October 05, 2005
Everything Else
Apostrophe Protection Society
Um, yes, there is an Apostrophe Protection Society. A quick look at the forums reveals it's quite active too! To each their own I suppose. Myself, I often forget the rules on when to (not) use an apostrophe, so a website that lists them in a readable format is sometimes handy.
Posted by Adam Boddington at 11:46 AM | Comments (0)
Everything Else
Wireless Security
Well last night I finally turned on my ADSL modem's wireless access point and enabled my laptop's wireless network connection. Voila, instant wireless surfing. What took me so long? Didn't I realise it's 2005 and not the dark ages? Well up to now wireless is just one piece of technology I haven't been too eager to try. I read a long time ago about the serious problems with wireless security: fundamental flaws in protocols, high hackability, etc. Since then wireless has been put in the "too risky to try" box, and I've essentially stayed away from it like the plague.
Posted by Adam Boddington at 10:20 AM | Comments (0)
October 04, 2005
Everything Else
Home Connectivity
Here is a fantastic guide on setting up secure access to a home network (or any network for that matter) using SSH and Remote Desktop Connection (RDC) or VNC. I recently found the need to get into my home workstation from remote locations, and after looking at a PPTP VPN with RDC, a L2TP IPSec VPN with RDC, RDC by itself, and finally SSH with RDC, SSH with RDC seemed to be the most secure and easy to setup option.
Posted by Adam Boddington at 11:57 AM | Comments (0)
July 21, 2005
.NET
ObjectDataSource, Object Nirvana
I've just started an ASP.NET 2.0 project and I have to say I'm very impressed with the ObjectDataSource control so far. I point this nifty little control at one of my service objects (plain objects, not web services as yet), specify the methods for insert, select, update, delete, tell it the type of business object to expect (optional I think), hook a GridView control up to it, and voila, everything is working. No code! You don't even have to specify the parameters for the CUD methods -- it will figure them out itself. I just have the business object as my sole parameter, but apparently it can also do properties as parameters if you prefer that instead.
Posted by Adam Boddington at 01:04 PM | Comments (1)
June 27, 2005
.NET | SevenCamels.Common.Cojay
Reinventing the Wheel
Well that was fun. I learnt something about Ajax, specifically Ajax.NET, and I got a nice code browser to boot. Inspired by Scott Watermasysk's Cojax, Cojay isn't as pretty, but it will do for now. Cojay is just for demonstration purposes at the moment since I haven't bought a license for the ComponentArt.Web.UI.TreeView control just yet.
Posted by Adam Boddington at 08:26 PM | Comments (0)