Fabian Mu fabianmu

There's no shortage of good resources for learning laravel. So instead of the usual introductory tutorial were just gonna learn Laravel by building a project from scratch and that's gonna be a User Management System.

I don't know if my definition of a User Management System is correct but here's my idea of what's it's capable of doing:

Register Roles
Register Users
Update Users

OS X Screencast to animated GIF

This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.

Instructions

To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:

Basecamp was under network attack

The attack detailed below has stopped (for the time being) and almost all network access for almost all customers have been restored. We're keeping this post and the timeline intact for posterity. Unless the attack resumes, we'll post a complete postmortem within 48 hours (so before Wednesday, March 26 at 11:00am central time).

Criminals have laid siege to our networks using what's called a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS) starting at 8:46 central time, March 24 2014. The goal is to make Basecamp, and the rest of our services, unavailable by flooding the network with bogus requests, so nothing legitimate can come through. This attack was launched together with a blackmail attempt that sought to have us pay to avoid this assault.

Note that this attack targets the network link between our servers and the internet. All the data is safe and sound, but nobody is able to get to it as long as the attack is being successfully executed. This is like a bunch of people

System Design Cheatsheet

Picking the right architecture = Picking the right battles + Managing trade-offs

Basic Steps

Clarify and agree on the scope of the system

User cases (description of sequences of events that, taken together, lead to a system doing something useful)
- Who is going to use it?
- How are they going to use it?

	/* ---------------------------------------------------------- */
	/* */
	/* A media query that captures: */
	/* */
	/* - Retina iOS devices */
	/* - Retina Macs running Safari */
	/* - High DPI Windows PCs running IE 8 and above */
	/* - Low DPI Windows PCs running IE, zoomed in */
	/* - Low DPI Windows PCs and Macs running Firefox, zoomed in */
	/* - Android hdpi devices and above */

	/*
	* Takes provided URL passed as argument and make screenshots of this page with several viewport sizes.
	* These viewport sizes are arbitrary, taken from iPhone & iPad specs, modify the array as needed
	*
	* Usage:
	* $ casperjs screenshots.js http://example.com
	*/

	var casper = require("casper").create();

	# Bind SSL port with PFS-enabling cipher suite
	bind :443 ssl crt path_to_certificate no-tls-tickets ciphers ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:AES128-GCM-SHA256:AES256-GCM-SHA384:AES128-GCM-SHA384:AES128-SHA256:AES128-SHA:AES256-SHA256:AES256-SHA:!MD5:!aNULL:!DH:!RC4

	# Distinguish between secure and insecure requests
	acl secure dst_port eq 443

	# Mark all cookies as secure if sent over SSL
	rsprep ^Set-Cookie:\ (.*) Set-Cookie:\ \1;\ Secure if secure

	# Add the HSTS header with a 1 year max-age

	{{-- Define all our servers --}}
	@servers(['staging' => '', 'production' => ''])

	@setup
	{{-- The timezone your servers run in --}}
	$timezone = 'Europe/Amsterdam';

	{{-- The base path where your deployments are sitting --}}
	$path = '/var/www/site.com/htdocs';

	// by dave aka bees & bombs >:)

	void setup() {
	colorMode(HSB,1);
	size(540, 540, P3D);
	rectMode(CENTER);
	fill(200);
	noStroke();
	frameRate(50);
	smooth(8);

	function(doc) {
	emit(doc.toSource().length, doc);
	}