Trust and openness to our decision making
Turun Sanomat reported a few days ago that Turku will finally publish it's purchasing data next spring – but only for this autumn. I'm glad this is finally happening – last autu...
2021
2020
Turku to be the forerunner of open data
Would you like to know what your tax euros are used for? Should data produced with public funding be usable and refinable by the citizens? Wouldn't it be awesome if a company in...
I'm running!
My term in the board of the national scouts organisation ends at the end of this year, and it's time to yield for some fresh ideas. But what to do next? Last night it was confir...
2019
Installing ModSecurity to Nginx in Debian 10
Debian finally has a ModSecurity package ready for use in the repository. However, using it with Nginx requires a few steps, which it took a while to figure out. # Create a work...
Fixing a hacked Drupal site
Figure out what's going on Try to figure out what exactly has been done on the site. If there are no visible content changes, it is possible that your site is used as a proxy se...
2013
First impressions on Jolla
I finally got my hands around the new, shiny Jolla – I might've waited for it a bit, since it took about twenty minutes from the SMS telling me I can pick it up to the time I wa...
Replacing BIND with PowerDNS and PowerAdmin
Why the switch? Recently I started wondering if there would be something better than the old, trustworthy BIND for all my DNS daemon needs. BIND is good, don't get me wrong, but...
2012
Selecting a good SMS gateway for Finland
Today I realized I need to add SMS alerts to my dear Zabbix that tries to keep track of my servers' status. I just don't notice email alerts soon enough. However, when you searc...
2011
The last dojo – more testing
The fourth, and last, dojo of our course was about Session-Based Testing. That was also (weirdly enough?) the title of the first presentation, that gave us a basic overview of s...
The third dojo – Show time!
The third dojo's presentations were about Exploratory testing a web application and Bug management with RedMine. It was, finally, showtime – my group had done a presentation abo...
The second dojo – UI test automation and Watir
The second dojo was about UI test automation and Watir. We started with the presentations – this time one presentation for the whole course. First was the general presentation a...
The first dojo – coding with Cucumber
I started my first dojo with being a bit late. I didn't have the slightest clue on where I should go or what I should do – always a nice beginning. At the first coding dojo we s...
”Software testing – special course” 101
In this period I'm attending a course that I was very much looking forward to: Software testing – special course. The special part means that it's being lectured by two industry...
Drupal 7 logging to rsyslog
The usual way to do Drupal 7 logging is to save all the log entries to the database. This has it’s benefits and it’s problems: On one hand it works fine on every Drupal site wit...
Extending the Drupal 6 FINeID smart card authentication
On Sunday I wrote about Drupal 6 authentication with a FINeID card. In it I also claimed I was planning on expanding the Certificate Login module to facilitate an option for Ope...
Drupal 6 authentication on Apache 2 with a Finnish Population Register Centre (VRK) FINeID smart card
Months ago I acquired the Finnish FINeID smart card produced by the Police and Population Register Centre, even though plans about discontinuing it altogether have already been ...