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Content with Style: LinkedIn and Zend_Oauth
New from the Content with Style blog today there’s a quick tutorial showing how to connect an application to LinkedIn with the Zend_Oauth component.
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Storing ASP.NET MVC Controllers & Views in separate assemblies
Dustin Davies explains how to ASP.NET keep MVC Controllers and views in separate assemblies.
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Zend Framework 1.10.4 Released
On behalf of the Zend Framework community, I’m pleased to announce the immediate availability of Zend Framework 1.10.4, our fourth maintenance release in the 1.10 series.
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c# for iPad?
Yet a another alternative to Objectve-C/XCode has arrived: MonoTouch, the non Microsoft dotNet implementation, supports the new useless computer-without-a-keyboard -slash- big iPhone, Apple iPad.
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PHP Security: Are you paying attention?
In a recent post to his blog Rafael Dohms reminds readers to not forget about the security of their applications because it can be “a huge mistake which can take a turn for the worse.
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Simple Cloud API for PHP
Zend just announced Simple Cloud API for PHP. This API aims to be an Abstraction Layer between PHP and a number of Cloud services (Azure, Amazon, Nirvanix, Rackspace). The current contributors to this project include Zend, Microsoft, IBM, Rackspace, Nirvanix, and GoGrid.
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Using .net assemblies inside SQL Server: Quick start guide
Are you are an experienced .net programmer and you are too lazy to learn TSQL stored procedures, triggers or functions? Yes? Then read on this quick start guide on using .net assemblies inside SQL Server using SQLCLR.
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Android ‘Donut’ SDK released: What’s new inside
By Tim Conneally, Betanews Google’s Android development team has made the latest Android SDK available, providing a complete view of all the new features that “Donut” (Android 1.6) will provide. While most of the features included in this incremental update are no secret, this is the first time they have been presented to the public…
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Building a Zend Modular CMS Tutorial
A series of blog posts have been created covering the development of an extendable, modular CMS system, currently up to part 7 with ACL, Database, Navigation, Config, Bootstrapping, and Translate, already built in. This is a good way to start using/understanding the Zend Framework.
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Preview of WebKit’s WebGL / Canvas 3D
“WebGL is basically an initiative to bring 3D graphics into web browsers natively, without having to download any plugins. This is achieved by adding a few things to HTML5, namely, defining a JavaScript binding to OpenGL ES 2.0 and letting you draw things into a 3D context of the canvas element.”
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Security Developer Starter Kit
The Microsoft SDL – Developer Starter Kit offers 14 modules of content, labs, and training to help you establish a standardized approach to rolling out security development policies and industry best practices into your organization. Download it here
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Check if a service is installed with ServiceController using LINQ
If you want to check if a specific NT Service is installed you will need to use the ServiceController class (from System.ServiceProcess). The first problem you will encounter is that the ServiceController has no static method, that would return a Boolean, specifying if the service is installed or not (e.g. ServiceController.IsInstalled(‘MyService’);) – so, to solve…
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RTM versions of Visual Studio 2008 and .net Framework 3.5
The final versions of Visual Studio 2008 and .net Framework 3.5 are available. MSDN subscribers can download VS2008 the full versions from the MSDN subscription site. Trial versions of VS2008 Team Suite and VS2008 Team Foundation Server are also available for download, VS2008 Professional will be available later.
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Native applications for the iPhone, SDK next February
As announced this week, Apple will release a new SDK to develop native applications for the iPhone. This is a somewhat unexpected turn, as Apple announced in the past that no native applications SDK would be released, leaving only room for applications developed using Dashboard-widgets-like methods (Web 2.0 applications, as stated in a previous press…
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Reading image metadata with .net 3.0
When you take a picture today your digital camera, something is stored in the JPG file other than the image itself: digital cameras store information such as camera model, date taken, metering mode, focal length shutter speed and in some cases a small thumbnail image; some news agencies, such as Reuters (see chopper.jpg image in…
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.net Framework Source Code available, for your eyes only
Microsoft just announced: The source code of the .net Framework (at least a big part of it) will be available shortly, as a standalone install or integrated in Visual Studio 2008. The code can only be viewed, not modified or distributed in any way, as it is published under the Microsoft Reference License.
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Microsoft releases Windows Live ID Auth SDK
Microsoft just released Windows Live ID Authentication SDK, allowing you to provide LiveID authentication to your website visitors. This will allow anyone with a LiveID account to instantly become a member of your website, even if you’re not using IIS+Windows.
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Installing SQL Server 2005 Express in Windows Vista x64
When you try to install MSSQL Server 2005 Express with Advanced Services in Windows Vista x64, with IIS7 already installed, you will get two warning messages: “IIS Feature Requirement” and “ASP.Net Version Registration Requirement”. This should not happen if you try to install SQL Server 2005 Express alone, as it doesnt need IIS or ASP.net.