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 ~/.ssh/id_rsa -out ~/.ssh/id_rsa_new cp ~/.ssh/id_rsa ~/.ssh/id_rsa.backup rm ~/.ssh/id_rsa cp ~/.ssh/id_rsa_new ~/.ssh/id_rsa chmod 400 ~/.ssh/id_rsa Removing a passphrase from an SSL [...]
Read MoreCracking MD5 Hashes with the Webtionary
… or “Using Google and Yahoo to Light-Force An (Almost) Infinite Dictionary” I read an article recently about using Google to search for plaintext equivalents of MD5 hashes. Basically, you search for the hash (something like, “5f4dcc3b5aa765d61d8327deb882cf99″) and look through [...]
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Understanding Gemfile Dependencies
I really struggled with this while learning Rails. In the Gemfile, I thought you could have groupings of Gems that [...]
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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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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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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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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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Facebook Connect Mock-Up For Balsamiq
I don’t pitch products much, but I feel like I need to on this one. A Carsonified post from Ryan [...]
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Uploading an Image in PHP Gives a Black Box (Another Internet Explorer Error)
Really, I’m tired of supporting IE. Half the time, I find a “mistake” in my HTML coding that I didn’t [...]
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Reverse TinyURL, bit.ly, is.gd, and more with PHP and cURL
I’m working on a new project that requires me to take URLs made from url shorteners like tinyurl.com, is.gd, and [...]
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Find Replace in MySQL
Somewhere between the backing-up and restoration of my MySQL WordPress database I picked up some strange characters. Rather than having [...]
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Now in 2600
If you don’t read The Hacker Quartlery, then this won’t intersest you much, but I had an article published in [...]
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If Presidential Candidates Were Programming Languages
America is abuzz with political noise, and it’s got me thinking about the candidates in terms of programming languages. In [...]
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Lightbox Bug Tracking with Wufoo
First, a plug for Wufoo–it’s an excellent web-app from the guys at Particletree, and it enables just about everyone to [...]
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Geocoded US Cities
I couldn’t really find a good pre-made solution for this anywhere, so using state data from Infoplease, PHP’s CURL functions, [...]
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