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Blog Resurected

23. April 2020

I’ll be Back Baby Since months, no years, I desired to start writing blog posts again. I think I have to say some things some times. That’s the reason why I resurrected my blog. This involved some Terraform and Ansible hacking to get it run. I also updated the theming. I decided to choose one without JavaScript to save your bandwidth.

Interim Move to Jekyll and GitHub

16. February 2018

Roundabout two years ago I decided to get rid of Wordpress and the full stack of PHP and MySQL. About my reasons for this decision I’ve blogged here. As a result I decided to write my own simple blog solution: Uberblog. This was a weekend project which served me well, until I decided to reinstall my root server from scratch. Then the hassle with Ruby, Gems and dependency versions started. It was so much fiddling to get these quite simple Ruby scripts running again with their dependencies.…

Passenger On Board

7. April 2012

In my first approach I was running the Sinatra app for the REST API of my blog (for ratings etc.) from command line. This has the drawback that the HTTP daemon integrated in Sinatra listens on a different port than the rest of the blog. This leads to same origin problems when ajaxing the REST API. To circumvent this I’ve used a small proxy script as a workaround. But now I’ve found Passenger (aka.…

Uberblog 1.0

1. April 2012

Two weeks ago I announced that I’ll no longer use Wordpress but a more simple self programmed solution. Now I’m at the point that I can say: I’ve a version with all features I need. The version 1.0. Why did I choose this way? As described in my former post I’ve used Wordpress quite a long time. And I don’t want to rant too much about Wordpress, PHP and the whole universe.…

Fuck Of Wordpress

18. March 2012

Wordpress was my first blog software. I used it since roundabout six years now. Writing an own plugin for my blog was one of my first steps learning PHP. After my experiences with Java 1.4 and MS Visual C++ 6.0 from 2002 until 2005 I came over to the web scripting area and got in touch with PHP. The new OOP features and the short round trip time I liked.…

Only SSL access to my blog

30. December 2011

Some time ago I configured my blog to serve both HTTP and HTTPS. From now on I will redirect all non-SSL requests permanently to HTTPS. The reason is that no one access the login page without SSL by accident. If you encounter any problems please let me know. Unless you have installed the CAcert root certificates in your browser, you will become a warning about my server’s certificate. To prevent this install the root certificates from here.…