Robert Sosinski

Ruby on Rails seems to be driving more and more toward RESTful programming. However, my search for ideas on how to make a truly RESTful authentication system came up pretty dry. I either found systems that were not as RESTful as I wanted or far to complex then I deemed necessary. As such, I gave some thought on how to make my own.

The result was creating a very simple, flexible and RESTful system. By seeing how I made it, you will also learn more about RESTful programming, understand how to use it within Rails and experience how it keeps your code base lean and clean. Read the rest of this entry »

PGP, or Pretty Good Privacy, is a commonly used and very secure encryption program using public key cryptography. Through PGP, you can encrypt information such as messages, documents and files in a manner so that only the recipient can decrypt and open them.

The goal of this tutorial is to get you up and running with PGP through terminal and familiar with its operation. Read the rest of this entry »