Custom Site & Store Builder with Energy Inc.

The Energy Detective (TED) is a consumer based product that helps home users track their energy usage on a per-device or cross-household level. When Energy Inc, the makers or TED needed to upgrade their site with an easy-to update content management system (CMS) and the addition of a custom storefront, they came to Cyber Sprocket Labs. Within months we had ported their old static-page driven site to our new custom site builder. They could now easily update their own content without getting developers involved, and better yet - the system protected them from inadvertently breaking their site design. The staff at Energy Inc. soon became experts at the system and added new content as well as new product models to the site. The site also started with a simple storefront module. It allowed Energy Inc. to upload new products and track inventory levels to ensure ...

Logon To Your Linux Box Using SSH Keys

I've been recently working with AWS EC2 instances and have found that the SSH keys that they require for secure login practices actually have some nice benefits. For one thing, once I've generated a keyfile that uniquely identifies me on my local PC, I can use that keyfile to quickly and easily login to any server without having to remember passwords and login credentials. Having to get in and out of over a dozen different servers every week, and nearly 100 different servers over the course of a year, the use of key sharing certainly has the potential to save a lot of keystrokes. In a nutshell, here is the pieces that make it work: Create a unique fingerprint on your local machine Initalize the SSH environment for your user login on the remote environment Store that fingerprint in the SSH environment on the remote system Once you have completed these steps, you will be ...