jonlabelle

Windows to UNIX Command Cheat Sheet

Windows PowerShell has several transition aliases that allow UNIX and CMD users to use familiar command names in Windows PowerShell. The most common aliases are shown in the table below, along with the Windows PowerShell command behind the alias and the standard Windows PowerShell alias if one exists.

CMD Command	UNIX Command	PowerShell Command	PowerShell Alias
dir	ls	Get-ChildItem	gci

kljensen

Encrypting text fields in Mongoose is easy using Node's built-in crypto module. You might want to do this if you're using MongoDB as a service (see the recent MongoHQ security breach); or, if you're storing OAuth tokens that could, in the wrong hands, screw with somebody's account on a 3rd party service. (Of course, you should never encrypt passwords: those should be hashed.)

Imagine you have a Mongoose model like that shown below, which is modified only slighly from the example on the MongooseJS homepage.

var mongoose = require('mongoose');
mongoose.connect('mongodb://localhost/test');

var User = mongoose.model('User', {
 name: String,