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Yosemite Upgrade Tweaks

I switched to OS X 10.10 Yosemite a couple weeks after the Beta release. While it's been surprising stable, there are a few things I've had to tweak for development. Compiling a list here.

Homebrew was dead [fixed]

I followed this: http://jcvangent.com/fixing-homebrew-os-x-10-10-yosemite

Ruby/RVM/Ruby Gems was fishy [fixed..enough]

I think this has something to do with the system update to Ruby 2.0.

Tomcat

In the Tomcat folder create a railo/ folder and copy in the contents of the unzipped Railo JARs ZIP file (or from the WEB-INF/lib/ folder of the unzipped Railo WAR file). In the Tomcat conf/ folder, edit catalina.properties and find the common.loader class path. We're going to add the Railo JARs to the common class path so that every web application can have Railo CFML pages. The new common.loader definition should look like this (all on one line, no spaces): common.loader=${catalina.home}/lib,${catalina.home}/lib/*.jar,${catalina.home}/railo,${catalina.home}/railo/*.jar

Note: embedding Railo directly in Tomcat like this means that you will end up with a generated WEB-INF/ folder in each webroot, containing some Railo files (about 2MB).

Unless you're going to use the default web applications that come with Tomcat, this is a good time to empty the Tomcat webapps/ folder. You could create a default/ folder in the Tomcat folder and move everything from webapps/ to default/

Tomcat 6 under secured Nginx?

In Big Blue Button Tomcat 6 is used under Nginx.

Tomcat documentation for "SSL - How to" in "SSL and Tomcat" section, clames that:
"It is important to note that configuring Tomcat to take advantage of secure sockets is usually only necessary when running it as a stand-alone web server. When running Tomcat primarily as a Servlet/JSP container behind another web server, such as Apache or Microsoft IIS, it is usually necessary to configure the primary web server to handle the SSL connections from users. Typically, this server will negotiate all SSL-related functionality, then pass on any requests destined for the Tomcat container only after decrypting those requests. Likewise, Tomcat will return cleartext responses, that will be encrypted before being returned to the user's browser. In this environment, Tomcat knows that communications between the primary web server and the client are taking place over a secure conn

##Perks of Microsoft

####Salary

Can't go into details, but can't complain at all.

####Health and Wellness Care

Medical and hospitalization: Two choices for medical insurance. Both with no premium but different deductibles.
- The two choices on medical plans are a high-deductible health plan (Microsoft puts a chunk of money into the Health Savings Account for you, which covers most of the deductible) and an HMO.
With the HMO, you pay basically nothing as long as you only go to Group Health doctors. With the high-deductible plan, you're covered under the local Blue Cross provider which means you can go to just about any doctor in the country. For

Currency Exchange - Current Setup

Market Outline

$5.3 trillion turnover every day across 192 currencies, with over 40% global trading involving European currencies
for banks, financial institutions and most businesses, trading stops every weekend from 20:15 GMT on Sunday until 22:00 GMT Friday
extreme market concentration: the top 4 institutions (Deutsche Bank, Barclays Capital, UBS & Citi) account for around 46% of all foreign exchange transactions. Throw in JPMorgan, HSBC, RBS, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley (so, just 10 closely networked institutions) and you have 77% of all currency trading.
large spreads between buy and sell prices across currency pairs. Almost all businesses and financial institutions, exchanging into another currency then back, will lose at least 1% of value. For consumers, losses

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