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Book Review: Getting Started with Twitter Flight

I recently read Getting Started with Twitter Flight by Tom Hamshere. The book was published in October 2013. Another book was also published around the same time. To my knowledge, these are still the only two books about the Twitter Flight framework. The book…

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Why We Switched from AngularJS to FlightJS

The landscape for web development is rapidly changing. It seems like not too long ago, I was making a decision with my team to avoid using JavaScript in our projects due to browser inconsistencies; that was actually 15 years ago. Since then, we’…

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SecuritySwitch 4 Goes Beta

SecuritySwitch version 4 has been in beta for a little while now. I’ve received some good feedback with no showstoppers at this point. I am also using the latest beta in one of my production environments with great success. Check out SecuritySwitch…

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SecuritySwitch Grows Up on Google Code

Edit: Due to a trademark infringement, this open source project will now be named SecuritySwitch. What a huge PITA it was to migrate to a new project on Google Code! Since you cannot rename a project, I had to create a new one and…

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WebPageSecurity becomes SecuritySwitch

Edit: Due to a trademark infringement, this open source project will now be named SecuritySwitch. Feel free to read the comment posted by the holder of the trademark on the name I originally planned to use. It was a polite enough message. I think…

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ASP.NET "Remember Me" Option with Forms Authentication Not Working?

ASP.NET Login Control So, you’ve set the timeout value for forms authentication to a fairly large value, yet checking the “remember me” check box on the Login control still does not persist your users’ authentication, even after a…

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SVN, the Way of the Tortoise

Although, Subversion (SVN) is not new, it is still one of the most widely used version control systems (VCS) available. SVN is a tool that allows users to track the changes of files. Yes, it’s that simple. Interfacing Your Demons Like many…

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Save the Developers Lost to Microsoft?

Save the Developers was a site dedicated to educating Web surfers about the tremendous failings of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browsers. The site sported a free “badge” for Web developers and webmasters to include on websites to spread the word. “…

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Simpler Robust ASP.NET Providers

I don’t like writing about something that I’m “currently working on” too often. The problem with that is sometimes other things (e.g. life) get in the way of my proposed timelines. All that aside, there are times…

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Web Page Security - New Version

Some of you know me as a friend and code poet. Some know me as the crazy guy trying to get donations for his dad to get him a Wii. Some just know me as “that guy who wrote the web page security…

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Custom Membership and Role Providers

I work for a community college as their webmaster/web programmer and things tend to be very disparate with regards to systems. The student information system speaks its own language and interfaces with its own data. The Active Directory trees are updated manually each…

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LINQ with SQL Server CE 3.5

LINQ is an extremely useful new language feature for the .NET Framework 3.5. It allows querying all sorts of data structures via the actual programming language (thus the Language INtegrated in LINQ). In addition, the specific variant, LINQ to SQL, includes a full…