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Client-side SSL

For excessively paranoid client authentication.

Updated Apr 5 2019:

because this is a gist from 2011 that people stumble into and maybe you should AES instead of 3DES in the year of our lord 2019.

some other notes:

If you're coming to the Property-Based TDD As If You Meant It Workshop, you will need to bring a laptop with your favourite programming environment, a property-based testing library and, depending on the language, a test framework to run the property-based-tests.

Any other languages or suggestions? Comment below.

.NET (C#, F#, VB)

FsCheck

Python:

Build your own private, encrypted, open-source Dropbox-esque sync folder

Prerequisites:

One or more clients running a UNIX-like OS. Examples are given for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, although all software components are available for other platforms as well (e.g. OS X). YMMV
A cheap Ubuntu 12.04 VPS with storage. I recommend Backupsy, they offer 250GB storage for $5/month. Ask Google for coupon codes.

Software components used:

Unison for file synchronization
EncFS for folder encryption

a simple git branching model (written in 2013)

This is a very simple git workflow. It (and variants) is in use by many people. I settled on it after using it very effectively at Athena. GitHub does something similar; Zach Holman mentioned it in this talk.

Update: Woah, thanks for all the attention. Didn't expect this simple rant to get popular.

	echo 'export PATH=$HOME/local/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.bashrc
	. ~/.bashrc
	mkdir ~/local
	mkdir ~/node-latest-install
	cd ~/node-latest-install
	curl http://nodejs.org/dist/node-latest.tar.gz \| tar xz --strip-components=1
	./configure --prefix=~/local
	make install # ok, fine, this step probably takes more than 30 seconds...
	curl https://www.npmjs.org/install.sh \| sh

	using System.Collections.Generic;

	namespace System.Threading
	{
	public class PollingWorker : IPollingWorker,IDisposable
	{
	private class TickAction
	{
	public string Name { get; set; }
	public Action Work { get; set; }

	using System;
	using System.Collections.Generic;
	using System.Linq;
	using System.Web;
	using System.Web.Mvc;
	using System.IO;
	using System.Text;

	namespace DummyMvc.Helpers
	{

	// usage

	_db.Query<Story, Stories_Search>()
	.If(status.HasValue, q => q.Where(x => x.Status == status))
	.If(!curatorId.IsEmpty(), q => q.Where(x => x.CuratorId == curatorId))
	.If(publicationDate.HasValue, q => q.Where(x => x.ProposedPublicationDate == publicationDate.Value.Date))
	.OrderByDescending(x => x.CreatedAt)
	.ToPagedList(page, size);


	public static List<List<Coordinate>> ToGoogleMapsPolygon(this DbGeography dbGeo)
	{
	// contains all geo data for one postal code / admin area code
	// conversion to SqlGeography because DbGeography does not offer properties to determine rings within geometries. we need those ring information to display areas with holes
	var sqlGeo = (SqlGeography) dbGeo.ProviderValue;

	var numberOfGeometries = sqlGeo.STNumGeometries();
	var result = new List<List<Coordinate>>((int) numberOfGeometries);

	ko.bindingHandlers.modal = {
	update: function (element, valueAccessor) {
	$(element).click(function () {
	$.fancybox({ content: $('<div/>').addClass('list-widget').html($('.content', $(element).parent()).html()) });
	});
	}
	};