Caffeine, silicon and nimesulide

My blog’s theme customizations

I wanted to change my dark theme, so a week ago, I started with the minimalistic theme and edited it in my spare time:

• I wanted it wider, so I set body width to 700px from 500px
• removed cufon to google web fonts (now using Josefin Sans)
• I often use tags to better give a context to my posts, so I added the tags visualization
• changed color for posts metadata and borders from #BCA474 to #85B5A5
• I removed some borders in header
• aligned all images and videos to the center of the page (they are still 500px wide)
• moved the search form below site description
• titles to the left
• added support to linkedin profile’s url

Next steps? To let users set some variables to customize it in a simple and immediate way (if you use tumblr you know what I mean) and then submit it to tumblr

• clean up css
• set #85B5A5 as a customizable field text
• set also the google font name as a textbox in the admin panel, to change font in seconds
• support other social networks in the menu

Css Font Stack

forcing text files to UTF-8 charset

first of all I use file utility to get the file charset, with -b and -i parameters to have a brief report, in mime type style:

michele@erakis:~$ file -bi file.txt
text/html; charset=unknown-8bit
michele@erakis:~$ vi file.txt


then in vi

:set encoding=utf-8
:set fileencoding=utf-8
:wq

let’s check

michele@erakis:~$ file -bi file.txt
text/html; charset=utf-8

AWS IAM Policy: give access to one bucket

Today I had to create a new user in our S3 account and to give him all permissions to just one bucket.

As you can see in our S3 file-manager implementation ( https://github.com/Mashape/file-manager ) I use these two lines to load credentials from a properties file and to connect to the S3 bucket

s3Service = new RestS3Service(awsCredentials);
bucket = s3Service.getBucket(properties.getProperty("s3.bucket"));

The second lines throws an exception if you don’t give s3:ListAllMyBuckets permission to that user. So the final policy I used is this:

{
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Action": [
        "s3:ListAllMyBuckets"
      ],
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::*"
    },
    {
      "Action": "s3:*",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:s3:::bucket",
        "arn:aws:s3:::bucket/*"
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Obviously you can avoid the “Action”: “s3:*” part and put just a list of actions you want to allow..