ChangeLog – Jon Chase's blog

Slightly off topic, but…
With the recent release of Beowulf in 3D (the good kind, not the kind that makes you sick after watching), one can only be left to wonder: when will 3D make its way to videogames? People are talking up 3D as Hollywood’s Next Big Thing – if you’ve never seen a [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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…

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 [...]

Does anyone have any ideas on how to accomplish an easy single sign on (SSO) setup?
A little background: SendAlong is built using a sort of spoke and hub architecture – there’s one main server (the hub) and several secondary servers (the spokes). It’s worth mentioning that the secondary servers are far away from [...]

I’ve recently stumbled upon www.websitegrader.com – enter your site’s address and the address of a few other competing sites and get a report about how effective your site is at marketing its message.

It takes into consideration metrics like Google Page Rank, number of inbound links, etc (it also shows you those metrics). In the [...]