Archive | November, 2007

29 November 2007 ~ 0 Comments

Trying to Decide on a Payment Processor for Credit Cards on Web Site?

If you’re going to try to process credit card payments from your web site, you’ve got a lot of learning to do. On the one hand, there are the third party providers like PayPal, and there are the merchant account providers like Authorize.net. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, have [...]

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25 November 2007 ~ 0 Comments

Good Discussion on High Bandwidth Hosting Alternatives

If you’re in the market for a high bandwidth hosting plan (in the terabytes), have a read of this thread:
http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?biz.5.567507
It discusses different hosting strategies for high bandwidth serving, mentioning Amazon’s S3, SoftLayer, and a bunch of other solutions.
SendAlong uses S3 heavily, and I’ve been very happy with it so far. And the price is [...]

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14 November 2007 ~ 0 Comments

Gmail is FAST in Safari (on Windows)

I say on Windows because I don’t know if it’s fast on the Mac version. Anywho, I’m one of those people that has Gmail open all day long and do a lot of email, and I’ve noticed that Firefox, unlike its old fast self, has been rather slow as of late. I’ve been [...]

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06 November 2007 ~ 0 Comments

How to Write for Wired Magazine

After reading a few issues of Wired, I’ve developed a basic formula that is all but certain to get your articles published in this high quality periodical:

Use the word “meatspace” at least once in your article.
Include a quote of someone dropping the F-bomb. Put it near the end of the article to give the [...]

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04 November 2007 ~ 0 Comments

Acegi with CAS SSO Now Running. What’s Next?

I have to admit, for single sign on in Java, CAS and Acegi go together about as well as peanut butter and jelly. Milk and cookies. Cake and ice cream…I should go grab some breakfast.

If there’s any interest, I may write up the steps I took in integrating CAS with Acegi.
Up next is making the [...]

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03 November 2007 ~ 0 Comments

CAS SSO Up and Running…Now onto Acegi

I’ve got the basic CAS demo up and running, successfully doing single sign on between different webapps running on different servers. That link is actually an excellent guide to get you up and running quickly with CAS. Give it a shot if you’re just getting started.
Now on to Acegi integration…

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03 November 2007 ~ 1 Comment

Single Sign On (SSO) and Other Things

I’ve decided to go ahead and try to get JA-SIG’s CAS configured alongside Acegi (Spring Security). I gave the Acegi docs and the CAS demo docs a couple of reads and it looks like it shouldn’t be too hard to get things set up properly. I think the thing that befuddles me most [...]

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