maxvt

Currently, there is an explosion of tools that aim to manage secrets for automated, cloud native infrastructure management. Daniel Somerfield did some work classifying the various approaches, but (as far as I know) no one has made a recent effort to summarize the various tools.

This is an attempt to give a quick overview of what can be found out there. The list is alphabetical. There will be tools that are missing, and some of the facts might be wrong--I welcome your corrections. For the purpose, I can be reached via @maxvt on Twitter, or just leave me a comment here.

There is a companion feature matrix of various tools. Comments are welcome in the same manner.

bauhouse

Installing Saxon/C PHP Extension on an Ubuntu 14.04 x64 Server

Saxonica recently released Saxon/C as a beta release of Saxon-HE on the C/C++ programming platform. APIs are offered currently to run XSLT 2.0 and XQuery 1.0 from C/C++ or PHP applications. Saxon/C is built from the Java product Saxon-HE 9.5.1.5 using the Excelsior JET tool [version 9.0 (MP2)]. The current release is Saxon-HE/C 0.3.1.

Follow the instructions to set up a server on DigitalOcean:

• How To Create Your First DigitalOcean Droplet Virtual Server
• Initial Server Setup with Ubuntu 14.04

Set Up Server on Digital Ocean Droplet

rojan

var crypto = require('crypto');
var key = 'MySecretKey12345';
var iv = '1234567890123456';
var cipher = crypto.createCipheriv('aes-128-cbc', key, iv);
var decipher = crypto.createDecipheriv('aes-128-cbc', key, iv);

var text = 'plain text';
var encrypted = cipher.update(text, 'utf8', 'binary');
encrypted += cipher.final('binary');
hexVal = new Buffer(encrypted, 'binary');

branneman

Better local require() paths for Node.js

Problem

When the directory structure of your Node.js application (not library!) has some depth, you end up with a lot of annoying relative paths in your require calls like:

const Article = require('../../../../app/models/article');

Those suck for maintenance and they're ugly.

Possible solutions

blongden

<?php
$fp = fsockopen('127.0.0.1', 6379, $errno, $errstr, 30);

$data = array();

if (!$fp) {
    die($errstr);
} else {
    fwrite($fp, "INFO\r\nQUIT\r\n");
    while (!feof($fp)) {