Janik von Rotz

Install HHVM

This post is part of my Your own Virtual Private Server hosting solution project.
Get the latest version of this article here: https://gist.github.com/10816750.

Introduction

HHVM is an open-source virtual machine designed for executing programs written in Hack and PHP. HHVM uses a just-in-time (JIT) compilation approach to achieve superior performance while maintaining the development flexibility that PHP provides.

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Disable WordPress plugins manually

With the WordPress 3.9 Update I also received several plugin updates for my blogs.

One Update was for WP-Piwik. As I’ve updated the plugin I got several errors and the site become unreachable.

So the only way the to disable this malicious plugin was either via ftp or with phpMyAdmin.

I’ve decided to do it with phpMyAdmin.

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Install WPScan

This post is part of my Your own Virtual Private Server hosting solution project.
Get the latest version of this article here: https://gist.github.com/11214650.

Introduction

WPScan is a black box WordPress vulnerability scanner.

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Prevent a lot of spam on your next php form with this simple trick

Spam bots were parsing websites html to code and searching for form patterns. What they luckily don’t do in most cases is running javascript or applying css code. This behaviour is a good way to tell a human from a spambot apart.

Here is a simple example of how to make use of this behaviour to prevent a lot of spam.

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Install Ruby and RubyGems with RVM

This post is part of my Your own Virtual Private Server hosting solution project. Get the latest version of this article here: https://gist.github.com/11215397.

Introduction

Ruby is a dynamic, open source programming language with a focus on simplicity and productivity. To install Ruby we are going to use RVM (Ruby Version Manager). This installation differs from other as you don’t run it with user privilegs, that means no more sudoing for this guide.

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O3M 38 - Avec Plaisir (Dance, House)

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Unattended Encrypted Incremental Backup to Amazon S3

This post is part of my Your own Virtual Private Server hosting solution project.
Get the latest version of this article here: https://gist.github.com/9410478.

Introduction

For this task we are going to configure a duplicity script wrapper. Unregarded of the installation instructions it’s expected that you have already signed up for an Amazon account and know how to use their services.

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Project Naptha - OCR well done

On the Project Naptha homepage you can download a Google chrome extension that extends your browsers text copy function.

With the said extension you can copy text within images. Naptha recognises text inside images in real-time.

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Migrate Piwik website

This post is part of my Your own Virtual Private Server hosting solution project.
Get the latest version of this article here: https://gist.github.com/9640572.

Introduction

This article assumes you’re going to move an exisiting piwik website from one server to another.

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Limitations and workarounds for managed metadata navigation for multiple site collections

With SharePoint 2013 you can create a managed metadata navigation and share it across web applications and site collections.

But there’s an ugly limitation for site collections.

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