SAN certificates (or as Microsoft and others have taken to calling them, Unified Communications Certificates) are rapidly becoming a popular option for securing multiple domains. In fact, Exchange 2007, OCS 2007, and several other products now require UCC to function. However, this certificate type can proffer some advantages beyond that of a wildcard certificate as [...]
I am pleased to announce the initial public release of CDN Tools, my latest WordPress plugin! What is CDN Tools? Well, it’s a WordPress plugin that lets you load javascript files and your blog’s media (pictures, movies, audio, et cetera) to a content distribution network (CDN) to speed up page loading. You can load up [...]
Code signing is rapidly becoming an important part of application deployment on many platforms. On OS X it suppresses the keychain warnings when you update your application and on Windows it can bypass numerous UAC notifications as well as the initial application launch dialog. This can (sometimes drastically) improve the customer experience and reduce friction [...]
Since I released Fidgetr I’ve put up two small bugfix/feature enhancement releases. In no particular order: You can now use Flickr username or email to obtain your photostream. Previously only Flickr username was allowed. Substantial improvements to look and feel of the widget control in wp-admin. This should help reduce confusion. Several optimizations to reduce [...]
If you have ever wanted to encrypt a blob of data for transmission or archival, OpenSSL provides a simple way to accomplish this task without resorting to platform specific tools. To encrypt1: openssl enc -e -aes-256-cbc -in filename -out filename.enc To decrypt: openssl enc -d -aes-256-cbc -in filename.enc -out filename.dec The example above uses AES256 [...]
For the past few weeks I have been working on a small coding project and today I am proud to announce its first public release! Fidgetr is a WordPress widget that displays the latest photos from your Flickr photostream in an attractive manner. It features support for its own themes along with very simple setup and [...]