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Tuesday, October 31, 2006 2:20 PM

Streamlining my Information Card login process

I spent a little more time this afternoon polishing the info card login process on Casa dé Hambone . Let me know what you think. I really liked how sxcore and sandbox.netfx3.com are handling their info card login. Sxcore specifically has a nice way of
Posted by kevinha | 1 Comments
Wednesday, October 25, 2006 8:04 PM

Do you want authenticated comments in DasBlog?

DasBlog 1.9.6264.0 . Authenticated comments. Windows CardSpace . Working. Try it out right now by signing in with your information card and then leaving a comment on this post. Inclusion of your web page claim is optional; include during the initial card
Posted by kevinha | 0 Comments
Tuesday, October 24, 2006 9:07 AM

Say goodbye to laptops? I don't think so.

Has this guy ever sat inside a high rise office building or even the basement of a Midwestern home and struggled to get a reliable cellular signal? In his article about how once again the browser will make Windows irrelevant , he sings the joys of living
Posted by kevinha | 1 Comments
Monday, October 23, 2006 11:54 PM

Casa dé Hambone is Windows CardSpace-enabled!

Taking inspiration from Kim Cameron and how he CardSpace-enabled WordPress , I did the same with DasBlog 1.9.6264.0. casadehambone.com now supports logging into the administrative account using Windows CardSpace allowing me to throw the use of passwords
Posted by kevinha | 1 Comments
Friday, October 20, 2006 4:06 PM

How to grant ASP.NET access to certificate private keys on Windows Vista

One of the more painful processes on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 is granting read permission to the private keys of a certificate. It typically requires a few trips to your favorite search engine, msdn.microsoft.com and running winhttpcertcfg.exe.
Posted by kevinha | 0 Comments
Friday, October 20, 2006 3:01 PM

Firefox 2 outperforms IE7 because Firefox doesn't do "the right thing"

As I mentioned here , Scoble points out that IE7 renders TechMeme slower than Firefox 2 . A true statement. Another true statement is that Firefox isn't respecting the <META HTTP-EQUIV="Expires" CONTENT="now"> tag. Furthermore, Firefox doesn't respect
Posted by kevinha | 1 Comments
Friday, October 20, 2006 1:38 PM

IE7 vs. Firefox 2 - is IE7 not loading images from cache?

Scoble knocks IE7's performance compared to Firefox 2 and I had to see it to believe it. Given I've been living in IE7 for months - and more recently with IE7 on Windows Vista - I've never given performance a thought, which tells me either that performance
Posted by kevinha | 1 Comments
Friday, October 20, 2006 12:34 PM

How I created my own Windows CardSpace image

I've been getting my feet wet with Windows CardSpace and my self-issued card. In watching Kim Cameron's demonstration of how he integrated CardSpace with Wordpress , I saw his nifty looking card with his portrait on it. Right then and there I decided
Posted by kevinha | 1 Comments
Monday, October 16, 2006 2:08 PM

Windows Vista RC2 upgrade broke domain membership

Turns out the 32-bit Windows Vista RC2 upgrade from RC1 broke my notebook computer's domain membership in an odd way. I could still log into the machine with my domain credentials, seamlessly access Exchange over HTTP via single sign-on, etc., but I could
Posted by kevinha | 0 Comments
Saturday, October 14, 2006 2:45 PM

Who uses WSRP to avoid vendor lock in?

I'm really curious to know how many people actually leverage WSRP to run portlets in a variety of different portals. I'm not talking about writing the portlet here and running it over there. I'm specifically interested if people are actively writing portlets
Posted by kevinha | 0 Comments
Thursday, October 05, 2006 3:37 PM

Visual Studio 2005 Object Test Bench Screencast

The Object Test Bench is, in my opinion, one of the lesser known features of Visual Studio 2005. The Object Test Bench provides a way for you to create instances of your classes within the Visual Studio 2005 IDE and then invoke methods on those objects,
Posted by kevinha | 3 Comments
 
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