Getting AnkhSVN to Work with an Umbraco Solution
Recently I have been developing a .NET portal, using the Umbraco CMS. Having gotten a couple parts of the application set up, I decided that it would be a good idea to get SVN set up with my code. In order to get my Umbraco installation set up, I created several masterpages, a slightly modified version of the CSS Friendly web controls, a couple custom controls to be used in their embeded WYSIWYG editor, and a couple static images and CSS files. Suffice to say, I hit a snag.
Job Hunting Advice
Recently I have been hired by
EdgeWeb Hosting. Through my job hunting over the last year, I think I have added a couple additional things to my personal advice I give people.
Installing Shibboleth
We are currently evaluating
Shibboleth, a
SAML 2.0 standards based Single Sign On (SSO) suit for our web applications. The installation is fairly gritty. This post started out as notes for myself, however it rapidly became apparent that these notes would be useful to others. I also noticed that this installation was taking multiple days, and that it would be too long for a single post. I will be doing a series of posts on how to do this setup.
R25 Event Creation Form, Now with Web Services
On March 12, 2010 I will (be giving)/(have given) a presentation on some work I did with R25 using web services.
The presentations title is ‘Using Web Services to Create Events.’
Exslt–Stale by 9 Years
Part of the exslt specifications include defining name spaces for their xslt extensions. I find it fairly amazing that most of the namespace definition pages (for example
http://exslt.org/strings and
http://exslt.org/dates-and-times) are still undefined. It’s somewhat deceptive, because when you are trying to implement a portion of the library incorrectly, the error message that the MSXML parser will typically say that their are no function definitions at http://exslt.org/dates-and-times. What the error actually means is that the function you are trying to use does not exist in the library you are importing.
Disco
Despite the drinking the night before, I woke up in time for some diving the next day. We went to another shipwreck dive site, the Earl of Shafters. The Earl was an old sail boat that had 3 massive masts. Compared to the other wreck, this landscape was wide open, with a sandy bottom. Generally speaking that made it less interesting to behold. We saw one manta ray, which was pretty cool. There was a school of fish that were mostly white with yellow tails towards the end of the drive as well.
Shipwreck Diving is Awesome
Friday’s dive was my first shipwreck dive, and I have to say it was pretty awesome. The ship’s name was the SS Conche, and it was an old oil tanker that went down around 1903. Supposedly it was one of the first oil tankers. The front half of the boat took most of the impact, while the backside was largely still intact.
Cheap Eats
Thursday I finally woke up early enough to go diving (8:30 AM). Though we did not see any big fish or predators like I did on Monday, there were hundreds of smaller fish swimming just above the large rock that was the main attracktion of the dive site. The rock was about 16 meters tall, and took about 40 minutes to swim around. The deepest part of the dive was about 20 meters.
Book Reviews
Suffice to say, I did not wake up in time to go diving on Wednesday either. I went with Danarathna to a used book store, that had more German books then English ones. I had finished the two books I had brought: ‘The Triumph of Politics,’ by David Stockman; and ‘The World is Flat,’ by Thomas Friedman.
Election Day
I was hoping to go diving again on Tuesday morning, but I woke up too late. In addition to the normal hoopla, today was the national election. There was a lot of tension around, both optimistic, and dreadful. The election was between the current president, and the general who recently finished off the civil war. Read the rest of this post »