How to create your own SSL Certificate


Picture:Clock Published on February 27th, 2007 in Best of, Other, Ubuntu, Web

The openssl toolkit is typically used to generate an RSA Private Key and a CSR (Certificate Signing Request). But it can also be used to generate self-signed certificates which can be used for testing purposes or internal usage.

Step 1: Generate a Private Key
The first step is to create your RSA Private Key. This key is [...]

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Comparison of Source Code Search Engines


Picture:Clock Published on September 6th, 2006 in Best of, Programming

Inspired by my last post about the O’Reilly Labs website that let’s you search for source code, I did some more thorough research. Now guess what? I’ve made a table comparing them all, since some have less content, like O’Reilly for example, but offer better quality and some detailed explanation, while others provide plenty of [...]

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Taking a closer look at designing a website


Picture:Clock Published on June 29th, 2006 in Best of, CSS, Fun

I found this on the net, hilarious, but oh so true. Don’t you think IE users should switch just to make the lives of many web designers (including me) a lot easier? We’ll see how IE7 handles CSS.

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Visual Basic for Java?


Picture:Clock Published on June 17th, 2006 in Best of, Java, Other

You gotta be kidding right? Well, I’m not. And this could become something big and meaningful. It could win over a few million people over to the Java platform. But first things first:
As Visual Basic 6 gets older and older, more and more problems start to appear. Microsoft stopped supporting it, hoping most developers would [...]

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