Hackvalue - Tales from the trenches of specialized web hosting and development
Hackvalue is the corporate blog of Loco, a company that does lots of
interesting stuff gravitating around Free and Open Source software and
licensing, web development, and anything else that we find
interesting.
In this particular part of the blog all content is English,
but if you have no problems reading Dutch, then the Dutch part of this blog might also be interesting for
you. It caters to a slightly different crowd.
If you're wondering why we use
the name Hackvalue, please read the FAQ.
Copying subversion repositories with history using svnsync
Tags: administration, development, subversion
Joor Loohuis, October 22, 2010, 7408 views.
Occasionally it is necessary to make a copy of a subversion repository, while preserving the revision history. Sometimes you need to do this without shell access to the server. In those cases, svnsync may solve your problem.
Security through obscurity with HTTP Basic Authentication
Tags: authentication, HTTP, security, web
Joor Loohuis, October 17, 2010, 3307 views.
One of the undying fallacies of web development is that an application can be secured by requiring that the users authenticate themselves using HTTP Basic Authentication. We regularly have to explain to developers how easy it is to extract the authentication data from a request. So it's probably useful to put this down in writing for future reference.
A Google Map with company logo and travel directions using jQuery
Tags: Google maps, JavaScript, jQuery, travel directions, web, webdesign
Joor Loohuis, September 19, 2010, 4536 views.
Our article describing how to set up a Google Map with a company logo and travel directions proves to be popular. One question we've received a few times involves using jQuery in stead of Prototype, so in this article we provide the jQuery version.
Filtering mail server side with Sieve, part 1
Tags: administration, mail, sieve
Armijn Hemel, August 31, 2010, 3762 views.
Like us, you might receive a lot of mail and read it from different locations, using different mail programs, on different kinds of devices, including mobile. If not all mail is relevant at all times, you might want to look at server side filtering instead of client side filtering.
Next step MySQL: using views to improve performance
Tags: mysql, web, webdevelopment
Joor Loohuis, August 14, 2010, 8874 views.
When developers start using MySQL as a storage backend, they quickly find out how to insert, update, delete, and retrieve data. But often enough, progress tends to stop there, and problems arise when an application needs to scale. This article demonstrates how creating views may be a life saver for an underperforming application.
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