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@fnichol
fnichol / README.md
Created March 12, 2011 20:52
Download a cacert.pem for RailsInstaller

Why?

There is a long standing issue in Ruby where the net/http library by default does not check the validity of an SSL certificate during a TLS handshake. Rather than deal with the underlying problem (a missing certificate authority, a self-signed certificate, etc.) one tends to see bad hacks everywhere. This can lead to problems down the road.

From what I can see the OpenSSL library that Rails Installer delivers has no certificate authorities defined. So, let's go fetch some from the curl website. And since this is for ruby, why don't we download and install the file with a ruby script?

Installation

The Ruby Way! (Fun)

@chitchcock
chitchcock / 20111011_SteveYeggeGooglePlatformRant.md
Created October 12, 2011 15:53
Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

I was at Amazon for about six and a half years, and now I've been at Google for that long. One thing that struck me immediately about the two companies -- an impression that has been reinforced almost daily -- is that Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everything right. Sure, it's a sweeping generalization, but a surprisingly accurate one. It's pretty crazy. There are probably a hundred or even two hundred different ways you can compare the two companies, and Google is superior in all but three of them, if I recall correctly. I actually did a spreadsheet at one point but Legal wouldn't let me show it to anyone, even though recruiting loved it.

I mean, just to give you a very brief taste: Amazon's recruiting process is fundamentally flawed by having teams hire for themselves, so their hiring bar is incredibly inconsistent across teams, despite various efforts they've made to level it out. And their operations are a mess; they don't real

@MohamedAlaa
MohamedAlaa / tmux-cheatsheet.markdown
Last active March 16, 2025 19:10
tmux shortcuts & cheatsheet

tmux shortcuts & cheatsheet

start new:

tmux

start new with session name:

tmux new -s myname
@jstangroome
jstangroome / Deploy-SSRSProject.ps1
Created July 3, 2012 22:37
PowerShell scripts to deploy a SQL Server Reporting Services project (*.rptproj) to a Reporting Server
#requires -version 2.0
[CmdletBinding()]
param (
[parameter(Mandatory=$true)]
[ValidatePattern('\.rptproj$')]
[ValidateScript({ Test-Path -PathType Leaf -Path $_ })]
[string]
$Path,
[parameter(
@barryvdh
barryvdh / _ide_helper.php
Last active December 16, 2024 10:25
Laravel IDE Helper for Netbeans / PhpStorm / Sublime Text 2 CodeIntel, generated using https://github.com/barryvdh/laravel-ide-helper
<?php
/**
* A helper file for Laravel 5, to provide autocomplete information to your IDE
* Generated for Laravel 5.5.13 on 2017-09-28.
*
* @author Barry vd. Heuvel <[email protected]>
* @see https://github.com/barryvdh/laravel-ide-helper
*/
namespace {
exit("This file should not be included, only analyzed by your IDE");
@mjackson
mjackson / color-conversion-algorithms.js
Last active March 1, 2025 04:06
RGB, HSV, and HSL color conversion algorithms in JavaScript
/**
* Converts an RGB color value to HSL. Conversion formula
* adapted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSL_color_space.
* Assumes r, g, and b are contained in the set [0, 255] and
* returns h, s, and l in the set [0, 1].
*
* @param Number r The red color value
* @param Number g The green color value
* @param Number b The blue color value
* @return Array The HSL representation
@codingoutloud
codingoutloud / make-keys.bat
Last active October 3, 2024 07:10
Handy OpenSSL command-line combinations I've used - they might've been hard to find or come up with, so capturing them here.
@echo off
if _%1_==__ goto USAGE
openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 365 -newkey rsa:1024 -keyout mycert.pem -out mycert.pem -subj "/CN=My Cert Name"
openssl pkcs12 -export -out mycert.pfx -inkey mycert.pem -in mycert.pem -passout pass:%1
openssl x509 -inform pem -in mycert.pem -outform der -out mycert.cer
openssl pkcs12 -in mycert.pfx -nodes -passin pass:%1 | openssl x509 -noout -fingerprint
openssl x509 -in mycert.pem -noout -fingerprint
#fixed now!
Param(
[string]$html,
[string]$docx
)
# make the powershell process switch the current directory.
$oldwd = [Environment]::CurrentDirectory
[Environment]::CurrentDirectory = $pwd
@rikh42
rikh42 / gist:efad95142b1be3429a94
Last active March 23, 2019 18:42
Laravel Homestead XDebug Nginx and Composer config changes

Laravel Homestead XDebug Nginx and Composer config changes

/etc/nginx/fastcgi_params

Update nginx config to support a longer timeout to prevent it dropping the connection when trying to debug in PHP Storm

fastcgi_read_timeout 600; # Set fairly high for debugging
@altrive
altrive / ToastNotification_Windows10.ps1
Last active May 12, 2024 09:34
Windows 10 toast notification sample
$ErrorActionPreference = "Stop"
$notificationTitle = "Notification: " + [DateTime]::Now.ToShortTimeString()
[Windows.UI.Notifications.ToastNotificationManager, Windows.UI.Notifications, ContentType = WindowsRuntime] > $null
$template = [Windows.UI.Notifications.ToastNotificationManager]::GetTemplateContent([Windows.UI.Notifications.ToastTemplateType]::ToastText01)
#Convert to .NET type for XML manipuration
$toastXml = [xml] $template.GetXml()
$toastXml.GetElementsByTagName("text").AppendChild($toastXml.CreateTextNode($notificationTitle)) > $null