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Arun's Memento: November 2008
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Wednesday, November 26, 2008. Red Dog and more! Check this nice article about the history and the man behind Red Dog (Windows Azure). Ray Ozzie Wants to Push Microsoft. Back Into Startup Mode. Posted by Arun Ramadasan. Links to this post. Monday, November 24, 2008. The "Geneva" Identity Framework. 8220;Geneva” Framework also provides developers with a consistent programming experience whether they choose to build their applications in ASP.NET or in WCF environments. Translate between claims and NT tokens.
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Arun's Memento: Isn't that Impossible?
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Thursday, July 30, 2009. The contents of this article are original works of Dharmesh M. Mehta taken verbatim from his blog posting at http:/ smartsecurity.blogspot.com/2009/06/isnt-that-impossible.html. I liked the way Dharmesh captured the common arguments people make for not implementing security in a surrealistic way and hence posting it here too. Permissions from original author:. Not every organization and their people know about software security issues nor do they respect the same. 8226; “Th...
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Arun's Memento: September 2010
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Monday, September 27, 2010. I am a big fan of Steven McConnell's body of work. I came across an interesting piece which deserves sharing promptly for practioners of Software Engineering. Some of the outlined Descriptions of Mistakes make for an interesting read and it evokes a feeling of Deja Vu for those who have been through it. Abandonment of planning under pressure. Adding people to a late project. Assuming global development has a negligible impact on total effort. Multi-site development increases c...
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Arun's Memento: Silverlight
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009. Every new technology brings its own mechanism to mitigate security threats. This post discusses on how silverlight deals with cross site scripting. What is Cross Site Scripting? Cross-site scripting (XSS) is a type of computer security vulnerability typically found in web applications which allow code injection by malicious web users into the web pages viewed by other users. Examples of such code include HTML code and client-side scripts. An exploited cross-site scriptin...Works...
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Arun's Memento: Debug = true
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Tuesday, July 6, 2010. Its been ages since I wrote something useful. It was time to break the shackles and dust off my blog. So after a long hiatus I start over again. This one pertains to common problems observed in ASP.Net Application bottlenecks and issues. The excerpts for this post has been taken from MSDN content and other insightful blog posts. 1 Issue - Configuration. Seems the #1 issue in support for problems with ASP.NET 2.x and 3.x is configuration. Here's why debug="true" is bad:. Sometimes w...
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Arun's Memento: December 2008
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Tuesday, December 9, 2008. Asynchronous Programming and Power Threading. Many of us who've had experience with asynchronous development know how difficult such code can be to write. Asynchronous code is typically non-linear, and jumps from one portion of a program to another. It is difficult to debug, and is difficult to tame if errors occur. To understand the difficulties inherent in asynchronous development it helps to first consider a simple example. Setting up a try.catch block is difficult at be...
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Arun's Memento: Google Wave
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Sunday, June 7, 2009. What is Google Wave? It is a new communication service that Google unveiled at Google IO this week. It is a product, platform and protocol for communication and collaboration designed for today’s world. Is that too much of technical jargon…let’s make it simple…and take it in chewable bite size…. The ripples of this Google wave have potential of impacting the technology world for decades to come. Http:/ wave.google.com. Http:/ code.google.com/apis/wave. Posted by Arun Ramadasan.
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Arun's Memento: Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS)
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Thursday, July 9, 2009. Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS). Federated Identity is a standards based technology. IBM, SUN, and Versign all have stakes in this technology. ADFS is simply Microsoft's solution for Federation management. ADFS is part of the R2 release of Server 2003. You cannot purchase or download ADFS separately. So exactly what is ADFS? ADFS fills a much needed gap in the following scenarios:. Remember how we put AD in the DMZ so we can setup user accounts for our partner? ADFS is...
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Arun's Memento: PDB files.
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Friday, July 24, 2009. Most developers realize that PDB files are something that help us debug, but that's about it. Don't feel bad if you don't know what's going on with PDB files because while there is documentation out there, it's scattered around and much of it is for compiler and debugger writers. While it's extremely cool and interesting to write compilers and debuggers, that's probably not a normal developer's job. The development manager for all things diagnostics on Visual Studio, said at the 20...
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Arun's Memento: July 2010
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Tuesday, July 6, 2010. Its been ages since I wrote something useful. It was time to break the shackles and dust off my blog. So after a long hiatus I start over again. This one pertains to common problems observed in ASP.Net Application bottlenecks and issues. The excerpts for this post has been taken from MSDN content and other insightful blog posts. 1 Issue - Configuration. Seems the #1 issue in support for problems with ASP.NET 2.x and 3.x is configuration. Here's why debug="true" is bad:. Sometimes w...