domenic

This article has been given a more permanent home on my blog. Also, since it was first written, the development of the Promises/A+ specification has made the original emphasis on Promises/A seem somewhat outdated.

You're Missing the Point of Promises

Promises are a software abstraction that makes working with asynchronous operations much more pleasant. In the most basic definition, your code will move from continuation-passing style:

getTweetsFor("domenic", function (err, results) {
 // the rest of your code goes here.

davestevens

Let's Encrypt

Examples of getting certificates from Let's Encrypt working on Apache, NGINX and Node.js servers.

Obtain certificates

I chose to use the manual method, you have to make a file available to verify you own the domain. Follow the commands from running

git clone https://github.com/letsencrypt/letsencrypt
cd letsencrypt

textarcana

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# Use this one-liner to produce a JSON literal from the Git log:

git log \
    --pretty=format:'{%n  "commit": "%H",%n  "author": "%aN <%aE>",%n  "date": "%ad",%n  "message": "%f"%n},' \
    $@ | \
    perl -pe 'BEGIN{print "["}; END{print "]\n"}' | \
    perl -pe 's/},]/}]/'

tedmiston

/*
In the node.js intro tutorial (http://nodejs.org/), they show a basic tcp 
server, but for some reason omit a client connecting to it.  I added an 
example at the bottom.

Save the following server in example.js:
*/

var net = require('net');

balupton

// Create our server
var server;
server = http.createServer(function(req,res){
	// Set CORS headers
	res.setHeader('Access-Control-Allow-Origin', '*');
	res.setHeader('Access-Control-Request-Method', '*');
	res.setHeader('Access-Control-Allow-Methods', 'OPTIONS, GET');
	res.setHeader('Access-Control-Allow-Headers', '*');
	if ( req.method === 'OPTIONS' ) {
		res.writeHead(200);

trinitronx

#!/bin/sh
# 2021-12-09:
#   This script is no longer supported!
#   Apple broke all direct downloads without logging with an Apple ID first.
#   The number of hoops that a script would need to jump through to login,
#   store cookies, and download is prohibitive.
#   Now we all must manually download and mirror the files for this to work at all :'-(

OSX_VERS=$(sw_vers -productVersion | awk -F "." '{print $2}')

AndiDittrich

// SPDX-License-Identifier: MPL-2.0

// AES Encryption/Decryption with AES-256-GCM using random Initialization Vector + Salt
// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// the encrypted datablock is base64 encoded for easy data exchange. 
// if you have the option to store data binary save consider to remove the encoding to reduce storage size
// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// format of encrypted data - used by this example. not an official format
//
// +--------------------+-----------------------+----------------+----------------+

mayoff

(* To the extent possible under law, Rob Mayoff has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to “AppleScript to make Google Chrome open/reload a URL”. This work is published from: United States. https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ *)
tell application "Google Chrome"
	activate
	set theUrl to "http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/cgi-bin/timer.pl"
	
	if (count every window) = 0 then
		make new window
	end if
	
	set found to false

CatTail

// encode(decode) html text into html entity
var decodeHtmlEntity = function(str) {
  return str.replace(/&#(\d+);/g, function(match, dec) {
    return String.fromCharCode(dec);
  });
};

var encodeHtmlEntity = function(str) {
  var buf = [];
  for (var i=str.length-1;i>=0;i--) {

facultymatt

{
  "directory": "components"
}