John Kamuchau multiplier

Frontend Development

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Secure private web server with NodeJS

This article will explain how to set up a secure web server with NodeJS which only accepts connection from users with SSL certificates that you have signed. This is an efficient way to ensure that no other people are able to access the web server, without building a login system which will be significantly weaker.

I will not explain how to create a certificate authority (CA), create certificates or sign them. If you need to read up on this, have a look at this excelent article on how to do it with OpenSSL (Mac and Linux): https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OpenSSL#Practical_OpenSSL_Usage It is also possible to do this on a Mac with the keychain application, and I assume it is possible on a Windows machine aswell.

This architecture will allow you to have one web server communicating with an array of trusted clients, the web server itself can be on the public internet, that will not decrease the level of security, but it will only ser

Customization

<%= f.input :state, :collection => ['SA', 'WA'] %>

<%= f.input :state,
            :as => :radio_buttons,
            :collection => ['SA', 'WA'],

Deploying Rails to Linode

Installing Ruby Enterprise Edition, Apache, MySQL, and Passenger for deploying Rails 3.0 applications.

Get a Linode, and set it up with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS so that you have till April 2013 to get updates. Once the Linode is formatted, boot it and continue on.

Set up an 'A' record in your DNS, pointing to the IP of your Linode. I'm using demo.napcs.com here.

Initial setup

These are some of my (Ryan Bates) favorite gems to use for various tasks:

JavaScript: jQuery with jquery-rails
Pagination: Kaminari
Testing: RSpec, Cucumber and Capybara
Factories: Factory Girl
Authentication: Nifty Generators and Omniauth
Authorization: CanCan
File Attachments: Carrierwave
HTML/XML Parsing: Nokogiri

	/*
	Taken and cribbed from blog.datalicious.com/free-download-all-australian-postcodes-geocod

	May contain errors where latitude and longitude are off. Use at own non-validated risk.
	*/

	SET NAMES utf8;
	SET sql_mode = 'NO_AUTO_VALUE_ON_ZERO';

	DROP TABLE IF EXISTS postcodes_geo;

	#$:.unshift(File.expand_path('./lib', ENV['rvm_path'])) # Add RVM's lib directory to the load path.
	require 'bundler/capistrano'
	require 'rvm/capistrano'
	require "capistrano_colors"
	require 'thinking_sphinx/deploy/capistrano'
	require 'delayed/recipes'

	set :normalize_asset_timestamps, false
	set :rvm_type, :user
	set :rvm_ruby_string, 'ruby-1.9.3-p125@appname'

	When building a new instance of Amazon EC2 choose quick-start-1 as the security group not default

	#LOCALLY
	$ capify .
	$ chmod +x config/unicorn_init.sh
	$ git add .
	$ git commit -m "deployment configs"

	If rebuilding an instance don't forget to remove the ssh keys

	// This gist is now maintained on github at https://github.com/luetkemj/wp-query-ref

	<?php
	/**
	* WordPress Query Comprehensive Reference
	* Compiled by luetkemj - luetkemj.github.io
	*
	* CODEX: http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Parameters
	* Source: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/4.9.4/src/wp-includes/query.php
	*/

	$(function() {
	function split( val ) {
	return val.split( /,\s*/ );
	}

	function extractLast( term ) {
	return split( term ).pop();
	}

	$( "#new_interest" ).autocomplete({