Drupal 7 – Exposing date/time fields in custom tables to Views 3
Finally I am back blogging after half an year. Its been some good time since my last blog entry, but here I am and let's get down to business without much fanfare 🙂 So this week came along an interesting problem. The Centre for...
Digitally sign and verify PDF documents in C# using iTextSharp 5.3.x library
While working on a project, we recently came across a requirement to be able to digitally sign pdf documents in C# code using a public/private key pair and later be able to verify the signature. Basically we were working on an online e-Tendering portal for a...
Ext.Net Beginner FAQ
Its been a good time since I have blogged anything directly related to Ext.Net (I have written ExtJs blog posts in the interim, but nothing that relates primarily to Ext.Net). I finally got an opportunity today to break my silence on Ext.Net.A close acquaintance...
Drupal 7 – Only a single blog entry visible on a user’s blog page
I just fixed a configuration issue on a production site built with Drupal 7, what I would rather call a design bug with Blog module in D7.We had last month delivered a D7 based site to a client, with ability for various authorized users to create and maintain their...
ExtJs 3 – Normal looking buttons in toolbars
Seems like ages since I last did any serious blogging, feels good to be back. That too with an interesting solution to a common problem with ExtJs.I have often seen end-users complain about non-intuitiveness of buttons in ExtJs toolbars. They simply look like static...
Exchange does not like Null character (\0) in outgoing email bodies
Last time I was developing for Microsoft Exchange, I was seeing a wierd exception in our application trying to send an email using Exchange (the application uses EWS Managed API to interact with Exchange).The exception message went something like this when it was...
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...
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...

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...
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...
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