Posted By Mike Bender / 24th June 2011
I recently began work on a RESTful web service using WCF 4. One of our requirements was to implement basic HTTP authentication (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_access_authentication). This wasn’t quite as straight forward as I initially thought it might be. After some digging around I came across a wonderful extension library WcfRestContrib (https://github.com/mikeobrien/WcfRestContrib) .
Proceeding after finding this library and use of their documentation I basic auth integrated quickly into the service. At this point I ran into another issue, Visual Studio 2010′s development web server (Cassini) does not support HTTPS. After some quick searching I stumbled across a post on Scott Hanselman‘s blog Working with SSL at Development Time is easier with IISExpress. I must say, what a life saver! Scott, as usual outlined the process wonderfully and it worked perfectly.
If you are in need of SSL while developing your ASP.NET or WCF web service this is the first and last place that you need look.
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Posted By Mike Bender / 14th December 2009
If you are anything like me you like to know that you are getting most out of your money when investing in a web host. You want near 100% uptime, great transfer rates, flexible back-end management and tons of scripts. I am glad to say that I was lucky to have come across Blue Host a few years back.
As an independent web designer for the past 7 years I’ve come across lots of web hosts. Some have been good experiences others have been horrible experiences, but most are simply middle of the road. Blue Host I must has one of the most comprehensive packages I’ve ever used. They use cPanel for the back-end management with lots of features and goodies packed in. They provide one of the largest bandwidth packages I’ve ever used and all for under $8 a month!
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Posted By Mike Bender / 10th December 2009
IP address,
hostname,
operating system,
robots,
browser,
referring URL (where do they come from),
visit date,
number of time the visitor has loaded the page,
number of visitor
the visited pages in the order someone viewed them
the last visited page
the search engine query that lead to your site (if applicable)
ranking of the most frequent countries, referrers, OS, browsers, robots, page views and hostnames
BBClone is a great website statistics application that provides great insight into how visitors access and navigate your website. BBClone provides many useful statistics including:
- Visitor IP address
- hostnames
- operating systems
- robot visits
- browsers
- referring URL (where do they come from)
- visit date
- number of times a visitor has loaded each page
- number of visitors
- the visited pages in the order someone viewed them (bread crumbs)
- the last visited page
- the search engine query that lead to your site (if applicable)
- ranking of the most frequent countries, referrers, OS, browsers, robots, page views and hostnames
As you can see this application can provide you with invaluable information. Unfortunately for Joomla! users the component that was released to the Joomla! Extensions directory was removed because it did not work with Joomla! 1.5.x. Luckily for any developer with a bit of familiarity with PHP and the installation/organisation of Joomla! 1.5.x a simple core hack can give you the statistics you want from your website.
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