OpenSSH’s SOCKS forwarding

Sunday, 01. 18. 2009  –  Category: stash, web

It’s always great to discover a feature in a tool you use everyday. Someone pointed out to me that, in addition to local and remote port forwarding, OpenSSH also offers what it calls dynamic application-level port forwarding. Put more simply, OpenSSH can act as a local SOCKS proxy punting the traffic out the remote end […]

Using Single Sign-On To Integrate Ning With An External Site

Wednesday, 08. 20. 2008  –  Category: all, sw, web

Overview Ning provide off the peg hosted social networks. The service is free unless you pay to not have their context-driven ads on your pages. Within a few minutes of sign-up you’re away. Particulary cool is that they will let you at the source of your network. You can’t then wander off and run it […]

High Availability Rails Cluster

Tuesday, 08. 19. 2008  –  Category: all, sw, web

I’ve been asked about this a few times, so I figured I’d post here. This is a brief description of a highly available Rails cluster I’ve built. Some preliminaries: There’s no invention here, I believe this setup is very common. High availability isn’t the same thing as load balanced. There is nothing here to intelligently […]