Mehdi Hasan Khan mugli

Effective Engineer - Notes

By Edmond Lau
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http://www.theeffectiveengineer.com/

What's an Effective Engineer?

They are the people who get things done. Effective Engineers produce results.

Adopt the Right Mindsets

#HTML presentation tools

There are many HTML presentation tools and they are all created for slightly different reasons. Here's an overview. Please let me know if I forgot any.

##CSSS

CSS-based SlideShow System

Let's Encrypt on Ubuntu 14.04, nginx with webroot auth

This document details how I setup LE on my server. Firstly, install the client as described on http://letsencrypt.readthedocs.org/en/latest/using.html and make sure you can execute it. I put it in /root/letsencrypt.

As it is not possible to change the ports used for the standalone authenticator and I already have a nginx running on port 80/443, I opted to use the webroot method for each of my domains (note that LE does not issue wildcard certificates by design, so you probably want to get a cert for www.example.com and example.com).

Configuration

For this, I placed config files into etc/letsencrypt/configs, named after <domain>.conf. The files are simple:

Clustering: The basics

The trick? pass the file descriptor from a parent process and have the server.listen reuse that descriptor. So multiprocess in their own memory space (but with ENV shared usually)

It does not balance, it leaves it to the kernel.

In the last nodejs > 0.8 there is a cluster module (functional although marked experimental)

http://nodejs.org/api/cluster.html
Simple cluster example:

Setting up a SSL Cert from Comodo

I use Namecheap.com as a registrar, and they resale SSL Certs from a number of other companies, including Comodo.

These are the steps I went through to set up an SSL cert.

Purchase the cert

ACL / Roles + Permissions

https://github.com/djvirgen/virgen-acl Simple and elegant, create your own checks. No middleware?

https://github.com/OptimalBits/node_acl Use as middleware, create your own roles and access. Great choice.

https://github.com/tschaub/authorized Similar to connect roles... but a bit more robust? you can create roles and action, and associate many roles with that action

Getting Started with NPM (as a developer)

If you haven't already set your NPM author info, now you should:

npm set init.author.name "Your Name"
npm set init.author.email "[email protected]"
npm set init.author.url "http://yourblog.com"

npm adduser

	### BEGIN INIT INFO
	# Provides: Xvfb
	# Required-Start: $local_fs $remote_fs
	# Required-Stop:
	# X-Start-Before:
	# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
	# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
	# Short-Description: Loads X Virtual Frame Buffer
	### END INIT INFO

	/*
	export default new GraphQLObjectType({
	name: 'User',
	description: 'A user',
	fields: () => ({
	first_name: {
	type: GraphQLString,
	description: 'The first name of the user.'
	},
	email: {

	var ffi = require('ffi'),
	ref = require('ref'),
	Struct = require('ref-struct'),
	Library = require('./Library'),
	Type = ref.Type,
	NULL = ref.NULL,
	isNull = ref.isNull;


	var groups = ['libs', 'types', 'structs', 'callbacks', 'enums'];