Floating Sun

On debugging OAuth2 in #golang

TL;DR: if you run into strange oauth2 errors especially against not-so-well-known endpoints, you may want to try RegisterBrokenAuthHeaderProvider

While working on some authentication changes for dbxcli, I ran into a strange issue, that ultimately had…

HOWTO: Wordpress on PHP-FPM and Apache

This was done on Ubuntu 15.10, though instructions should easily translate to other Debian/Ubuntu derivatives.

First, install the required packages:

$ apt-get install apache2 php-fpm5

HOWTO: Wordpress on Nginx

This was done on Ubuntu 15.10, though instructions should easily translate to other Debian/Ubuntu derivatives.

First, install the required packages:

$ apt-get install nginx php-fpm5

Capsule: One Jar to Rule Them All

Recap: The Elusive Uber Jar

In a previous post I discussed various challenges and pitfalls in creating an “uber” jar for deploying Java applications. Having battled Maven Shade, Maven Assembly and even Proguard out of…

Gaestebin 2.0

AngularJS + Go + AppEngine = Gaestebin 2.0

A while back, I wrote a secure pastebin that can be deployed on Google AppEngine for use at work.

It has served us well since then, but I was itching to learn some new things and so few weekends ago, I rewrote…

The Elusive Uber Jar

Have you ever built or shipped a (large) Java application? If so, you probably packaged everything together in a single jar/war file to make it easy to download, deploy and run. Despite being such a seemingly common (and simple) task, building this “jar with dependencies” — commonly called…