Category Archives: development

Redmine plugin for windows authentication

Redmine.org is an open source project management application. It is simple to setup and works great. It supports LDAP authentication out of the box. We recently setup Redmine for a project to run behind IIS using fastcgi and wanted to … Continue reading

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Foursquare on Windows Mobile

Foursquare does not have a windows mobile version of their application, so I thought it would be a great opportunity to try and build an app. Things that are working fairly well: Foursquare API access. JSON.NET is used to parse … Continue reading

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5 Great Microsoft .NET Developer Blogs

Scott Hanselman http://www.hanselman.com/ Dan Wahlin http://weblogs.asp.net/dwahlin/ The Morning Brew http://blog.cwa.me.uk/ Jon Galloway http://weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway/ Scott Gu http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/ I’m sure I missed a bunch.  What do you recommend?

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Security Tools for .NET Development

Security is a programmer’s responsibility.  Your project manager or client is not going to ask for security, but it is a basic implied requirement for any software project.  A good place to start is to look at the top ten … Continue reading

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Continuous Integration with Hudson

Recently I came across Hudson, an open source Continuous Integration server.   I often hear about cruise control, however it always seemed like it would be difficult to get setup. A Continuous Integration server can help you automate tasks in … Continue reading

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Maintenance and Support (Enterprise vs Open Source)

One the common concerns in using open source software at some companies is having formal maintenance and support contracts.  The crazy thing is that most enterprise software products come with really bad maintenance and support at high prices. Take for … Continue reading

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Windows Azure presentation

Yesterday I went to the Mid-Atlantic Cloud Computing user group in Reston, VA.  It’s a newly formed group that plans to meet once a month.  The topic of the evening was Windows Azure, in which Scott Zimmerman from Microsoft gave … Continue reading

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Table Sorting with JQuery

A very common request for HTML tables is making them sortable.  The requirement came up the other day and I used JQuery and the JQuery Plugin tablesorter.  JQuery is a excellent lightweight javascript library that is useful for all things … Continue reading

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Stackoverflow will answer all your programming questions

Lately I have been doing more .NET development and ultimately at some point you get stuck, forget how to do something, or wonder what the best practices for something is.  You immediately run a few google searches and get back … Continue reading

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How to migrate users in Oracle Webcenter Interaction

Webcenter Interation provides great tools for importing users from external user directories.  Depending on your user directory and configuration you set a unique identifier to use that is often not the username.  I have ran across a few senarios in … Continue reading

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