I use MediaWiki as a personal note-taking, documentation and code snippet storage system. This was started as an experiment, but a wiki proved to be a decent solution for the above tasks. This is a small checklist, mainly for my own reference, to follow when upgrading MediaWiki.

ModSecurity is an Apache module which adds an extra layer of security by analyzing client requests before they are processed by Apache and, furthermore, by analyzing server responses after a request has been processed. This article intends to be a ModSecurity overview and to provide the reader with the basic knowledge about the most important directives. For detailed information refer to the ModSecurity Documentation.

Patrick Chanezon explains via an example how to create a google calendar entry, through the Google API, by using the httplib2 and the cElementTree modules. Note that the version of httplib2, which supports GoogleLogin, exists only in the SVN..

This is a raw list of the HTTP Status Codes that I’d like to have handy. They have been grep-ed directly from the RFC2616, section 10.

I’ve been checking the web server logs lately seeking for a way to track down the remote hosts that regularly submit, or try to submit, spam comments massively. Grep-ing the logs is no fun at all, so I wrote a small BASH script to do the dirty work for me. Well, this one was written [...]

Today, while searching the web for any potential extra Epiphany plugins, I came accross a couple of blog posts, which, when combined together, they make a great review of my beloved web browser. Until today, I thought that falling upon Epiphany reviews was one of the rarest things to happen to me, so I decided [...]

If you ever need help with CSS, consider visiting the following web sites. They contain plenty of information, tutorials and examples. I, as an amateur web designer, have benefited a lot from reading them.

This plugin intends to become the only tool a user will need in order to set a Creative Commons License for a WordPress blog and control the inclusion or display of the license information into the blog pages or the syndication feeds. All configuration is done from a page in the administration panel.

AWstats is a free, popular log analyzer, released under the GPL. It can generate advanced graphical statistics from web, streaming, ftp or mail server log files. This document is not intended to be a review, but rather a quick installation and configuration guide for a specific web site, in order to have as accurate statistical data as possible for use in your traffic analysis reports.

I’ve written this script so that I can download multiple files of the same type from a web page. The file extension can be defined in a dialog box that appears as soon as the script is run. It uses Lynx to parse the web page for links and Zenity for the dialogs. The desired [...]