Just a little issue but as I really had issues disabling Thunderbird accounts (stop querying mails) without deleting or archiving them. Finally I found a really simple solution to this problem. Go to server settings Put 127.0.0.1 as your server IP Done.

Today I want to share an article which is 7 years old but still 100% accurate. It shows the common mistakes in software development and the best practices about how to avoid those mistakes. Short summary – do not do STUPID code: Singleton Tight Coupling Untestability Premature Optimization Indescriptive Naming Duplication Do SOLID code: Single […]

Today a little post about myself: I was speaker at Wordcamp Vienna 2020. It was my first talk in front of a huge audience and therefore definitely a challenge. Anyway I a am proud that I have done it and the message was recieved by the audience quite well. I had to speak in the […]

Laravel super short five minutes crash course – an overview of what it is, the core concepts and the core functionalities.

A little bit of advertising for my new Plugin “Simple User Locking” which I have just released to the WordPress plugin repository. It has just passed the security audit by the WordPress plugin team and is not publicly available and free for everybody.

qTranslate is a great multilanguage Plugin for WordPress. It is fast and easy. For many of my projects from 2012-2017 I have chosen it over WPML or multisite multilanguage as it is super fast and easy. Then the author suddenly has disappeared without a Word tens of thousands of WordPress sites have been affected. One […]

Answer: Do not use PHPMyAdmin. This is how you do it with the command line: Importing an SQL dump file: mysql -u [user] -p [password] [database name] < [Path to Dump File] Exporting an SQL dump file: mysqldump -u [user] -p [password] [database name] > [Path to Dump File]

It is easy. Install Tor Browser (https://www.torproject.org/) Modify the torrc-file in the folder of the Tor Browser and set a specific country (Tutorial: http://www.wikihow.com/Set-a-Specific-Country-in-a-Tor-Browser, Country list: http://www.b3rn3d.com/blog/2014/03/05/tor-country-codes/) (Re-)start Tor Browser and have fun No censorship, no copyright locks, …

Thats a very annoying common problem I discovered – if calling Ajax within a Javascript loop the callback function will be called asynchronously. That means: All local variables in the callback function will have their future value instead the value they had when the loop was running.   Example 1 (probably unwanted results): var types […]

Probably every PHP developer in the world has already seen the following notice at least once: Notice: Undefined index: not_set in /home/.sites/../../../…php on line 1 It happens if accessing the key of an array which does not exist. There is a very similar problem with PHP objects: If you access a property of an object […]