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List of data APIs that require no server-side auth or private credentials, and are thus good for small browser-only JS projects.

3taps (information)
Adobe Creative SDK (image editing)
App.net
Bing Maps

How to set up stress-free SSL on an OS X development machine

One of the best ways to reduce complexity (read: stress) in web development is to minimize the differences between your development and production environments. After being frustrated by attempts to unify the approach to SSL on my local machine and in production, I searched for a workflow that would make the protocol invisible to me between all environments.

Most workflows make the following compromises:

Use HTTPS in production but HTTP locally. This is annoying because it makes the environments inconsistent, and the protocol choices leak up into the stack. For example, your web application needs to understand the underlying protocol when using the secure flag for cookies. If you don't get this right, your HTTP development server won't be able to read the cookies it writes, or worse, your HTTPS production server could pass sensitive cookies over an insecure connection.
Use production SSL certificates locally. This is annoying

nginx 403 Forbidden Error hosting in User Home Directory

resources

runtime environment

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.

	class Program
	{
	#region Private variables

	// the secret password which we will try to find via brute force
	private static string password = "p123";
	private static string result;

	private static bool isMatched = false;

	# Download diffmerge from http://www.sourcegear.com/diffmerge/

	git config --global merge.tool diffmerge
	git config --global mergetool.diffmerge.cmd "diffmerge --merge --result=\$MERGED \$LOCAL \$BASE \$REMOTE"
	git config --global mergetool.diffmerge.trustExitCode true
	git config --global mergetool.keepBackup false

	git config --global diff.tool diffmerge
	git config --global difftool.diffmerge.cmd "diffmerge \$LOCAL \$REMOTE"

	#/bin/bash
	#-- Script to automate https://help.github.com/articles/why-is-git-always-asking-for-my-password

	REPO_URL=`git remote -v \| grep -m1 '^origin' \| sed -Ene's#.(https://[^[:space:]]).*#\1#p'`
	if [ -z "$REPO_URL" ]; then
	echo "-- ERROR: Could not identify Repo url."
	echo " It is possible this repo is already using SSH instead of HTTPS."
	exit
	fi


	// Setup CSRF safety for AJAX:
	$.ajaxPrefilter(function(options, originalOptions, jqXHR) {
	if (options.type.toUpperCase() === "POST") {
	// We need to add the verificationToken to all POSTs
	var token = $("input[name^=__RequestVerificationToken]").first();
	if (!token.length) return;

	var tokenName = token.attr("name");

	using Amazon;
	using Amazon.SQS;
	using Amazon.SQS.Model;
	using Amazon.SQS.Util;
	using System;
	using System.Collections.Generic;
	using System.Linq;
	using System.Threading;

	namespace Sixeyed.Blogging.Aws