Category Archives: General

Storing Passwords Securely 2

Posted on 2012-10-25 by jcs

A few days ago, I wrote about the Stormpath Video on how to secure passwords. Now Stormpath has published a blog post that covers the same material. This is good stuff and if you’re working on a site that handles … Continue reading →

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Finding Command Suffixes

Posted on 2012-10-24 by jcs

After my post on How To Really Quit, I scanned through the Emacs section of Brian Zwahr’s Dev and Such blog. He’s got a ton of good Emacs tips there (many from his previous Blog Emacs Journey, which he’s merged … Continue reading →

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Emacs Net Utilities

Posted on 2012-10-23 by jcs

I came across a post by mulander over at My Opera about his journey to Emacs. I found it interesting because it closely paralleled my experience: a long time Vim user moves to Emacs to get Slime. When I did … Continue reading →

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How To Really Quit

Posted on 2012-10-22 by jcs

Brian Zwahr over at Dev and Such shares a very useful tip. Very often you’re in some buffer such as *HELP* and type 【q】 to quit the buffer. This, however, merely buries the buffer. Most often you want to get … Continue reading →

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An Interview with François-René (Faré) Rideau

Posted on 2012-10-21 by jcs

Vsevolod Dyomkin over at Lisp, the Universe and Everything has posted another in his series of interviews with Lisp luminaries. This time it’s with François-René (Faré) Rideau one of the key developers at ITA and an author of the Google … Continue reading →

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Storing Passwords Securely

Posted on 2012-10-20 by jcs

I’ve written several posts about securely storing passwords (this one for instance). Here’s a video from Stormpath featuring their CTO Les Hazlewood that covers the same material for those who prefer a visual presentation. Hazlewood covers various levels of password … Continue reading →

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Emacs Movies

Posted on 2012-10-19 by jcs

How did I miss this? Noufal Ibrahim is producing a series of videos on using Emacs. The plan calls for four sections: Basics Applicaations Programming Elisp So far, he finished Section 1 with a total of 10 videos. To give … Continue reading →

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Some Tool Tips

Posted on 2012-10-18 by jcs

As long time readers know, I am always looking for ways to make my work flow more nearly frictionless. This mainly involves adapting my existing tools (especially Emacs) and adopting new tools. I recently came across a couple of posts … Continue reading →

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mu4e

Posted on 2012-10-17 by jcs

DJCB over at EMACS-FU is announcing the release of Version 0.9.9 of mu4e, his Emacs-based email client. It looks good enough that I am tempted to give up the native Mac email client1. It has dynamic folders that will move … Continue reading →

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Comment Spam

Posted on 2012-10-16 by jcs

Patrick Lambert over at Dendory Blog has a really nice solution to comment spam. He noticed that he never receives any comment spam and decided to investigate why. It turns out that his immunity is an artifact of the way … Continue reading →

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