rene.schmidt^webtech

This is a reminder to myself as I have this problem every now and then. I thought I share this with you. Ok the problem is to random(ish)ly select a record from a MySQL database in an efficient way without any scripting… Read on ››

Yesterday I have dabbled in accessing Xing profiles via API. For years people were asking Xing to finally provide an API but they were hesitant because of the strict privacy laws in Germany. Xing has lost users in the… Read on ››

Heise online reports WordPress is going to clean up the plugins dir because plugins “suck” and that — despite this fact — is has become a constant in the web because large blogs such as Smashing… Read on ››

If you are using Linux (Ubuntu and Debian in my case) and are being haunted by unresponsive, CPU and memory hogging Java applications you might find this piece of information useful: Check if you are using OpenJDK by… Read on ››

I use Polipo as a caching web proxy for my VPN and for some simple anonymizing. It’s a great software. One thing bugs me though: when censoring User-Agent, as intended, it does not send a User-Agent header. But:… Read on ››

Every now and then colleagues or customers ask me whether I can do PayPal transactions with them. Unfortunately, I can not. Let me explain: Until some 7-8 years ago I had been a happy PayPal customer with a positive… Read on ››