Ruby has been lying around for a while now, and I did not take the time to discover it yet… Since I installed Octopress, I’ve been looking more and more into the source files of this system. Am I falling for ruby? Don’t know, but it definitely looks like a very interesting language!
Setting up HTTP cache and gzip with nginx
Spending a little time on the PageSpeed utility from Google made me realize that I could probably finetune my webserver to serve pages even faster :) The two main tracks were 1) enable gzip compression and 2) use HTTP caching.
Bugfix in APServiceBox
Today I spotted a memory-related bug in the APServiceBox library. That bug would never occur when the process is linked to a debugger, and was therefore stealth during unit-testing…
There, I fixed it! It is highly recommended to grab the latest version from the github repository.
Open OVA files with Parallels
Today a friend of mine told me about something nice: Exploit Exercises. While I don’t feel like a black hat hacker, I believe this kind of challenge is a good way to learn more in-depth. Exploit Exercises provide linux virtual machines in OVA files, which are not that easy to open with Parallels Desktop…
XCode4 hell: PBXFileReference buildPhase
We’re used to have troubles with the .xcodeproj file. This file actually behaves pretty bad when several people are working on the same project, stored in SVN. This is usually quite easy to solve, but yesterday it went worse…