rene.schmidt^webtech

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 ››

I like outsourcing work to other freelancers when I am short on time myself. Over the time, I am often asked the same questions again and again. Obviously it is time for an “Outsourcing freelance jobs” FAQ.… Read on ››

I have made a rough review of Facebooks Like button memory footprint. Since every like button sits in an iframe I am assuming that this would have a heavy impact on a browsers memory footprint. Web developers should… Read on ››