pudquick

brew is a bad neighbor

This isn't a guide about locking down homebrew so that it can't touch the rest of your system security-wise.

This guide doesn't fix the inherent security issues of a package management system that will literally yell at you if you try to do something about "huh, maybe it's not great my executables are writeable by my account without requiring authorization first".

But it absolutely is a guide about shoving it into its own little corner so that you can take it or leave it as you see fit, instead of just letting the project do what it likes like completely taking over permissions and ownership of a directory that might be in use by other software on your Mac and stomping all over their contents.

By following this guide you will:

• Never have to run sudo to forcefully change permissions of some directory to be owned by your account

wesbos

Increase the number of "Recent Places" that OSX shows in save dialogs. This allows you to quickly save files without having to dig through nested folders.

1. Open your terminal and run defaults write .GlobalPreferences NSNavRecentPlacesLimit -int 10 && killall Finder
2. OSX will now save 10, instead of the default. You won't see it take effect right away, but only after you save 5 more things.
3. Enjoy your better life.

telent

App configuration in environment variables: for and against

For (some of these as per the 12 factor principles) 

1) they are are easy to change between deploys without changing any code

2) unlike config files, there is little chance of them being checked
into the code repo accidentally

3) unlike custom config files, or other config mechanisms such as Java

rothgar

###Deploy SSH key to ansible inventory###

for server in $(ansible --list-hosts all); do ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub $server; done

crazybyte

For symmetic encryption, you can use the following:

To encrypt:
openssl aes-256-cbc -salt -a -e -in plaintext.txt -out encrypted.txt

To decrypt:
openssl aes-256-cbc -salt -a -d -in encrypted.txt -out plaintext.txt


For Asymmetric encryption you must first generate your private key and extract the public key.

adamcameron

/**
	ClassViewer.cfc
	@hint An almost pure CFML implementation of ClassViewer.class (see http://adamcameroncoldfusion.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/classviewerjava.html).
	@description   
*/
component {

	// these are just for formatting the output	
	variables._NL		= createObject("java", "java.lang.System").getProperty("line.separator");
	variables._INDENT	= "    ";