Archive for October, 2008

ASP.NETs Forms Based Authentication

By Jamsi • Oct 31st, 2008 • Category: ASP.NET

Websites that offer membership based services often require their important files to be secured from non-members. For this purpose, they need to implement form based authentication that ensures that only members can access the files and even if a non-member copies the exact location of the file on the server, he/she is denied access to [...]



How To: Configure IPSec with Sonicwall

By Jamsi • Oct 23rd, 2008 • Category: Linux, Network Security

A few months ago, I had the pleasure of installing and configuring a VPN link between an outdated Linux box and a Sonicwall TZ170. Oh the joys I had in getting this to work ..
The Sonicwall device was located in a data center, whilst the Linux machine was located in an office protecting a 192.168.0.0/24 [...]



Ubuntu Virtual Machine

By Jamsi • Oct 23rd, 2008 • Category: Linux

One of the biggest problems I faced when I made the switch to Ubuntu was my workplace. You see, I’m often assigned to projects that require me to work on websites and online systems using ASP.NET and C#. It’s these projects that require me to have access to Visual Studio 2005 and mSQL on my [...]



Meebo Crashes Firefox on Ubuntu

By Jamsi • Oct 23rd, 2008 • Category: Linux

So I felt like some instant messaging action and my favorite IM client at the moment is web based Meebo, which allows you to log into multiple IM networks using the one sexy, Ajax client otherwise known as Meebo. But BAM, Firefox closed without a hint of what the problem was. So I tried again, [...]



The GridView fired event PageIndexChanging which wasn’t handled

By Jamsi • Oct 22nd, 2008 • Category: ASP.NET

If you’ve set a gridviews AllowPaging attribute to “true”, you’ll notice the following error;
The GridView fired event PageIndexChanging which wasn’t handled



Line Numbers in Eclipse

By Jamsi • Oct 18th, 2008 • Category: Java

It’s 4am in the morning. You’ve been coding in Java for the past 6 hours and realise something’s missing from your Eclipse editor .. something that can confirm that the last 6 hours weren’t a WASTE of time..
and that is line numbers.
To turn on line numbering in Eclipse, simply do the following;
1) Windows -> [...]



How To Install Twhirl on Ubuntu

By Jamsi • Oct 10th, 2008 • Category: Linux

Whoa. I didn’t think this was possible.. BUT If you’re a twitter addict, there there’s no better client like Twhirl. Twhirl uses the Adobe Air platform which is currently supported on Windows and Mac, and I found out today that there is an Alpha version which runs on Linux!
My man Seth Yates has a wicked [...]