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If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough

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More relevant ads please.

I just read that Mozilla are going to block third party cookies in the next version of Firefox (optional, but blocking is on per default). That’s great. Let’s get rid of the web site/usage tracking that all advertising services has.

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Azure shut me down again

Yet again I got shut down by Azure. This time the CPU quote was exceeded just a couple of hours into the new quota period. I’ve switched to “Reserved” mode which doesn’t have the same limits (which is not said … Continue reading

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ADO.NET Fakes version 2.0

I’ve just updated the API for my ADO.NET Fakes library. The library is a complete ADO.NET driver which is designed to aid you in unit testing.

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Downdown again

Sorry for being down again. My website mysteriously at all of my CPU quota at Azure = being suspended without notification. More about that later (or check my PDF blog post in my twitter account)

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Moved to Azure

I’ve moved this blog to Azure. Everything went really smooth. I must say that I’m impressed with the work that Microsoft has done. Well. Almost everything. I got two complaints.

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Up and running again

I had a server crash and no access to the server room. But everything should be up and running again.

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Request for comments: Merging libraries

I currently have a number of libraries which I develop (at github). Most of them are small (less than 50kb) and I’m thinking about merging them into one library instead. What I mean is that I will add them into … Continue reading

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Emailing passwords is no proof of storing passwords as plain text

There is a site named plaintextoffenders.com which lists sites which they claim store plain text passwords, i.e. not hashed or encrypted. As proof they let users email screenshots to them. Many of the screenshots looks like this: Welcome XXX, bla … Continue reading

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Solved: Getting 401 Unauthorized while calling an ASMX service using windows authentication

Today I’ve spent almost the whole day to figure out why an application (COM+) couldn’t authenticate against a ASMX web service. Using my favorite networking tools Wireshark and HTTP Fiddler I saw that the credentials didn’t get included in the … Continue reading

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