• node.js, express, mongo, and passport

    January 2, 2014 Author: RobinC
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    Building on the tutorial from http://cwbuecheler.com/web/tutorials/2013/node-express-mongo/ I wanted to add passport support to allow basic authentication to the site and there seemed to be a few too many conflicting and out of date instructions for what should have been a really simple process.

    The objective is local username/password authentication and as we are doing that we might as well be good and store a password hash not the actual password in the db. This could easily be extended to be properly salted etc.

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  • Sams4s RS232 protocol

    November 24, 2013 Author: RobinC
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    I’ve just launched my new project to be able to talk to and program Sams4s cash registers using open source tools, the code can be found at https://github.com/robincornelius/ECRComms it is not finished but what of it there is currently works with an ER-230 and in theory the backup/download should work with many other models. The actual editing will be model/version dependent and I will need help from others to make it work with more than just the two models I have here (the ER230 and the ER380M).

    I’ve also started a documentation project that can be found here this is the documentation of the protocol and file format as I work it out.

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