Debian, ProFTPD, FTPS, TLS, SSL, and SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:unknown protocol
Recently I needed to test against an FTPS server. No big deal, I thought to myself, I’ll just set one…
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Longest Common Prefix Between Two Strings
While working on a “for fun” side project I needed to get the longest common prefix of two arbitrary strings.…
HandlerSocket for MySQL Interpreted PHP client
In case anyone is looking for a SocketHandler client written in PHP to do some light testing with, I’ve written…
Erlang + HTML5 + IRC = pretty much awesome
as someone who uses IRC every day for work… I find this to be a very cool idea, even though…
Adding a second authentication factor to WordPress
UPDATE: I’ve added the plugin to the WordPress.org repository. If it gathers interest/attention then I may develop it further and…
Todays lesson: Check your assumptions
It’s easy to make assumptions about what we think is the problem with the speed of our code. Lets say…
elockd [more] publicly available
I’d call this an 0.5 release. It’s now in the code repo that we at Automattic use to put out…
Using PHP and OpenSSH with username/password auth
It turns out that this is actually a tricky problem. It’s super easy to use the OpenSSH command line stuff…