Articles in the Technology Category
Cool & Future Tech, Featured, Headline, Web Development »
I’ve recently been doing a lot of digging into quote/unquote “newer” browser capabilities, some of which are very cool. I will share what I’ve discovered as I go.
As always I’m using a little “test project” as my sandbox, this is a real-world website that’ll use all these features and I’ll share that when it’s done. So far I’m using oAuth/Twitter integration, ASP.NET MVC/JQuery as a basic stack and am adding in HTML5 and CSS3 features. The resulting site will not be pretty but the point for me is always to …
Cool & Future Tech, Featured, Headline, html5, Web Development, Web Experiments »
What is the new Canvas tag in HTML5 all about? And why would I use it over SVG (scalable vector graphics)? I took a look and here’s what I found out…
Cool & Future Tech, Featured, Headline, Web Development »
The other day I converted the current WordPress theme of this site from XHTML Transitional 1.0 to HTML5. It was fairly easy so here’s what I did.
An XHTML 1.0 transitional website was a great place to start. I used the trusty w3c validator located at http://validator.w3.com.
First thing was to get the Doctype fixed up: I changed
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd”>
to
<!DOCTYPE html>
and bingo, we’re recognized as HTML5 instead of XHTML. Not compliant yet though. I removed the profile attribute from my head tag as so:
<head profile=”http://gmpg.org/xfn/11″> which wasn’t …
Digital Identity, Featured, Headline »
“CIO Dave Nikolejsin is putting his weight behind a new approach to verifying who someone is online and creating trusted services that promise to put the user back in control. Now he just has to convince everyone else in Canada”.
Nikolejsin is spreading the word on Claims based Identity to the Canadian public sector. I had a quote and Pamela Dingle, Mary Ruddy and Rob Blakley are also in there. August company for me.
http://www.thestandard.com/news/2009/09/16/case-claims-based-identity-management
http://www.itworldcanada.com/news/the-case-for-claims-based-identity-management/138760
http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=C46053C8-1A64-67EA-E40DEA02CB302FD4
Cool & Future Tech, Electronics, Featured, Headline »
We’ve reached a point now where smartphones are ubiquitous. I myself have a Blackberry Curve, the iPhone 3Gs is out, the Palm Pre is there and by summer’s end a number of Google Android powered phones are expected.
So far the trend has been to build more and more computing power into the devices so they can run plenty of applications. That’s not where things are headed though.
Switching gears for a second back to traditional Desktop computing: Pano Logic [LINK] make a tiny little box that completely virtualizes the computer. …
Cool & Future Tech, Featured, Headline, Web Development »
A number of folks have asked for detailed step-by-step instructions so here’s how I added a nice Carousel to the Arthemia theme running under WordPress. I use the free version of the Arthemia theme which doesn’t have a carousel out of the box. It’s easy to add one though and of course these instructions apply regardless of the theme you’re using so here goes.
I’ll assume you have WordPress installed, doesn’t matter which version.
Depending on the theme you use, the pages you’ll need to edit are located in a folder under …
Digital Identity, Featured, Headline, Web Development »
Twitter oAuth is working again, in fact it never went away. All that was suspended was the ability to grant new access tokens. Existing ones worked fine. At least from my rudimentary testing.
It seems like it came back sometime around 10 o’clock eastern. I immediately noticed things weren’t working on TweetARun.com but Twitter was at least providing an authorization token.
A bit of debugging revealed that Twitter no longer respects the oauth_callback parameter passed in by the relying party. It seems to be just directing the token back …
Digital Identity, Featured, Headline, Web Development »
Today I learned that Twitter and Yahoo have pulled their support for oAuth on the news of a security flaw. [LINK] Open Auth (oAuth) is an open source authentication scheme which I’d just implemented in a new project I’m working on (http://TweetARun.com) and wouldn’t you know it it’s dead in the water.
This just highlights the dependency we as Relying Parties have on Identity Providers.
http://TweetARun.com is a nice simple little site that purposefully avoids the need to register or store passwords by implementing Federated Single Sign On with Twitter …
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This is a test. In the beginning I just blogged (since 1998, before there WAS blogging). Then I signed up for Facebook, then Twine, then Twitter in that order.
I could care less but it seems to be the done thing to link to your blog posts from Twitter. A few minutes ago I found “Twitter Tools” for WordPress which claims to post a Tweet every time you blog. This’ll be the inaugural test of that plugin.
Twitter is setup to update Facebook also so we’ll see what happens there.
I’m …
Cool & Future Tech, Featured, Headline, Things I've Made »
First install Silverlight v2.0 [HERE] then check this out: http://www.francisshanahan.com/zoom/ then come back and read the rest.
Silverlight 3.5 was announced recently so I finally took 5mins to look at their “Deep Zoom” technology. Deep Zoom provides a way to view a HUGE image by converting it into what they call an “image pyramid”. Similar to what Google Maps does. It just so happened that I have a thing that makes huge images. It’s a side project I’ve been working on for about 18 months now. Anyway, I fired it up …
