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May 2012
WIF - Security Token Service for Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
We had recently integrated Claims Authentication support in one of our enterprise applications. And it soon-after went into evaluation for a prospective clients. We had advised them to use ADFS (Active Directory Federation Services) to create the authentication bridge between our application and the underlying authentication repository.
DotNetNuke - Rendering PayPal button using a simple aspx page and an iframe
A beginner ASP.NET developer also knows pretty well that each ASP.NET page needs to have a <form runat="server"> tag on the page and that all server controls need to be present inside this tag (although this is not entirely true; you can place server controls outside <form runat="server"> but then they cannot participate in regular ASP.NET functionality like PostBacks, Viewstate etc).
Drupal 7 - Displaying available Tokens in UI and replacing Tokens in code
In the latest 7.x version of my Take Control module for Drupal released a couple of weeks before, I added the ability to specify per role and per user base path for File Browser access. Additionally Tokens were allowed to be present in base path for file browser for additional flexibility.
Windows ODBC - DB: database - getDriverType - Data Source Does not Exist in ODBC.INI file
Sometime ago I was installing Autonomy's WorkSite Server on my new Win 7 64-bit machine for development purposes. Folks who have used WorkSite would know WorkSite connects to its database via ODBC. I had earlier installed WorkSite on a Win 2003 32-bit machine and I thought it was pretty easy to set WorkSite up.
Visual Studio builds loaded projects only when building solution from command line
One of my Visual Studio 2010 solutions has a comparatively larger number of projects (more than 30). And we use PowerShell scripts extensively to automate many build and packaging tasks for this solution.
For example, the main PowerShell build script rebuilds all the projects in the solution, minifies js/css resources from various projects, packages various projects as stand-alone installable modules and packages the main project as an installer/updater.
Drupal - Customizing View filters programatically
So it happened last week that I created a View in Drupal 7 and I wanted to customize conditions (aka Filters) in a way that I thought cannot be done with the Views interface (I later discovered I was wrong and D7 Views UI could have been used to express the filters in the way I needed).
ExtJs - Slider component with ability to add items dynamically
Sometime earlier, I wrote a blog post demonstrating a Ticker component for ExtJs to which items can be added dynamically (here). The client for whom I originally wrote that Ticker component changed the specification recently, now requesting the ability for the ticker items to stay on screen for a configurable duration of time.
Drupal - Defining plugins for Views Wizards
It has been the first time since I started blogging somewhere in 2009 that a full calendar month (of April 2012) passed without me writing any blog in that month. It feels good to be back to the blogging world.
