing [...]