The Simple Part

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A couple of days ago, some colleagues and I were discussing the ins and outs of JavaScript, and one of the things that came up as we talked was how handy having functions as first class objects really is. Although I’d (ab)used this feature several times in the past, I’d never really thought much about it. It was just one of those things that’s, well, taken for granted in the language. Thinking it over a bit, a niggling thought came to me – that it would be really easy to implement aspect oriented programming in JavaScript. Read the full post

Yes, yes… .Net 2 is so last season. Even so, I’ve noticed that a lot of coders, especially those who haven’t played with it in depth, are still missing out on some of the excellent components that come bundled with it. Case in point are the authentication tools. Setting them up couldn’t be much easier – just write up the settings in your web.config file and plonk the authentication control on your page.

In an attempt to reduce the number of home-made authentication systems I keep seeing – some of them quite good, I must admit – below is a (very) short guide to configure a web application to authenticate users against a Directory Service such as Active Directory or LDAP. Read the full post