Don’t forget to clear your client side state when logging a user out
When a user logs out from our web site, we are used to clearing the session and that’s it. When you are developing a single page application, you are likely to keep a lot of state on the client side, and that should be cleared too. For Ninja Tools, that meant...
Forcing SSL in a Luminus application
We tend to be very security conscious at Carousel Apps and one thing we often do is force all our applications to run over TLS (aka SSL), that is, when you go to http://example.com we redirect you to https://example.com. This little article will show you how to do it...
Run bundler-audit during testing
There’s a gem called bundler-audit that checks whether any of the gems in your project have open security advisors against them. A year or so ago there was an infamous month in which Rails itself got three of those. It was terrible and I think bundler-audit is a...Encrypted home in Ubuntu 8.10
This article is like a third edition to “Encrypted home in Ubuntu (or Kubuntu… or Debian…)”, although I keep changing the name. It’s the 8.10 edition. Many things changed and I updated the article for those, and the rest should work as well....Currently working on:
MoviePal
Spend less time choosing, and more time watching movies.
MoviePal helps you and your partner or your friends choose what movies to watch. It’s a social network that lets you connect with friends, rate movies, get recommendations, run watch parties, keep your list of movies to watch, etc.
Bestie
Don’t ask for help,
get help.
It’s an app to help friends check in on each other. Periodically it will ask: Are you okay? If there’s no response it will alert your friends to reach out to you. When you are down, all you need to do is nothing.
I'm writting a book...
Building and Managing
Distributed Teams
In this book I distill the techniques and methods that I’ve been using and advising others to use to successfully run distributed teams and whole companies. This book will be short, to the point, tactical, and have tool recommendations.
