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Jan 12
I recently had to undertake some work to enable users to seamlessly authenticate to Google Apps using an identity stored in a custom Secure Token Service such as the excellent IdentityServer open source STS by Dominick Baier. The work involved is mostly configuration in Google Apps and ADFS but there are quite a number of …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.huggill.com/2012/01/12/setting-up-google-apps-single-sign-on-sso-with-adfs-2-0-and-a-custom-sts-such-as-identityserver/
Aug 26
I’ve recently made a foray into the world of Zend Framework. If you’ve not come across it, it is one of several popular PHP frameworks that implements the Model View Controller software architecture. By day I’m mostly devoted to hacking ASP.NET MVC, but having had some experience with PHP I decided to get my teeth …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.huggill.com/2011/08/26/clearing-up-the-confusion-over-session-timeouts-in-php-and-zend-framework/
Jul 27
A few days ago I took the leap and upgraded my Macbook Air to OS X Lion. After a seamless (and typically Apple) upgrade process, I was enjoying the benefits of an even more refined operating system. However, one of the first things I did was test out my mobile broadband – and there the …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.huggill.com/2011/07/27/using-o2-zte-mf100-mobile-broadband-on-mac-os-x-lion/
Jun 01
The Background One of the projects that I’ve been working on recently requires a lot of interaction between different systems, and in order to roll-out changes and carry out integration testing I needed a replica of our production environment. However the challenge was that it required 7 machines to replicate production. In the past I’ve …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.huggill.com/2011/06/01/building-a-budget-vmware-esxi-server-2/
Apr 29
Background: In Part 1 of this series I wrote about a recent project that I worked on to synchronise contact data between a number of web applications, and how I had to work around the (current) shortcomings of their APIs. As Scott Hanselman says, “talk is cheap – show me the code”. So here we …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.huggill.com/2011/04/29/synchronising-highrise-basecamp-and-google-shared-contactspart-2/
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