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Solr is great for searching through a massive data collection in lots of different ways. But one thing Solr lacks is the possibility to search bitwise. And this by itself makes sense: Solr uses …

If everything goes according to plan (which never is the case), I’ll try and highlight some of the fascinating stuff that can be found inside the SPL. I do a lot of presentations about the SPL, and …

Sometimes you are looking so hard for a solution, that you won’t even see them even if they punched you in the face. Email Subaddressing is one of those issues I couldn’t get fixed.

Not all IDEs (actually, i haven’t seen even one IDE that does this), can run your unit-tests as soon as something changes.

If you do command line work under Linux, you probably are aware that when pressing <TAB> automatically completes your command, or give you options for it that are currently available. For instance, …

As a proof of concept I wanted to see in how far I could decode some TLS data on the client side. Obviously, this is very complex matter, and even though TLS looks deceptively simple, it isn’t. To …

I really love the travis-ci and scrutinizer-ci combo. Between them there are not many things missing like you would find in more complex systems like Jenkins for instance. Both travis and scrutinizer …

In the current day and age, using a plain HTTPS connection might not be the most secure way to communicate anymore. Sure, for your purposes and goals we can assume that this communication is safe …

**January 1, ** This year will be different. I will sort all my mail directly into different mailboxes. I will make sure my inbox will be 0 at all times. Yes! This is going to be an awesome worry-free …

After buying a secondhand generic Rabbit laser cutter, I immediately fell in love with laser cutting and engraving. It really rocks, you can make really neat things and we even use it for promotion …