Behanisms - Michael Behan’s Blog

Posted on 30th May, 2009 | No Comment

After losing my dedicated server (including all of my rails plugins) due to reasons beyond explanation, I was very excited  to discover that HowFlow has a backup copy of my CipherMail Ruby on Rails plugin. I have added it to my GitHub account!

For those of you not already familiar with Ciphermail, here is the synopsis:

CipherMail provides a safe alternative to the mail_to helper by hiding mailto links from e-mail harvesting bots. The generated output is completely obfuscated by a 1024 bit random key. They keyword is stored on the server, so it is never revealed to the client. Processing is performed on the server-side via an AJAX request and the decrypted redirect is returned to the client, opening a mail composer window… just like normala mailto link.

Posted on 30th May, 2009 | No Comment

So after a year of working with a lot of proprietary technologies and using Perforce as my primary SCM, I have decided it is time to join the sensation and begin using Git. So far I have been very pleased with Git’s features as well as its ease of use. For someone who has mostly used SubVersion and Perforce, Git is extremely simple to learn. I was up and running with Git in just a few minutes.

There is a fantastic website for Git users called GitHub. It is essentially a SourceForge dedicated to Git users. Unlike SourceForge, GitHub offers an intuitive and simple interface. Sorry, SourceForge… but you mandate way too many clicks to download software! Github is where it’s at!

You can view my Github profile here: http://github.com/jabberwock.