When hobbies come together
When hobbies come together, nice things happen. Back in the end of 2020 I decided to move this blog. At the time I thought the free Oracle cloud tier would be inadequate for any serious work. Oh boy was I wrong!!!
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Recent Posts
Oracle Wallets for credential storage
If you're developing for the web (or something else) and you need to connect to an Oracle database, such as an Oracle Autonomous Database that comes for free with oracle cloud free tier, you may run to the typical problem of storing db connection credentials in configuration files and scripts. Nevertheless, Oracle has, since ages, a functionality called Oracle Wallet that can help you manage these connections more securely. Keep in mind that Oracle migrates away from Wallets, but my understanding is that this is a response to usability concerns, as the security standard is not maintained in the new set-up.
Moving this blog
I decided to move this blog to Oracle Cloud. I am very satisfied wth my current hosting provider and I plan to maintain my VPS there, but I also have good reasons to move.
SSL certificate revocation gotchas
As you may have heard, Let's Encrypt revoked several certificates today that were issued through a faulty process. Read on for the details, and on how to identify the revoked certificates themselves.
Google+ is dying, be prepared
As you may have heard, Google+ is going to die. This is a good thing since there were some security / privacy issues last year. Google decided to kill the product instead of trying to fix it, which is understandable and a respectful decision.
Responsive design
When I started creating this blog, some 40 days ago, I decided to go with a very simple template. First of all because I don't like many bells and whistles. Second, because I know that I don't have the skills to modify complex templates. All these JS libraries and CSS magic things are wonderful, but I leave them to the professionals.