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Gaming the game: Using Selenium to automate playing
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An online acquaintance described it like this: „You build your tool to reduce grinding. After a while, building the tool becomes a game in itself. One where you make the rules“ Multiplayer online games nowadays heavily rely on small repetitive tasks to regulate the pace in which you proceed in your competition with other players.…
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Mayday, mayday! We are blinking!
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For some time now, we at Mayflower can have slack time on every second friday. All colleagues who do not have urgent projects for our customers can choose to improve their knowledge, do some opensource development or just try out something cool and nerdy. The Idea First, we ordered some Raspberry Pis to test out…
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Connectivity for the (occasional) road warrior
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When you have a virtual machine that connects both to the host directly and to the network via bridging, you can run into troubles with DNS resolution if you use DHCP on both network interfaces. Since the solution is somewhat cryptically hidden in the DHCP client manual, here’s a walkthrough.
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Was SOLR für Ihren Shop tun kann
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Kostenlose und kostenpflichtige Shop-Software für verschiedene Anwendungsszenarien ist im Internet zahlreich vorhanden. Die etablierten Anbieter haben eine Vielzahl von Lösungen für Standardprobleme im Gepäck. Viele Interessenten die ihren Bedarf für außergewöhnlich halten, waren schon überrascht, wenn wir ihnen erklären konnten, dass ihre Bedürfnisse zu großen Teilen bereits von der Shop-Software abgedeckt waren. Umgekehrt gibt es…
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Supplementing your Online Shop with Apache SOLR
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Nowadays, if you want to have an online shop, you have a choice between a number of software solutions, from small and slim to large and comprehensive. Oxid eShop, Shopware, Magento, XT-Commerce are a couple of the more well-known solutions. Every vendor tries to provide the best experience for their target audience, so a couple…
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To Protect and Surf
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Slashdot reports, that CSS History Sniffing is back – this time utilizing the latency that your browser shows when you have visited a site already. The time a browser takes to respond differs when the resource that is linked in a page is already in the browser cache. Of course that only works when you…
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Decoupling URLs from Rewrite Rules
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Apache’s mod_rewrite is a really powerful tool, but with great power comes great responsibility. You wouldn’t like your customer to have to edit your rewriting rules.
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Oxid Commons and Unconference 2011
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On Thursday, May 5th, Oxid arranged their Commons fair for the third time. I was there and gave a talk about our experiences with the new Oxid EE shop, on Friday i attended the Unconference there.