1. In Visual Studio Choose Options from the Tools menu. 2. Expand Source Control in the treeview. 3. Click Visual Studio Team Foundation Server in the treeview. 4. Click the Configure User Tools button. 5. Click the Add button. 6. Enter “.*” [...]]]> http://www.scootersoftware.com/support.php?c=kb_vcs.php

1. In Visual Studio Choose Options from the Tools menu.
2. Expand Source Control in the treeview.
3. Click Visual Studio Team Foundation Server in the treeview.
4. Click the Configure User Tools button.
5. Click the Add button.
6. Enter “.*” in the Extension edit.
7. Choose Compare in the Operation combobox.
8. Enter the path to BComp.exe in the Command edit.
9. In the Arguments edit, use:
%1 %2 /title1=%6 /title2=%7

ASP.NET for PHP Developers

ASP.NET for PHP Developers Part 2

ASP.NET from Scratch Lesson 1

ASP.NET from Scratch Lesson 2

ASP.NET from Scratch Lesson 3

First, get Pure [...]]]> Here is an extension / plugin for mediawiki to authenticate against a Radius server. I couldn’t find one anywhere else, which is surprising. I can’t believe I am the first person to want to do this. Anyway, this is just bare bones, but it works for an internal mediawiki setup.

First, get Pure PHP radius class 1.2.2 from http://developer.sysco.ch/php. This does the actual radius authentication. Put radius.class.php in wiki/extensions/ (assuming wiki is your mediawiki install). There is probably a better place to put it, but I was setting this up for internal use and wanted to get it working quickly.

Next, create wiki/extensions/RadiusAuthPlugin.php. Make sure you fill in RADIUS_SERVER, SHARED_SECRET, and NAS_IP_ADDRESS with your actual information

<?php
require_once('AuthPlugin.php');
require_once('radius.class.php');
 
error_reporting(E_ALL);
 
class RadiusAuthPlugin extends AuthPlugin
{
    function userExists($username)
    {
        return TRUE;
    }
 
 
 
    function authenticate($username, $password)
    {
        $username = strtolower($username);
 
        $radius = new Radius('RADIUS_SERVER', 'SHARED_SECRET');
        $radius->SetNasIpAddress('NAS_IP_ADDRESS'); // Needed for some devices (not always auto-detected)
        if ($radius->AccessRequest($username, $password))
        {
            return TRUE;
        }
 
        return FALSE;
    }
 
 
 
    function modifyUITemplate(&$template)
    {
        $template->set('usedomain', FALSE);
        $template->set('useemail', FALSE);
        $template->set('create', FALSE);
    }
 
 
 
    function autoCreate()
    {
        return TRUE;
    }
 
 
 
    function validDomain($domain)
    {
        return TRUE;
    }
 
 
 
    function updateUser(&$user)
    {
        return TRUE;
    }
 
 
 
    function allowPasswordChange()
    {
        return FALSE;
    }
 
 
 
    function setPassword($password)
    {
        return FALSE;
    }
 
 
 
    function updateExternalDB($user)
    {
        return FALSE;
    }
 
 
    function canCreateAccounts()
    {
        return FALSE;
    }
 
 
    function adduser($user, $password)
    {
        return FALSE;
    }
 
 
 
    function strict()
    {
        return TRUE;
    }
 
 
 
    function initUser(&$user) { }
}
 
 
$wgExtensionCredits['other'][] = array(
    'name' => 'RadiusAuthPlugin',
    'version' => '1.0.0',
    'author' => 'James Young',
    'description' => 'Automatic login with a RADIUS server'
);

Lastly, put this in your LocalSetup.php:

require_once("./extensions/RadiusAuthPlugin.php");
$wgAuth = new RadiusAuthPlugin();
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false;

Adjust paths as necessary. Put this in your bash profile:

Now, this gives you two [...]]]> Had the desire to open files from the command line (a cygwin terminal, mintty, to be specific) into my existing session of Visual Studio 2008. Here is what you can do.

Adjust paths as necessary. Put this in your bash profile:

export PATH=$PATH:/cygdrive/c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/Microsoft\ Visual\ Studio\ 9.0/Common7/IDE/
alias devedit="devenv \$1 /edit"

Now, this gives you two tools. Well, one, but two will be available on the command line.

The main tool you now have is devenv, which allows you to do all sorts of things. type devenv /? to see all the things you can do with it.

We are interested in devenv filename /edit. I would prefer to just type the filename, and not need to type /edit everytime. The alias devedit takes care of this for us. So, you can do devenv whatever to have access to all the features that tool gives you, and you can do devedit filename to quickly open up the file in your existing Visual Studio session. If there is no session running, it will start one up.

Anyway, having used [...]]]> So I got a new Dell through work with Vista installed. Naturally one of the first things I did was install cygwin so I can use mintty. This gives me a decent terminal on widnows. If you don’t know what those are, I encourage you to give them a shot.

Anyway, having used a mac forever, I found myself missing the ‘open’ command that you can do from Terminal (on the mac) to pop open a window from the directory you are in.

With a quick search, I found that someone else already figured this out, so I am going to post my version of it here:

In your .bash_profile, add this:

alias open="cygstart \$1"

Then in mintty (or any cygwin terminal) you can cd to where ever you want, then just do ‘open [path]‘ and it will pop open a windows window for [path].

Examples:

• open current directory: $ open .
• open home directory : $ open ~
• open program files: $ open ~/c/Program\ Files

Note: that last one assumes you have made a symlink in your home to /cygdrive/c/

$ cd ~; ln -s /cygdrive/c

Here is the original thread that I found this tip in:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-09/msg00632.html

There are a few solutions posted, my favorite is:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-09/msg00635.html

This is a very simple webapp. It displays images that iPhones and iPod Touches can use as wallpaper. There isn’t really a need for offline use with the iPhone, but the iPod Touch could benefit from it. It took me about 10 minutes to learn what to do, and implement [...]]]> The app: http://psyjinx.com/iphone/

This is a very simple webapp. It displays images that iPhones and iPod Touches can use as wallpaper. There isn’t really a need for offline use with the iPhone, but the iPod Touch could benefit from it. It took me about 10 minutes to learn what to do, and implement it for full offline use. The key to making a web app work offline is to add a manifest file.

The manifest file: I named mine page.manifest, but it can be anything.manifest. The first line must be CACHE MANIFEST

CACHE MANIFEST
 
# html
index.html
 
# images
wallpaper1.jpg
wallpaper2.jpg
wallpaper3.jpg 
wallpaper4.jpg
wallpaper6.jpg
wallpaper7.jpg
wallpaper8.jpg
background.png
favicon.ico

Add this to your html file:

<html manifest='page.manifest'>

The manifest file must be served as text/cache-manifest. Add this to your apache conf file in the mines section. My apache install had a mime.types file

text/cache-manifest    manifest

Restart apache and you are done

References:

• http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/documentation/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariWebContent/Client-SideStorage/Client-SideStorage.html
• http://www.thecssninja.com/javascript/how-to-create-offline-webapps-on-the-iphone
• http://www.w3.org/TR/offline-webapps/#offline