These days you need an intermediate cert when using an SSL. Last time I set up a cert from Network Solutions, this intermediate cert was clearly named. This time around they issued quite a few certs and it made it confusing.

• AddTrustExternalCARoot.crt
• MY.DOMAIN.COM.crt
• NetworkSolutions_CA.crt
• UTNAddTrustServer_CA.crt

The two certs we care about here are MY.DOMAIN.COM.crt, my site's ssl cert, and NetworkSolutions_CA.crt, Network Solution's intermediate key.

Ok, now the tricky part. With old Apache, there was a specific directive for defining the intermediate cert. Nginx participates in no such thing. With Nginx we just need to cat our two certs together.

cat MY.DOMAIN.COM.crt NetworkSolutions_CA.crt > combined.crt

Now just add this to your conf with:

ssl_certificate /usr/local/nginx/certs/combined.crt;

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About a month ago I launched my first iPhone application, Summizer.

Summizer allows you to search Twitter and save your searches. Saved searches are basically trends. No one really wants to search Twitter, not in the way you search Google. What you really want to do is track what people are saying about a certain topic. This might be your company, your company's product, your favorite band, or even you.

Just like Twitter, Summizer is a bit tough to grok its usefulness, until you use it. Once you get it, play with it, and add your own trends, you are addicted to it. Its the ultimate 1 minute use app. Waiting for the train? Bust out Summizer and see what people are saying about the election. Waiting in line for food? Bust out Summizer to see what people are saying about your new Rails plugin.

Once you start using Summizer, it will become as useful as your feed reader. And thats a promise!

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Rmagick. It sucks, I know. We all hate it. But you have apps that depend on it and haven't changed that yet. So you need it installed for development. And you hate installing it.

But really, its not that installing RMagick sucks, its installing ImageMagick that sucks. Its hard. But the only thing worse than hard, is stupid ass MacPorts. Which is ********.

So all I hear is people complain over and over about having to install it. Meanwhile there has been a script to install ImageMagick and RMagick on OS X forever, but people just don't seem to know its there.

I tell people about it and they just ignore me and then complain about installing RMagick to me later on!! WTF?!

So, I've had it. When you format or get a new computer go here: http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=12&release_id=21634

Download rm_install

That old script isn't maintained and never works. I've decided to post one myself on GitHub with the hope that people will not only use it, but make sure it never gets stale. Grab it here: http://www.github.com/maddox/magick-installer

Now, once its downloaded. Do this:

sudo ./magick-installer.sh

and let it run forever. Done. Pretty easy right? There. PLEASE USE IT. Its a fantastic script that works really well. Its not hard to install ImageMagick anymore! Dance!

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BeCamp 2008 is this weekend in Charlottesville, Va. I'm pretty excited since this will be my first BarCamp. It seems that every time I have a chance to go to one the timing has been bad.

If you're in the area, defiantly come up for what is going to be a great time. I'm planning on doing a demo of my sweet barcode scanner integration.

Mustache is sponsoring breakfast on Saturday morning. So if you see me, come say hi.

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