The most recent blog articles

  • Digging deeper into AWstats

    AWstats is a popular program to analyze logfiles. The AWstats files themselves are neat little databases from which you can extract a wealth of information.

    Jan 20, 2011 read more

  • Finding out what hardware is in a box with lshw

    Sometimes you need to know what hardware is in a system, but you don't have specs, or you don't have access to the system. Being able to extract this information directly from the system would then...

    Jan 3, 2011 read more

  • Requesting remote JSON or XML from a Smarty template

    Occasionally it is necessary to get data from another domain to display on a webpage. Using Smarty templates it is very easy to fetch and display remote data in JSON or XML format.

    Dec 18, 2010 read more

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Hackvalue is our corporate blog, that sheds light on matters related to specialized web hosting and development. Topics include but are not limited to (Linux) server administration, network protocols, server and client side programming, and web technologies, supplemented with the odd related topic.

Like this site, the blog is divided in an English and a Dutch part, and if you have no problems reading Dutch, then the Dutch part of the blog might also be interesting for you. It caters to a slightly different crowd.

If you're wondering why we use the name Hackvalue, please read the FAQ that goes with the blog.