Building an SSO platform in PHP
For public applications OAuth and OpenID are useful solutions, both of which are presented with code samples in the presentation. For enterprise applications, SAML is a useful standard. The presentation covers building an Identity Provider for your company and shows how to integrate with that identity provider from your applications. Building an SSO platform in [...]
“Fast” food
There is this scene in Fawlty Towers in “The Hotel Inspectors” episode, which epitomizes what I see in terms of current english service in takeaway food places. In the scene, Manuel comes into the dinning room with a load of napkins. He then puts the pile down then, then proceeds to take one to a [...]
Spoon
spoon.net run an extensive service which enables you to run software on your pc, without having to install it, or purchase it. The advantage in testing of course is to be able to use many browser types. This isnt better than something like VMWare (in which you can load various OS/Browser combinations, and the selection [...]
Oh the sad pettiness of website owners …
Oh the sad pettiness of website owners who get a bad review – are you teenagers? Maybe you should just blub in your pillow about that awful man who slated your service in his grumpy-old-man blog. Using email attacks is a very common method, but any half-decent spam program will deal with this crap. Re-invent the [...]
Something I am bad at maintaining but so…
Something I am bad at maintaining, but so simple to do it has to be done. Nothing more annoying in a form if the tab order is illogical. While designers usually remember to do this, what is often forgotten the the tabbing order for an entire page selectable elements. Just go to any website and [...]
Money for old rope
money for old rope (British informal) also money for jam – if a job is money for old rope, it is an easy way of earning money Babysitting is money for old rope if the children go to sleep early. Most people think being a professional footballer is money for jam. idioms @ the freedictionary.com [...]
If you use wordpress, you dont have to u…
If you use wordpress, you dont have to use those URL shortener services when there is a good plugin to use your own domain to do so. The plugin also gives you option to still use other URL shortener services too.
