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@bradmontgomery
bradmontgomery / install-comodo-ssl-cert-for-nginx.rst
Last active March 20, 2025 17:17
Steps to install a Comodo PositiveSSL certificate with Nginx.

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

@markSci5
markSci5 / Git checkout remote branch
Created July 3, 2013 07:08
Git checkout remote branch
//To fetch a branch, you simply need to:
git fetch origin
//This will fetch all of the remote branches for you. With the remote branches
//in hand, you now need to check out the branch you are interested in, giving
//you a local working copy:
git checkout -b test origin/test
@podefr
podefr / LICENSE.txt
Created October 25, 2011 12:54 — forked from 140bytes/LICENSE.txt
Finite State Machine
DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
Version 2, December 2004
Copyright (C) 2011 Olivier Scherrer
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified
copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long
as the name is changed.
DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
@briancavalier
briancavalier / simple-promise-retry.js
Created February 24, 2011 18:35
A few general patterns for retries using promises
function keepTrying(otherArgs, promise) {
promise = promise||new Promise();
// try doing the important thing
if(success) {
promise.resolve(result);
} else {
setTimeout(function() {
keepTrying(otherArgs, promise);
var Q = require("q");
var HTTP = require("q-http");
function httpReadRetry(url, timeout, times) {
return HTTP.read(url)
.then(function (content) {
return content;
}, function (error) {
if (times == 0)
throw new Error("Can't read " + JSON.stringify(url));