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CQ / AEM - reverting HTTP service config

Ran into an issue today that I couldn't quickly find a useful fix for with Google, so here it is for posterity. In the Adobe AEM (nee CQ) CMS there are configuration options

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Testing Ghost on FreeBSD

Doing some initial testing of the Ghost blogging platform on my FreeBSD test system. Seems to be working pretty smoothly, most of the issues I've had have been documented just not where I

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Geek

Windows 10 and web analytics

I'm very curious how quickly Windows 10 is being adopted. One quick way to get a look at this normally is via web analytics and traffic dashboards for large Internet services like content

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New blog face

This blog has a new face! I've moved to a static rendering system called Nikola that's based on Python. I was originally looking at Octopress which is built around Jekyll and other Ruby

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Google adds HTTPS as a search rank signal

Yesterday, Google posted they were adding HTTPS as a search rank signal. This means if your site supports HTTPS your search results will be ranked higher. So far they're only adding it as

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IPv6

IPv6 clients hitting this blog

When I moved this server to Rackspace in April (and blogged about it) one of the primary motivations was so I could provide IPv6 support. Earlier this month I decided it'd be interesting

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Kickstarter

I've been watching Kickstarter from afar for a while, not particularly looking for projects to back but watching as various people/companies/sectors I'm interested in have been experimenting with it. This week

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Tiny Tiny RSS

In my last post I was thinking about what to do now that Google Reader is headed for end-of-life. As a quick interim step, I installed Liferea on my Ubuntu desktop, which at

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RIP Google Reader

I'm sure I was as surprised as anyone else today when I got the popup in Google Reader, which I used constantly, informing of it's impending demise on July 1st. I've been a

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Work

Git and libcurl with older OpenSSL connecting to newer OpenSSL - error 1112

There's an interesting edge condition we ran into at work last week around git connecting to a repo over HTTPS. Specifically, the error error:[number]:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:reason(1112)

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Apple

Music in the Cloud

Now that Apple has announced their iCloud service, I thought I'd jot down some thoughts on music storage in the cloud -- that is, on some company's central server instead of on your

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Work

Technology thoughts - Mar 19, 2010

I was listening to the latest OWASP podcast this morning and thinking about mismatches between my own beliefs about technology and the beliefs I experience in the workplace (past and current). I subscribe

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Bing, which leads to Silverlight and Moonlight

I've started trying the new Bing search engine now that Microsoft has relaunched it as a replacement for Live Search. Bing is WAY better than Live was, but still fails in interesting ways.

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Google Chrome on Ubuntu - not yet auspicious

Just for fun, since I use Google Chrome as my main browser on my Windows desktop now, I decided to try the very first public Dev release of Google Chrome for Linux. It's

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Work

How interactive agencies are missing the boat

I recently spent almost a year at an interactive/digital agency, and despite that I'm still interested in what they do. I think this is a great post about what interactive agencies, including

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Google Analytics and Flash

We ran into an interesting situation at $work with Google Analytics and Flash. There are instructions here for calling Google Analytics from within a Flash movie. Unfortunately, the non-AS3 version of the instructions

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Blogs

New theme, upgraded WordPress

I've upgraded WordPress to 2.7 and am trying a new theme. All seems good so far. In particular the new WordPress dashboard is quite slick.

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Wordbook, audiobooks

I'm testing a new plugin for Wordpress called Wordbook -- if it works, this blog post should show up on Facebook. Also, I thought it might be interesting to document what audiobooks I'm

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Google Chrome out of beta

So, Google Chrome is out of beta, but still no Mac or Linux versions. I've been using Chrome on my personal XP laptop as my primary browser since it came out (I'm using

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Work

Launch!

I was going to write this yesterday, but had a fun stomach flu and was literally in bed all day. Feeling much better now, though still tired. Friday at work we launched the

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Google Chrome

So, Google has released a browser called Chrome. So far it's only for Windows, and is being called beta, but Gmail is still beta, so whatever. The install is nifty, it automagically imports

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LinkedIn SSL cert expired this morning...

Trying to login to LinkedIn this morning with Firefox 3, this morning I saw.... www.linkedin.com uses an invalid security certificate. The certificate expired on 06/07/08 02:53 AM. (Error

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Useful

Wordpress code/pre tags

More things for posterity, as I had to search several times to find what I wanted... To make the pretty formatting boxes for command output in the Grails post I just finished, I

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Grails on Ubuntu Hardy

Just for the posterity of the Internet, and because I didn't find an immediately useful answer when searching with Google... I've been looking at Groovy, a really cool language with similarities to Ruby

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Security

Ruby problems

Interesting post at Matasano with details about some possibly exploitable bugs in Ruby. I'm glad I'm not currently supporting any Ruby on Rails apps, I'm sure there are many web 2.0 companies

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