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Getting Around Entering a SSL Passphrase when Restarting Apache
Reloading the Apache httpd gracefully by reloading configs only. This is hella useful if your server has SSL VHosts with passwords that you don’t know. Continue reading
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Gawker: How not to handle a security breach
Gawker. Poor bastards. Hopefully this is a good lesson to all the other arrogant pricks on the web. Opinions aside, I think this is a textbook example of how not to handle a serious breach. The Real Lessons Of Gawker’s … Continue reading
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Blueboxing, Revisited
I just had one hell of a nostalgic moment after watching the two videos below on blueboxing. Steve Jobs has a wonderful way with words, but the most notable quote in this video is clearly: If we hadn’t made Blue … Continue reading
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Traffic Jam
Sorry for going dark, but as all of you know, there are only two reasons for me doing so: intense work and travel. As you can see below, there wasn’t much work going on. This is what a traffic jam … Continue reading
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Come See Me Speak at The Rich Web Experience
Who’s going to be in FL this year? You should come see me speak at the 2010 Rich Web Experience! I’ll be giving several talks and probably giving a workshop too. No Fluff Just Stuff is pleased to announce The 2010 … Continue reading
The Improving State of Stock Trading APIs
I read an article today on the ProgrammableWeb blog that lead me into a search for something I have been wondering about for many years now: where he hell are all the stock trading APIs? You can imagine how happy I … Continue reading
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Thoughts on Editors
Sometimes I wonder if it’s just me or if there are others like me out there… I’m so promiscuous with my editors its not even funny. I’ll use one editor for one task and switch to another editor to do … Continue reading
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