Monthly archive for December 2006
aSSL – securing communication without SSL
Francesco Sullo has just published his aSSL library (that powers also the PassPack service): It’s a nifty javascript library that allows encrypted communication between a browser and a server without using https.
I don’t see if this is possible but I think it would be nice if it allowed encrypted communication between two browsers, with the server being unable to read the exchange, just acting as a message passer. I’ll look deeper into this as soon as i have some time.
Rails Query Analyzer Plugin (now also on Oracle and Postgresql!)
A few days ago I discovered the query_analyzer plugin in a comment on the last article of The Rails Way series. It allows you to have the plans for the queries used in your application directly in the log file and this is invaluable when trying to to optimize the database for you shiny new rails application.
On the downside it was only for mysql and my oracle developer half though that it was what I needed, so here it is (with Postgresql support as well).
Use it but be warned that I don’t want to fork this plugin, so I haven’t prepared a proper svn access to it and I hope that my additions might be integrated by Bob Silva in his own codebase (I’ll post a comment in his blog since I can’t find any other way to contact him).