According to its official description, “Sequelize is a promise-based Node.js ORM for Postgres, MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite and Microsoft SQL Server.” Sequelize is widely used in Node.js web applications to abstract the database layer. I recently found a “corner case” for Sequelize which is possible to accomplish, but is not well documented anywhere on the web. […]
Node.js: Connecting to MySQL on a socket with Sequelize Read More »
curl, or an application that uses libcurl, may have a problem with an SSL certificate that works fine when using a web browser to access the same URL. Typical error output from curl looks like this: $ curl -v https://my-subdomain.mysecuresite.com Trying xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:443… TCP_NODELAY set Connected to my-subdomain.mysecuresite.com (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) port 443 (#0) ALPN, offering h2 ALPN,
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openssl is the standard open-source, command-line tool for manipulating SSL/TLS certificates on Linux, MacOS, and other UNIX-like systems. I recently ran into an interesting problem using openssl to convert a private key obtained from GoDaddy. Someone else used GoDaddy’s “wizard” interface to generate a certificate signing request (CSR) and private key, and saved the files
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Updated 2017-08-01 to fix typo and use new demo URL. Also note that the Homebrew package manager has matured since this post was first published in 2012. Once you’ve configured Homebrew, installing a tool like wget is as simple as running brew install wget wget is an incredibly useful GNU tool on Linux. Unfortunately, it
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The following kernel configuration was posted by Alessandro Di Marco as a comment on a previous post in which I provided a Linux kernel config for an earlier version of the kernel. In the interest of sharing his contribution, I’m placing it in its own post. I don’t know the author personally and I have
Linux kernel 3.1 config for Gentoo guest on VMWare Fusion Read More »
Here is an xorg.conf for a Gentoo guest running in VMWare Fusion on MacOS 10.6 (Snow Leopard). It’s surprisingly simple to set up X when the hardware is fake 😉 Gentoo runs great on a Macbook Pro 13″. I was concerned at first about the lack of 3D acceleration, but I tried a few 3D
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I recently installed Gentoo Linux (amd64) as a guest on my Mac (OS 10.6 Snow Leopard) using VMWare Fusion. I thought I’d post the kernel config that I am using, since I didn’t find any out there that I trusted. If you can use this as a starting point, then it should save you some
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