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How to get the favicon.ico from any Page
Recently, I was in the need of retrieving the favicon.ico file from a website. As I had to process the file programmatically and render it on a website, it would have been quite a lot of manual work to...
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Fixing ASP.NET MVC 4 Web API 404
For a Web Service providing some REST-style URIs to access the data, I decided to use the ASP.NET MVC 4 Web API. Once developed, tested and deployed I experienced a mysterious 404 on my production...
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There it Goes – Google Reader Gone for Good
First headline in this morning’s news: Goggle stopps Google Reader (please bear in mind, this link won’t work anymore in the future). Google wants to power down the Google Reader among other APIs and...
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Collection #n
After Collection #1 it did not took long until additional sets fo leaked account and password information appeared. Meanwhile there are Collection #2 to Collection 5. All together there are more than...
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Have You Been Pwned?
Another way to figure out if your account and corresponding account data is https://haveibeenpwned.com/. Beside the web form an RESTful API is provided to check automatically. Right now...
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Monitoring your Site with Apex Ping
While I run meanwhile quite a number of websites, blogs and other services, I was looking for monitoring possibilities – not running on the server I am just monitoring. I was pointed to Apex Ping,...
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Usable Google Reader Alternative
I haven’t used feed readers a lot after Google Reader was cancelled on March 13, 2013. Before I made extensive use of it with quite a lot of resources. Personal weblogs, article feeds and so on. Once...
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Google XML Sitemaps
I started to learn a bit about Google Webmaster Tools and how to increase the findability of one’s website. First of all, I was looking for a flexible sitemap generator for WordPress where I ended up...
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After moving my blog to its new domain try-catch-finally.net there was one major issue open: Search engines. Google, Bing, DucDuckGo and whatever have their indices. Eventually, I want to make sure...
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Nicely Displayed Tweets
While looking at how to get a tweet from Twitter nicely formatted, I tried all kinds of tools, web sites and tips. In my case, I wanted to put a nice screenshot of the tweet by Alex Yates into my...
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