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Using a disk image is very easy: download the file, mount it through a so-called “loopback” device and your OS will see the image as it was an real harddisk, CDR or DVD.

If you haven’t heard of MCollective, think of..

If you have read the book “Pulling strings with puppet”, a lot of this book might sound familiar to you already.

I got this book as a present from last year’s PFZ workshop day (thanks again guys), and is filled with 128 (get it?)

I bought this book even before I’ve ever installed vSphere, and still it’s comprehensible.

If repetition is the key to learning, you will learn a lot from this book.

Not a lot of updates lately, but by no means I’m sitting still.

REST is hot!

When saying Apache, most developers immediately think of a web server.

How cool is my job?

So there you are, you want to install some tool or application that didn’t come in a package, or you want to use the latest version.

During some reading up on Dean Wilson’s blog, I stumbled upon his Pragmatic Investment Plans.

Last weekend I’ve visited the Loadays conference where I sat in the presentation of Thijs Feryn’s “Varnish in action”.

Question: how can a simple question asked by a colleague turn into a blog post?

Memory is something (almost) no computer can do without.

What do you get when you cross the vi editor with Keanu Reeve’s “The Matrix”?

It’s going to be a few busy weeks for me concerning speaking at conferences and meetups.

More good news: I’ve been invited to speak at the 4developers conference on april 4th in warschau, Poland.

Yesterday the February edition of php|architect came out.

TCP is one of the core protocols for the TCP/IP suite.

So yesterday I’ve finally received my Arduino Mega.

Memcache is a pretty well-known system inside the web-community and for a good reason.

The thing everybody (should) know is that when you want to secure passwords in - let’s say - a database, you have to hash to them.

I have to admit it: grew up with unix “the wrong way”.

As you might know, the PHPBenelux Conference 2011 is right around the corner.

Linux, and other unices have an excellent system to centralize log events.

Recently, my colleague Jeroen van Dijk needed to extend (or better yet: override) the accept()* method for the RegexIterator.

From time to time I get amazed how people can setup their production servers.

If you maintain a tecnhnical programmers blog, you occasionaly need to post code snippets.

I’ve posted a blog at the @enrise techblog about enhancing SPL’s appenditerator.

When asking what THE advantage of InnoDB over other MySQL engines like MyISAM is, then 9 out of 10 times the answer will be that InnoDB supports transactions.

I was on the verge of creating a post about the TSL/SSL handshaking, when I discovered a blogpost about the very same subject.

This post is not so much for developers as it is for the managers and bosses from those developers.

Autoincrement is sometimes called a “poor-man-sequence”.

Oauth is a very popular authentication mechanism used for a lot of web applications.

For the readers who get the Aaron Sorkin reference in the title, do not be alarmed: this will NOT be my final blog post, just the last of the season.

Today I stumbled across an odd problem which took me about an hour to figure out what was going on.

SSL and virtualhosting on 1 IP address?

Did you know you can write a webserver in awk or that sed supports conditional jumps?

Today I overheard two colleagues discussing one of my favorite subjects: encryption.

Most people I know use sed for simple and fast translation of some keyword in files.

I’ve just uploaded the new slides for my Public Key Cryptography 101 presentation.

I sometimes hear: “make everything utf-8 in your database, and all will be fine”.

Today I’ve passed the Zend Framework Certification exam and with that I can finally close my new years resolution for 2010: doing 12 (tech related) exams in 2010.

I occasionally get into discussions where I find that other lack some basic understanding of the elementary systems which he or she has to work with everyday.

Most developers who are working at the command line on a Linux system know the “basic” commands: ls, cd, cat, tail, head, sort, grep, find and others.

During this blog post I will talk about creating your own custom package repository.

At almost every software company I’ve been involved in, used custom-made tools for various tasks.

Today I have pushed the v1.6 release of the Joind.in Android app to the market.

A friend of mine posted a tweet about problems with Zend Guard just the other day.