The 6th incarnation of Elmer's blog
What is Let’s Encrypt?
Basically, it’s a way to get a quick x509 certificate for your server without knowing much about what is a x509 certificate:
Let’s Encrypt Overview – http://www.cryptologie.net/article/274/lets-encrypt-overview/
If this works out it will go skiing way to securing all web traffic. The Let’s Encrypt site is at https://letsencrypt.org/ and the code is open source at https://github.com/letsencrypt.
The New M4 Instance Type (Bonus: Price Reduction on M3 & C4) | AWS Official Blog https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/the-new-m4-instance-type-bonus-price-reduction-on-m3-c4/
Google’s New Smart Lock Is the Password Manager for the Rest of Us http://lifehacker.com/googles-new-smart-lock-is-the-password-manager-for-the-1710352668
How to get the Windows 10 upgrade notification to appear in Windows 7 or 8.x | BetaNews http://betanews.com/2015/06/10/how-to-get-the-windows-10-upgrade-notification-to-appear-in-windows-7-or-8-x/
The open-source LaunchRock alternative. Build beautiful splash pages to collect emails & more – primarily focused on performance and rapid development.
Gulp AWS Splash https://github.com/niftylettuce/gulp-aws-splash
You’ve seen those spiffy one page announcement sites for the web’s next big thing. This is an open source system that helps you build them quickly and easily. The idea is to acquire customers quickly and these pages are designed to do that.
Requires node.js and npm. Makes use of Google Analytics, Mailchimp, and various AWS services.