Archive for April, 2008
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
SourceForge.net shipped support for OpenID this morning followed by an official announcement on their community forums. In just a few seconds I had my OpenID tied to my existing SF account. Their implementation seems very solid and straight forward.
This certainly makes them one of the largest, most ...
Posted in Identity, OpenID | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Normally I would abstain from pointing out security issues on other's websites, but since this bit of code provides absolutely no security at all I can do so with a clear conscience. The bit of code below is from my former banks personal account login. I quickly changed ...
Posted in Programming, Security, Software | 1 Comment »
Monday, April 14th, 2008
Luke Crouch, one of SourceForge's developers left a subtle message today in their community forums hinting at what OpenID features they've been working on recently.
It looks like they will be shipping a full on RP implementation along with delegation support for their developer profile pages.
"dedicated Identity Providers can focus on ...
Posted in Identity, OpenID | No Comments »
Friday, April 11th, 2008
To allow for custom error pages (404,500) in Django/Google App Engine all you need is this bit of middle-ware that stubs out the request class for you so that it doesn't blow up.
Add your custom templates to your template directory and name them 404.html, 500.html etc.
Paste the following into middleware/errorpages.py
class ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
I'm used to running mange.py in my Django apps and I kept forgetting the name of the Google App Engine equivalents. My script only knows how to do two things at the moment, "runserver" and "publish" but now I can manage everything the way I'm accustomed to.
Update: Aprill ...
Posted in Django, Google App Engine, Programming, Python, Software | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
I'm really digging the concept that is Google App Engine, but I think they a little bit of work to do before I would be willing to put any effort into porting to their platform. Their marketing points for this include the fact that it allows you to build, ...
Posted in Django, Google App Engine, Programming, Python | No Comments »
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Shortly after Google released Google Web Engine last night, Ryan Barrett of Google released an application for the platform that essentially makes Google an OpenID Provider. Check it out here:
http://openid-provider.appspot.com/
(Thanks Sam for the scoop)
Update: Digg It!
Posted in Identity, OpenID | No Comments »
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
I just learned about Google App Engine a couple of hours ago and I have to say I'm pretty excited about what their doing. I really like the fact that they didn't go out and try to invent their own IDE and scripting language. I'm still really reluctant ...
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