Category Archives: Programming

Dice-O-Matic, The Ultimate Dice Rolling Machine

Generating random numbers in software has historically been a fine art. Many companies and individuals have tried to generate truly random numbers in software and failed, some of which have failed in such a grandiose fashion it has costed business … Continue reading

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Windows CardSpace, Solving The Identity Crisis

Last week saw another meeting of the Gold Coast .NET User Group and was presented on Windows CardSpace by Daniel Bartholomew. Windows CardSpace is the Microsoft implementation of the Identity Metasystem, a standards compliant platform agnostic system which hopes to … Continue reading

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ASP.NET MVC Framework Coming Soon

Scott Guthrie recently posted about the upcoming release of a Model View Controller based framework or addon to ASP.NET. I don’t normally post about ASP.NET, as on the whole I don’t find it quite frustrating. It isn’t a problem with … Continue reading

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Windows Live ID Web Authentication

Today, Microsoft released the Windows Live ID Web Authentication service to the world for public consumption. The Windows Live ID service is an evolution of the familiar Microsoft Passport system. Over the last few years, Microsoft have been extending the … Continue reading

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Tech Ed 2007, Day 3 Wrap Up

Yesterday I looked into the building of Background Motion using the Composite Web Block, the Enterprise Library and putting all of the different .NET 3.x technologies together in a demonstration product named Dinner Now. Today was focused around SQL Server … Continue reading

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