Thinking of using an ObjectDataSource and DetailsView to populate/save your business object? If the object has a DateTime property – lets hope you live in the United States! Had an strange problem today with a birthday set to October 9, 1940. The edit screen would populate a TextBox with “9/10/1940”, correct for my culture en-AU. […]
I’ve heard about OpenID on a podcast I listen to. Sounds interesting – an open source solution to have a ‘single sign on’ for many websites. Interested to see how this works – both as a user, and as a website author. Here’s a run through of an example authentication: User accesses an OpenID enabled […]
In the middle of a Facebook application idea of mine. Using the FacebookToolkit to get something together. It’s pretty interesting how Facebook integrates with 3rd party applications. Short version: User accesses “http://apps.facebook.com/<appplication_name>”, Facebooks sends your page a POST (you host it wherever you want); Facebook displays the output of your page. Long story: Basic Application […]
Ever wanted to create an SSL certificate for your dev box? There’s no need for a well known CA like Verisign or Comodo on your dev box. Here are some guides to creating your own CA/signed certificates: Setting up SSL with a SelfSSL certificate on Windows Server 2003 – create a self signed certificate with […]