For a current project both me and a colleague are working on a big API system that authenticates through an OAuth system. Normally, such an API does all the necessary OAuth checking, handling of tokens etc, but we wanted to have a system that actually offloads our authentication just the same way one could offload HTTPS traffic for keeping…
Joshua Thijssen is a freelance consultant, developer and trainer.
His daily work consists of maintaining code bases, working on different projects and helping other to achieve higher standards in both coding and thinking.
Server & Admin
Using vagrant and puppet to setup your symfony2 environment
As you may now by now, I’m a big fan of using Puppet for configuration management. Since the rise of virtualization, these applications are becoming one of the more dominant tools in a developers tool chain. Together with other tools, setting up a complete development environment with just a single command is not only reality,…
Why putting SSH on another port than 22 is bad idea
I see a lot of companies and users moving their SSH port to a non-privileged port like 2222 or even 36797. Now, there are few reasons why people would do this, all of them incorrect and dangerous. Some of those reasons I will not even mention, just to protect the people who actually use them…
Apache’s fallbackresource: your new .htaccess command
So probably you are aware I’m currently exploring the deeps on the Apache source internals. One of the discoveries I’ve made was a (for me unknown) command in mod_dir that will make your life a little bit easier: fallbackresource.
php 5.4 + htrouter: Your personal Apache 2.2 compatible server
Version 5.4 is soon to be launched as the next new stable release of PHP. Granted, there will not be major changes like we saw in version 5.3, but it will still have some nifty new features. Two of the most important ones: traits and the internal web server. This post is about the latter…
Creating MCollective clients in PHP – The hard way
If you haven’t heard of MCollective, think of.. The Borg.. Except without the laser-eye, or the spaceship-cube, or the scary voices. Come to think of it,.. it doesn’t really have anything to do with the Borg, except they are both a collective, and you are in charge.. just like the Borg-queen. And everything else is…
Book review: Pro Puppet
If you have read the book “Pulling strings with puppet”, a lot of this book might sound familiar to you already. Not really a strange thing since it’s from the same author. But because the book was written in 2007, a new update was in order and the new Pro Puppet book they’ve release so…
Top 10 Apache Top Level Projects
When saying Apache, most developers immediately think of a web server. And this of course is true, Apache httpd web server is the most used web server today and the number of users keep on growing every day. What not everybody knows, is that Apache is a foundation that hosts many other open source (web)…
Varnish in non-compiler environments
Last weekend I’ve visited the loadays conference where I sat in the presentation of Thijs Feryn’s “Varnish in action”. Even though most of the talk was pretty familiar for me personally, a real interesting question was raised from the audience: is it possible to run varnish in an environment where there is no compiler available.…
Speaking at Loadays and PhpBenelux Meetup
It’s going to be a few busy weeks for me concerning speaking at conferences and meetups. Not only will I be speaking at the March edition of the phpBenelux meetup, hosted at our Enrise office, but also at the Linux Open Administrator days in Antwerp, Belgium. Here I will be hosting 2 different talks:
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