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Client-side SSL

For excessively paranoid client authentication.

Using self-signed certificate.

Create a Certificate Authority root (which represents this server)

Organization & Common Name: Some human identifier for this server CA.

openssl genrsa -des3 -out ca.key 4096
openssl req -new -x509 -days 365 -key ca.key -out ca.crt

Better local require() paths for Node.js

Problem

When the directory structure of your Node.js application (not library!) has some depth, you end up with a lot of annoying relative paths in your require calls like:

var Article = require('../../../models/article');

Those suck for maintenance and they're ugly.

	#! /bin/sh
	# ==================================================================
	# ______ __ _____
	# /_ __/___ ____ ___ _________ _/ /_ /__ /
	# / / / __ \/ __ `__ \/ ___/ __ `/ __/ / /
	# / / / /_/ / / / / / / /__/ /_/ / /_ / /
	#/_/ \____/_/ /_/ /_/\___/\__,_/\__/ /_/

	# Multi-instance Apache Tomcat installation with a focus
	# on best-practices as defined by Apache, SpringSource, and MuleSoft