Tin Isles

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Ever wanted to create an SSL certificate for your dev box? There's no need for a well known CA like Verisign or Comodo on your dev box. Here are some guides to creating your own CA/signed certificates:

• Setting up SSL with a SelfSSL certificate on Windows Server 2003 - create a self signed certificate with a utility from the IIS Resource Kit.
• Creating a Self-Signed Certificate using OpenSSL for use with Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 5 - use the open source OpenSSL to create your own CA, and sign requests yourself. Has the advantage that users can trust one CA, and never receive SSL warnings from your dev sites.

Labels: iis, security

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• Request Validation - 2.0 picks up 'malicious' HTML even when it's escaped.
• ASP.NET 2.0 MasterPages and FindControl() - recursively searching for controls inside a masterpage.
• TextBox ReadOnly in ASP.NET v2.0 - populating a readonly textbox via script, the contents of the textbox don't get populated on the PostBack page.
• The Attributes property of a ListItem control only works within an HtmlSelect control - is no longer the case in 2.0 (even though "This behavior is by design" in 1.1).

Labels: asp.net

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• UltraVNC SC - a VNC 'server' you can package up and send to friend. When launched UltraVNC SC makes the outbound connection back to your waiting VNC client. No need to set-up any firewall rules on the 'controlled' PC.
• Thoof - always has a few articles I find interesting. Uses your stats (articles clicked, your browser make/version, geographic location) to find articles tailored for you.
• Imperial History of the Middle East - found this on Thoof.
• Synergy - control several PCs from one mouse/keyboard, moving the mouse off one screen seamlessly flows onto the next screen.
• 2005 BT Technology Timeline [warning PDF link]
• Slow Wave - people send in their dreams for some pretty weird cartoons

Labels: links