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# Bind SSL port with PFS-enabling cipher suite
bind :443 ssl crt path_to_certificate no-tls-tickets ciphers ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA:AES128-GCM-SHA256:AES256-GCM-SHA384:AES128-SHA256:AES128-SHA:AES256-SHA256:AES256-SHA:RC4-SHA

# Distinguish between secure and insecure requests
acl secure dst_port eq 443

# Mark all cookies as secure if sent over SSL
rsprep ^Set-Cookie:\ (.*) Set-Cookie:\ \1;\ Secure if secure

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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

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Oops! I accidentally deleted a local git branch, and I haven't pushed it to a remote server yet. The branch has several important commits, and it hasn't been merged with any other branches yet. How do I find the missing branch?

1. Create a list of all dangling or unreachable commits.

$ git fsck --full --no-reflogs --unreachable --lost-found
unreachable tree 4a407b1b09e0d8a16be70aa1547332432a698e18
unreachable tree 5040d8cf08c78119e66b9a3f8c4b61a240229259
unreachable tree 60c0ce61b040f5e604850f747f525e88043dae12
unreachable tree f080522d06b9853a2f18eeeb898724da4af7aed9

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# USAGE: Hash.from_xml:(YOUR_XML_STRING)
require 'nokogiri'
# modified from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1230741/convert-a-nokogiri-document-to-a-ruby-hash/1231297#1231297

class Hash
  class << self
    def from_xml(xml_io) 
      begin
        result = Nokogiri::XML(xml_io)
        return { result.root.name.to_sym => xml_node_to_hash(result.root)} 

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#!/bin/bash

# https://gist.github.com/949831
# http://blog.carbonfive.com/2011/05/04/automated-ad-hoc-builds-using-xcode-4/

# command line OTA distribution references and examples
# http://nachbaur.com/blog/how-to-automate-your-iphone-app-builds-with-hudson
# http://nachbaur.com/blog/building-ios-apps-for-over-the-air-adhoc-distribution
# http://blog.octo.com/en/automating-over-the-air-deployment-for-iphone/
# http://www.neat.io/posts/2010/10/27/automated-ota-ios-app-distribution.html

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require 'yaml'
require 'uri'
require 'tempfile'
require 'tmpdir'

SDK_DIR = "/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneSimulator4.3.sdk"
TESTFLIGHT_URL = 'http://testflightapp.com/api/builds.json'

PROJECT_DIR = File.dirname __FILE__
RUBIOS_DIR = File.join(PROJECT_DIR, 'rubios')

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#!/usr/bin/env ruby

# This script is intended to preprocess a knife ec2 server create command and 
# generate a user_data script in the /tmp folder that will rename the host
# to match whatever the node name is before the chef bootstrapping process
# begins.  It then splits the knife command in front of the --node-name or -N
# options and inserts "--user-data /tmp/server-01.userdata" (in the example 
# below) and execs the command.
# 
# Usage:

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(deftheme bubbleberry "bubbleberry")

;; Based on the theme used for LightTable (see: http://www.chris-granger.com/images/lightable/main.png )

(custom-theme-set-variables
 'bubbleberry
 '(linum-format " %7i ")
 '(fringe-mode 5 nil (fringe))
 '(powerline-color1 "#3d3d68")
 '(powerline-color2 "#292945")

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Latency numbers every programmer should know

L1 cache reference ......................... 0.5 ns
Branch mispredict ............................ 5 ns
L2 cache reference ........................... 7 ns
Mutex lock/unlock ........................... 25 ns
Main memory reference ...................... 100 ns             
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy ............. 3,000 ns  =   3 µs
Send 2K bytes over 1 Gbps network ....... 20,000 ns  =  20 µs
SSD random read ........................ 150,000 ns  = 150 µs

Read 1 MB sequentially from memory ..... 250,000 ns = 250 µs

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OS X Preferences

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most of these require logout/restart to take effect

# Enable character repeat on keydown
defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false

# Set a shorter Delay until key repeat