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Enabling Wildcard SSL on a Heroku Rails App
Typically installing SSL is challenging enough, but add Heroku and the need for a wildcard SSL certificate in the mix [...]
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Extracting a salt from an MD5 Hash
In December of 2011, members of activist group Anonymous released a slew (over 860,000 records) of private data stolen from [...]
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Removing the passphrase from SSH keys
I never can remember this: Removing a passphrase from your id_rsa key Backup your id_rsa file! Then, openssl rsa -in [...]
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Create an OGV file from M4V
If you want to use HTML5 Video the right way, you’ll need to provide an OGV file along with your [...]
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Installing the MySQL Gem in Lion
I kept getting weird permissions errors trying to install the MySQL gem for Ruby 1.9.2. The issue is that I [...]
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SSL works in all browsers except Internet Explorer (IE 6/7/8)
I could’ve also titled this “fixing Fixing SSL Library Error: 336068931 error:14080143:SSL routines:SSL3_ACCEPT:unsafe legacy renegotiation disabled” — but that’s just [...]
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Setup SSL in Your Local Development Environment with XAMPP
Need SSL for you dev work? I constantly found myself needing a “fake” SSL certificate for local development so my [...]
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Allow remote MySQL connections to an AWS Instance
This took a while to figure out, but it’ll be easy for you if you follow the steps below: 1. [...]
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Using MySQL and CONCAT to build HTML
I recently had to pull a list of IDs and names from a database, then wrap each in an “ [...]
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Change The Border On A TinyMCE Textarea
I couldn’t figure out how to change the borders on a TinyMCE textarea–the problem was TinyMCE converts your textareas to [...]
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