Posts Tagged ‘Misc..’

Nov
2
Moved to WordPress - Second migration in two months…


Posted: 2nd November 2007
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I have migrated my blog from Mephisto to Wordpress. Before I get flamed for this, please let me apologise for any broken links. Any articles written in Mephisto (after August 2007) should be fine as I have set WordPress up to use the same style Permalinks, however any written in my .Net blog engine previous to that will now get my error page. I have tried to make this page as helpful as possible by providing a search facility.

My reasoning in moving to WordPress is not a reflection on Mephisto as it is an excellent blogging platform, however more to do with ease of deployment and hosting a PHP based system over a Ruby  on Railsbased system.

Once again I apologise if you are unable to find the article you are looking for, you should be able to locate it through the search facility or using the Categories or tags (on the left).

Regards,

Jon


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Apr
23
Tip: Creating stronger passwords.


Posted: 23rd April 2007
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In this day and age we often get asked for passwords to secure our content or personal information. Many people find if difficult to come up with memorable passwords and popular choices are things like the day of the week when they set it or literally the word “password”! So, I though I would share my way of coming up with a memorable password that appears to be a random string of characters

For this method you need to come up with a phrase of several words. This may be relevant to a particular the site or company or personal to you in some way, it could be some lyrics to a song or poem or a private thought etc. For an example I will use the following well known line from a nursery rhyme:

“Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pale of water”

We can easily turn this into a memorable password by using the first letters, so in the above case, we get:

jajwuthtfapow

Already, we have a 13 character password. However, we can make this stronger still, by using other common techniques, for example swapping words that sound like numbers for their corresponding number. i.e. to = 2 or for = 4. So with the above example, we get:

jajwuth2fapow

We can also add in symbols (where supported). For example we could swap and for + or &. So again with the example above we end up with:

j+jwuth2fapow

Remembering the phrase and the simple substitution rules for numbers and symbols provides us with a good strengthen password. Obviously we still should use different passwords for different sites and it is also wise to have a phrase that isn’t obviously related to a particular site.


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Apr
20
Excellent WYSIWYG HTML editor (all platforms)


Posted: 20th April 2007
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I have been trying out several HTML editors for ASP.Net and thought I would share this excellent find that works with several platforms, including ASP.Net, ASP, PHP, Java etc. Up until now I was using FreeTextBox, however this was giving me grief in Firefox so decided that I needed to find a new solution.

FCKeditor is an excellent HTML WYSIWYG editor for ASP.Net as an ASP.Net control is available to use with the Javascript source files to allow you to interact (Get / Set text) etc programmatic ally as you can do with FreeTextBox. In addition to this, FCKEditor allows you to upload images and other files making adding images a breeze and also includes a spell-checker.

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Jan
26
My first post.


Posted: 26th January 2007
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Hi,

Thanks for visiting my site and particularly my blog. I will shortly be posting articles related to Web Development & Design, along with reviews and opinons of technology and other things that interest me.

I will also try and provide tutorials for some of the emerging technologies I am working with, such as using the SubSonic Zero Access Data Access layer and my experiences in Flex 2.0 and Ruby on Rails.

Please feel free to comment on articles etc.

Watch this space


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