Archive for March, 2009
The first thing we need to do is understand certificates and how they work, not just in theory, but in practice. Then we’ll proceed to create our own root certificate authority. In Part II, we’ll secure a WCF service using a certificate. An introduction to digital certificates The idea of certificates is that someone we [...]
I just installed an update to dasBlog, and I decided against porting the changes I had made to dasBlog. Partly because some of the things I had changed were bug fixes that had been addressed by this update. And while I was at it, I designed a new theme. This theme is designed to be [...]
My fiancée found this hilarious website called this is why you’re fat. They showcase some of the strangest and most disturbing culinary concoctions ever seen, which all have one thing in common. They make you fat. Most of the stuff they display made me cringe, some even made me outright nauseous. It is not for [...]
Whenever I get my hands on a new piece of technology, I always try and experiment with it using real-world problems that I encounter. This not only helps me learn the technology, but also to evaluate it for my current and upcoming projects. And this weekend, I’ve been fiddling around with MGrammar, which is a [...]
As we develop applications, services, databases and so on, we often find ourselves repeating some of the same tasks. Eventually such code often gets refactored into separate libraries that are then shared across multiple projects. The utility libraries. I am currently developing and maintaining such a library at work, consisting of dozens of classes ranging [...]
I came across this video on YouTube, and I have to admit, it really made me smile. A lot. Did you know 3.0 It’s “common knowledge-in-your-face” at its best. Have a look! Technorati Tags: Internet
When I decided to start this blog, I thought to myself that I’d celebrate when and if the blog ever got a total of one thousand hits. This weekend I decided to have a look and see how far toward that goal the blog had gotten. Imagine my surprise when I learned that the blog [...]
I needed the ability to pass along information about the client to a service, without having to explicitly specify them as parameters in the operations. The easiest way to do this, is to implement a behavior extension on the WCF client that will grab the information and inject it into the WCF message as headers. [...]
