The cake really is a lie…at least for Flickr users.
I hate to use a cliché, but you really can’t have your cake and eat it too. I logged in to Flickr yesterday rather innocently – I was updating some information on my Facebook profile and couldn’t...
View ArticleGetting Started: Google Authentication Using OAuth2 and ASP.NET C#
This is the start of an article series, provided that I don’t get distracted and forget to continue the series. I’ve been working on what is going to ultimately be a large-scale web project. The...
View ArticleLogging In: Google Authentication Using OAuth2 and ASP.NET C#
Previously, I covered an overview of how Google’s OAuth2 API works, as well as the initial URL and session data used to direct the user to Google’s login service. Google has documentation on the next...
View ArticleValidating Integrity: Google Authentication Using OAuth2 and ASP.NET C#
For those just tuning in, here’s a quick recap of what we’ve done so far: Part One explains why I’m not using DotNetOpenAuth and why you should reconsider blindly using it for your own web-based...
View ArticleThe Big Picture: Google Authentication Using OAuth2 and ASP.NET C#
For anyone who stayed with me through my first article series, I wanted to follow up today with a one-stop reference for everything we discussed. The three articles in this series are available here:...
View ArticleNew Commenting Policy!
I’m pretty sick of having to filter through spam here (especially since 90% of the comments I get are spam), so I’ve added a plugin to let you log in using any of a number of OpenID and OAuth2...
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The history of the Start Menu
It’s been a long time – almost twenty years, in fact – since the Start button was introduced by Microsoft. A key feature of the all-new Windows 95, the Start button provided one-click access to all...
View ArticleGoogle Glass
About a week ago I received Google Glass. I’m very excited about the potential applications, and I can’t wait to see how this dawning era of wearable tech will change our lives. In time we’ll see...
View ArticleMozilla’s latest debacle – and why it hurts open source projects
Quite a few years ago now, a large open-source project called Pidgin fell prey to one of the bigger pitfalls of OSS – developer-user relations. With commercial software development, a company has...
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A Month With ChromeOS (and the HP Chromebook 14)
It’s true. I love technology. There’s something about a new gadget or computer that gets me all giddy inside, so I was actually pretty excited when my significant other told me he bought me an HP...
View ArticleNo, Comcast. Just…no.
This may come as a huge shock to you, but I don’t like Comcast very much. I never had much of a problem with Comcast until now, surprisingly enough. I mean, they are consistently rated The Worst...
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CraftHacking: Tools for ProvoCraft’s Cricut Explore Air
I’m a pretty creative person. I always have been, and my maternal family history includes a lot of creative-minded people. One of my cousins is a bona fide professional artist, my mom is musically...
View ArticleA better solution for the ASUS ZenBook UX31’s touchpad drivers
I picked up a used ASUS Zenbook UX31A the other day. It’s a pretty sweet little machine – my model has a third-gen i5 and 16GB RAM, and it’s surprisingly speedy for its age. I did a clean Windows 10...
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In defense of the independent option: shattering the bipartisan myth
I probably got you going there for a minute, didn’t I? Don’t worry, this isn’t a political dissertation or anything. I’m talking about mobile operating systems. I mean, face it – we’re down to only two...
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Fixing Firefox Quantum: Auto-hiding toolbars
With Firefox axing native browser plugins, there are a lot of things I can’t do in the browser anymore. Hiding the toolbars is one of those annoying things that the great gods of Firefox’s dev team...
View ArticleEnabling Remote Desktop…Remotely
I’ve been working on rebuilding my home Active Directory environment, as well as splitting our personal data from multimedia to separate file servers. After getting everything up and running in Windows...
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Using GitHub Organizations for your OSS projects
I’ve been working on a side project at work, in the interest of expanding my knowledge of Microsoft’s developer platform and tools (which is the division I’m in now). Twitter yanked their official app...
View ArticleTLA3000: Authenticating to Microsoft services with vanilla JavaScript
One of my current projects is focused on improving the developer experience when it comes to getting up and running with the numerous I always knew Azure was A Thing, and I know it’s been very...
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