pboling

I upgraded to El Capitan, with Homebrew & Ruby, and this is how I did it flawlessly.

... and Xcode and Java, etc.

Prepare

If you don't already have homebrew installed, do that first, so you don't have to deal with SIP issues. Install all Software Updates available in the Apple Menu, up to and including El Capitan.

Hardware

StefanWallin

Protocol Introduction

Thinking about the protocol, I'm thinking about extendability. The client should be able to present commands it knows during handshake. Each feature of the API should have a version that is supported.

All commands should have three top level entries in it's envelope:

• c — command is a string representation of the command you whish to execute through RPC. Max length of this parameter is 20 byte characters
• t — a server generated token specific for each connected client that is passed out on each response and consumed for each client request. TODO: Specify the data type of the token and length
• d — arbitrary data in a json object that the command for this version should know how to execute.

konklone

# Basically the nginx configuration I use at konklone.com. 
# I check it using https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=konklone.com
# 
# To provide feedback, please tweet at @konklone or email eric@konklone.com.
# Comments on gists don't notify the author. 
# 
# Thanks to WubTheCaptain (https://wubthecaptain.eu) for his help and ciphersuites.
# Thanks to Ilya Grigorik (https://www.igvita.com) for constant inspiration.

server {

jed

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