Drop in replace functions for setTimeout and setInterval that make use of requestAnimationFrame.
See overview article and Paul Irish's earlier post.
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Copyright 2011, Joe Lambert.
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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,