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Posted by on 6th May, 2013

Running WordPress on Azure

Running WordPress on Azure

WordPress started in 2003 with a single bit of code to enhance the typography of everyday writing and with fewer users than you can count on your fingers and toes. Since then it has grown to be the largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world, used on millions of sites and seen by tens of millions of people every day. Today it power about 18.9% of all websites in the world. WordPress is a CMS [Content Management System] based on a PHP/MySQL framework that is very useful for many and most cases, especially if you need a website quick up and running with minimum effort. Now, can you run WordPress in on Azure? Azure is Microsoft and this thing is PHP and MySQL….and they don’t mix, right? Well, yes, you can….and much easier than you thought. Go to: https://manage.windowsazure.com to access your Azure portal Here you have access to everything you’ll need to tinker with your site: FTP, connectionstrings, IP, etc. That is it. It could not be simpler than...

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Posted by on 5th May, 2013

Create a Bitcoin paper wallet

Create a Bitcoin paper wallet

A paper wallet is nothing more than the information of a Bitcoin key pair, printed on a piece of paper. This key pair, contains the address of where the funds are stored and the private key is the key to send or withdraw those funds. In other words, it is a pre-signed check with bitcoins. A paper wallet might look like this: The reason we want this on paper, is because, ultimately, having this on paper and away from any digital access is the best place to have the key to your funds. Away from your PC. Anywhere else, your data could be compromised by spyware or key loggers. There are many ways of doing this and everyone seems to have an opinion and a better way of doing this. Many will argue that you have to generate the key-pair on a computer that is air-gapped, or, in other words, is completely disconnected and has never been connected to the Internet, in order to avoid any possible mal-ware intercepting...

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Posted by on 3rd October, 2007

Developing a SharePoint Feature

Developing a SharePoint Feature

I have worked with SharePoint for a while now, mostly mostly writing code for integration scenarios, where data needs to be “pulled” or “pushed” into SharePoint involving other enterprise software applications. SharePoint 2007 Features are basically a mechanism to extend SharePoint in any way you need. Mike Ammerlaan wrote a brief and concise technical article describing features: I will try to describe how to develop a SharePoint 2007 Feature from zero. In this case our feature will handle the event that SharePoint usually handles when a file gets added to a Document Library. When a user uploads a new document to a Document Library, we want to run some custom code. In our example we will simply be creating a text file on the desktop containing data from the file that fired such event. Obviously you would want to make it something meaningful, like pass that data to an external workflow application or do womething with that document, but this is just an example. I have worked with SharePoint for a...

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