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 ››

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 ››

In my humble opinion, the upcoming CSS Level 3 Media Queries are one of the major improvements in web development.Yesterday I have implemented those in my web site so that it adapts to various browser window widths.See… Read on ››

Together with Florian I have recently investigated a security issue in OpenX where attackers could drop a web shell onto the server. Heise is covering the story. Unfortunately the posting suggests that this is an issue… Read on ››

In a Slowloris attack a client (or a botnet) opens a large amount of connections to a web server and holds them open. It does not send complete requests so you might find no request of the attacker in an Apache log… Read on ››

Web fonts have been adopted by all major web browsers. What Firefox 3.1+ w/ Noscript users might not know is that Noscript blocks “font face” by default so they do not get to see nice fonts. There are two… Read on ››