August 2008 Blog Posts
A couple of weeks back I tried to login to signon.com, my preferred OpenID provider. I use signon.com because it accepts Information Cards for authentication, so that's one less password to remember. However it didn't work; which was strange. I noticed that blogs I had used Information Cards on before told me they couldn't recognise my card either. It appears that someone listened to the problems with SSL and PPIDs I blogged about in February and this has broken the login. The change isn't a bad thing, it removes the dependence on the SSL chain so when you renew...
Monday sees Helen Emerson come out to Oxford to present on JSON, her very well received session first deliver at DDD. The object model in Javascript looks pretty foreign the first time you see it, particularly if you're from mainstream languages like C#, Java or VB.NET. In my talk I'm going to explore the Javascript object model, talk about the bread and butter things you need to know to create classes and objects and show you how to get the most out of some of the more exotic Javascript object features like prototyping. As...
Thursday sees the first meeting of the UK SQL user group in exciting Milton Keynes, home of, errr, concrete cows. It sees Tony Rogerson talking about common table expressions and Simon Sabin talking about new features in SQL 2008. You can find more details on the sqlserverfaq website. (If you're thinking of driving beware the M1 and its road works of doom) Technorati Tags: Usergroups,SQL Server 2008,SQL Server Usergroup
My OU degree is almost done; by December of next year I will hopefully have a BSc (Honours) in Computing and Systems Practice. In order to finish the degree I had to accumulate 360 points by choosing courses from an applicable list and 30 points from "free choice". I had already booked the courses for February next year which made up the last available options from the applicable list and started to look around for courses that would deliver those last 30 points; preferably starting next month so everything would be finished by 2009 (assuming I pass the exams...