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		<title>Generating RSA Key Pairs in Ruby</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve given a number of examples of using Public-key cryptography in blog posts and in the Strongbox documentation, but I&#8217;ve always generated the RSA key pair using the openssl command line tool, i.e.
% openssl genrsa -des3 -out private.pem 2048
Generating RSA private key, 2048 bit long modulus
......+++
.+++
e is 65537 (0x10001)
Enter pass phrase for private.pem:
Verifying - Enter pass [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stuff-things.net/2009/12/11/generating-rsa-key-pairs-in-ruby/</link>
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		<title>Compiling Emacs.app on Snow Leopard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE: Emacs.app builds fine (and has for a while) as a 64 bit application.
As previous noted, when it comes to Emacs for the Mac, I&#8217;m a fan of Emacs.app.  However, Emacs.app is not quite ready for Snow Leopard&#8217;s 64 bit support.  You must compile it as a 32 bit executable.

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.savannah.gnu.org:/sources/emacs co [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stuff-things.net/2009/09/29/emacs-on-snow-leopard/</link>
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		<title>Pro Git</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Scott Chacon, one of the guys behind GitHub, has released Pro Git, which, as the name suggests, is a new Git book.   He&#8217;s made it available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike 3.0 license, which is to say it&#8217;s free.    It cover the basics you&#8217;d except, but really shines when it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stuff-things.net/2009/09/02/pro-git/</link>
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		<title>In defense of &#8220;unless&#8221; (in Ruby and elsewhere)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently came across John Nunemaker&#8217;s take on using &#8220;unless&#8221; in Ruby and thought I&#8217;d share my two cents.
The key to making your code more readable with &#8220;unless&#8221; to is is to think semantics, not syntax.  In spoken languages if there is more that one way to say something, there will be subtle differences [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stuff-things.net/2009/08/26/in-defense-of-unless/</link>
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		<title>Introducing Strongbox</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over a year ago I wrote the wildly popular Encrypting Lots of Sensitive Data with Ruby (on Rails).  At the end I said:
Clearly, this screams for a plugin;  watch this space.
Well, it took a while and it turned out to be a gem, but Strongbox has arrived.
First a recap:
You have a web application [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stuff-things.net/2009/04/17/introducing-strongbox/</link>
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		<title>Emacs on the Mac (Life has a funny way of sneaking up on you)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been using Emacs for more than 20 years now.   I still use it just about everyday on servers I admin.   However, a year or so ago I started using TextMate as my day to day editor for development on the Mac.  TextMate has some nice features:  a very [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stuff-things.net/2009/01/06/emacs-on-the-mac/</link>
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		<title>Dealing with read-only fields and partial updates in Rails 1.x</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, you have a column in your database you can&#8217;t update after the record is created.   Not don&#8217;t want to update, but can&#8217;t.  Specifically, you might have a column that is protected by a trigger, which will cause an error if that column is included in a update.  How do you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stuff-things.net/2008/09/03/dealing-with-read-only-fields-and-partial-updates-in-rails-1x/</link>
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		<title>Quick and Dirty cropping images with attachment_fu</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rick Olson&#8217;s attachment_fu is a great plugin for attaching files documents to Rails models.  It&#8217;s a rewrite of his acts_as_attachment plugin.  While it can handle any kind of file data, most commonly, it is used for attaching images; as a result attachment_fu handles automatic resizing of images, and creation of thumbnails using RMagick, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stuff-things.net/2008/02/21/quick-and-dirty-cropping-images-with-attachment_fu/</link>
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		<title>Encrypting Lots of Sensitive Data with Ruby (on Rails)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Previously I wrote about how to use public key encryption to automatically encrypt data using Ruby (and thus Rails).  Because this method can encrypt data without a password, it&#8217;s very useful for securing information received from a form, without the person entering the from having to do anything special.   However public key [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stuff-things.net/2008/02/05/encrypting-lots-of-sensitive-data-with-ruby-on-rails/</link>
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		<title>Encrypting Sensitive Data with Ruby (on Rails)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Encrypting Sensitive Data with Perl I wrote about how to use public key encryption to automatically and securely encrypt information with Perl.  This allows you encryption things like credit card numbers, bank routing information, or that winning PowerBall number in a unattended fashion.   Typically, you would use this in a situation [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stuff-things.net/2007/06/11/encrypting-sensitive-data-with-ruby-on-rails/</link>
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