Why OAuth can’t be ignored
Do you realize that your email password is probably your most sensitive piece of information? You should never, ever give it away. Not to another "trustworthy" web site, and not…
What’s coming for DotNetOpenId and DotNetOAuth
Did you even know DotNetOAuth existed? It’s alpha quality right now but that will change soon. OAuth and OpenID serve two orthogonal needs, and although Google is trying to combine…
NoTrailingWhitespace StyleCop rule, and others
After a period of initial bad taste, I’ve come to like StyleCop. I dislike a few of their rules, and I turn those off. But overall I like how it…
A rebuttal to the concerns surrounding OpenID
OpenID is still largely unknown to most Internet users. Those who already know something about it are mostly very tech savvy and have a strong opinion either for or against…
My OpenID Provider wishlist
I have yet to find an OpenID Provider that offers all that OpenID has to offer. Though some come awfully close, myopenid.com most notably. Multiple personas Attribute Exchange support (using…
DotNetOpenId adds an OpenID AJAX login control
DotNetOpenId may be feature complete per the OpenID spec, but it’s far from stagnant. The next version will be packed with new enhanced security features that can be optionally turned…
Make your ASP.NET custom controls work with the validation controls
Do you have a custom ASP.NET control that you want to allow your users to attach the standard ASP.NET validation controls to? A quick web search turns up a lot…
How to use a library without taking a hard dependency on it
First let me lay out the problem: you’re writing a library that so far is self-contained as a single DLL. You want to add some functionality to your library that…
How to cleanly log messages without wasting cycles when not logging
Whether you use System.Diagnostics.Trace, log4net, or any other logger, it’s often the case that you want to allow the logging to be turned on or off at runtime. To avoid…
How I have taken control of my own identity, part 2
In my last post, I discussed how I made http://blog.nerdbank.net my one OpenID URL that allows me to link my several accounts with various OpenID Providers into a single URL…