Popular Content Management Systems vs. Security (WordPress, TYPO3, …)
The security of the most widely used web CMS put to the test. The Content Management Systems examined are: Drupal, Joomla!, Plone, TYPO3, and WordPress.
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Git Flow – Working Professionally with Git
Git is already an excellent version control system that allows distributed teams to work together very effectively. However, you can put the cherry on top by adding Git Flow, creating a …
SaaS Web Now Relies on Dedicated Private Cloud Infrastructure
SaaS Web has always focused on scalability and high availability through virtualization. Now we are taking it to the next level: the infrastructure is gradually being migrated to VMware …
WordPress: Creating Truly Custom Navigation with the Walker_Nav_Menu Class
It often happens that a website navigation should display more than just the page name, including related information such as the description, the featured image, or anything else...
ownCloud – Your Own Private Data Storage
ownCloud offers the possibility to easily and conveniently store your data on a virtual drive and access it from anywhere. Media files can also be played directly.
GEOwidget Now Open-Source with MIT License
GEOwidget is an online application that allows you to place any number of locations on an interactive Google Maps map. In just a few clicks (and without programming knowledge), users can …
WordPress, Designing Custom Templates: Individual Lengths for Article Excerpts
On the article page (index), one might want to adjust the length of the excerpt. However, on another page, one might also desire a preview—for instance, the 3 latest posts—with a more …
How to Create Automatically Encrypted MySQL Dumps
Everyone knows that backups are important—whether it is a system failure or you simply want to revert to an older state because an error was made. Backups are often handled by cron jobs.
How can you easily verify the integrity of installed files on a Debian system?
When using monitoring tools such as tripwire or rkhunter to monitor changes to installed files, the problem is that these tools cannot detect whether the files were changed by a regular …
Sign and Encrypt Emails with Enigmail and Thunderbird
With Enigmail, you can easily sign and/or encrypt your emails (including attachments). However, Enigmail is only available as a plug-in for Thunderbird and Seamonkey and requires the …
Apache Webserver rules, Nginx rocks
A recently published statistic from Netcraft confirms Apache's absolute top position among web servers worldwide. With almost 58% in January 2012, it is more than 4 times as widespread as …
Protecting Email Addresses from Scrapers with JavaScript or jQuery
If you publish your email address or those of others simply as HTML code, there is a risk that the addresses will be read automatically by scripts for the purpose of using them as …