This years Google Code-in contest is now already ended and the preparations for the final steps is nearly finished, so that the best students of the program can be announced in the public by Google. […]
The stable (and/or LTS) release of a software should be used by third party customers, who wants a stable enough software, and don’t want to have high maintenance costs for continous updates, but a specific […]
So, some days ago I found this comic: http://www.commitstrip.com/en/2017/01/16/nice-try/ So, yes, now something embarrassing: one of my servers nearly could be one of these servers. The background: Recently I switched from a file based logging […]
Since I’ve switched from manual configuring my servers to using puppet as a configuration management tool I had one bigger problem (at least one I still have). I use monit to monitor my servers and get notified when something […]
The MediaWiki JobQueue. A really powerful and great opportunity for both, wiki administrators and users and especially for developers who want to perform asynchronus tasks that take a long time. By default, MediaWiki uses the […]
“Do you have an app?” This questions is and will become more important when nearly half of your website-traffic is generated by mobile phones. While it’s very easy to get a mobile optimized version of […]