Minishift allows running a mini-version of Openshift cluster locally for convenience of development and debug. This blog is going through how to run minishift on MacOS.

Installing Node.JS locally will take no more than 5 minutes. This post will go through the steps very quickly.

Node.JS has been attracting attentions for years. What is Node.JS? What makes it unique? Why should developers care about it?

Although Openshift is able to use docker images, it has much more restrictions like no root user. Thus not all docker images can work straight on Openshift. Unfortunately, the official nginx docker image does not work on openshift.

In this post, I will simply go through how to run this Official RedHat nginx image on Openshift and deploy a website onto it.

Using XMLHTTPRequest (ajax) transporting data between client and server has been popular for a while. Sometimes, we want our browser to retrieve binary data from server (as ArrayBuffer or Blob) such as pdf, image, and psd files. This post will go through how to achieve it with XMLHTTPRequest and jQuery.

It is incredibly easy to make a rich web application like psdetch working offline with Service Worker. 5 minutes are all you need!

Step 1 Prepare tools

To setup a brand new raspberrypi zero w you need prepare following tools:

• A raspberrypi zero w
• mini HDMI to HDMI convert
• Micro SD card
• USB OTG
• Mouse & Keyboard
• An external SD card reader

All coneectors can come from seller when you purchase Raspberrypi zero w.

Taking screenshots with MacOSX is very useful when writting blogs or documents. The system has powerful built-in screenshot function. However, the default location to store the screenshot files is Desktop.

This blog will go through how to change the location of screenshots to another folder.

WebWorker has now been supported by majority of browsers (link). I have started to use WebWorkers seriously in my projects (web pages / web apps / cordova mobile apps).

Below reference pages were used while doing my study:

• Using webworkers
• webworker and phonegap

I found this tutorial is relatively simple to follow to create a simple PKI infrastructure

Run docker in docker

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docker run --privileged -i -t -d --restart=unless-stopped -p 2376:2376 -p 10000-11000:10000-11000 -p 10000-11000:10000-11000/udp -v /mnt/opt:/opt:rw -v /etc/docker:/etc/docker:ro -v /mnt/var/lib/docker:/var/lib/docker --name=docker docker:dind  -H tcp://0.0.0.0:2376 --storage-driver=aufs --tlsverify --tlscacert /etc/docker/ca.pem --tlscert /etc/docker/server.pem --tlskey /etc/docker/server-key.pem

Netcat (nc) is very powerful tool. Install apt-get install netcat
Send UDP packet with netcat:

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echo "content goes to server" | nc -u <ip> <port>

e.g.

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.select-type-1{
  -webkit-appearance: none;
  -moz-appearance: none;
  appearance: none;
  padding:1em;
  border:1px solid #ee7122;
  color:white;
  text-align: center;
  border-radius: 0px;
  -webkit-border-radius: 0px;
  background: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.12) url("../img/arrowdown.png") no-repeat 90% 50%;
  background-size:10%;
}

self-explained.

To create an overlay network on multiple hosts over swarm, following are required:

• a key-value store service: this is used for broadcasting hosts / swarm agents. It can be same kv store swarm used for discovery
• Run docker daemon with following parameters:
  • cluster-store: where the store is
  • cluster-advertise: what network interface to be advertised
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    docker

According to this, do following to determine the client ipaddress:

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var ip = (req.headers['x-forwarded-for'] ||
     req.connection.remoteAddress ||
     req.socket.remoteAddress ||
     req.connection.socket.remoteAddress).split(",")[0];

Testing with web app is always fun. Angularjs makes it even better.
This quick note bootstrap any angular.js projects embracing with unit tests.

Tools

Unit testing in Angularjs is using (by default) Jasmine and Karma.

Also, angular-mocks needs to be installed. It is needed for injection and some other mock objects.

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bower install --save angular-mocks

According to mongoose.js doc, it is able to set setters to a field on schema.
However, the doc is not quite detailed and obselete.
Some example:

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var schema=new Schema({
  password:{
    type:String,
    required:true,
    set:hash
  }
})

function hash(plainPwd){
  return require("crypto").createHash("sha1").update(plainPwd).update(secret).digest("hex");
}

Mongodb needs extra collection for two phase lock.

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var transactionSchema=new Schema({
  lastModified:Date,
  status:{
    type:String,
    default:"new",
    index:true
  },
  data:{}
})

The transaction life cycle is new->pending->applied->done

When put wordpress blog behind a reverse proxy (e.g. nginx), some headers have to be setup:

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proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;

proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
proxy_set_header HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO $scheme;

minimist is a lightweight cli argument (command line arguments) parser:

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require('minimist')("-x 3 -y 4 -n5 -abc --beep=boop foo bar baz");

//output:
{ _: [ 'foo', 'bar', 'baz' ],
  x: 3,
  y: 4,
  n: 5,
  a: true,
  b: true,
  c: true,
  beep: 'boop' }

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-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
-moz-osx-font-smoothing: grayscale

Makes text clearer

What is Docker and why?

See here

In short:

• Docker is a container tech based on LXC
• Much less resource than VM by sharing cores
• But provide full run-time isolation
• It makes system deployment much faster
• and easier system operation

Still don’t know why? Check out use cases here

Resize

Switch on / off resize of a textarea on horizontal / vertical / both.

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<textarea style="resize:horizontal"></textarea>

The resize property can be either:

• vertical: only resize vertically
• horizontal: only resize horizontally
• none: disable resize (also remove the resize area on right bottom.)

Outline

Remove or change style of outline when textarea is focused on safari / chrome etc.

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<textarea class="customize"></textarea>

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.customize:focus{
  outline-color:red;
}

Today, I moved my blog from Wordpress to Hexo. I use github.io to host the blog.

The reason I choose Hexo not Jekyll mainly is I am more familiar with Node.js than Ruby so I can write plugins easily.

Hexo is a very powerful static content generator which converts MarkDown posts to Html.

Demo: Click here

Document & API: See Github site for more information.