Archives for Software Dev - Page 33
Safe(r) Domain Search
I was underwhelmed at the 'safe' domain search agents available. I particular encountered trust issues with some of the bigger registrars out there - including and hostgator. Two options that…
Tableau Server Authentication Options
Tableau offers three choices for end user authentication No Authentication – Use an API key to access the public visualizations. No username/pwd or any other authentication mechanism required TTA –…
Privacy and Security for consumer laptops
Those free WIFI connections in cafes do not encrypt network traffic. This implies that anyone on the same WIFI network as you is able to ‘sniff’ your traffic and possibly…
Tableau Server–Internal Users versus External Users
Tableau is a great product for creating and publishing visualizations. Internal users (part of your corporate domain) can publish visualizations – which the entire world (public users) can access. This…
Windows 10 Wifi
Just when I was getting used to Windows 10 (DEFINITELY an improvement on Windows 8), I started encountering frequent disconnects and dropped connections. Here are a few things to try:…
Quick troubleshooting of slow responsiveness on an IIS–SQL Server app
On the very first set of requests – monitor the incoming requests (by running a SQL profiler trace). In conjunction, on the IIS server, you may need to run a…
Resource Management Software
Does your corporation ever struggle to track its resources better? Does it continue to rely on spreadsheets to handle these critical resource planning issues? Enter PSA - Professional Services Automation…
Kendo UI versus jQuery UI
This is an (ongoing) compilation of some Kendo UI features (mainly GRID related) that have helped me save time (over doing it with jQuery UI) Offline Data Persistence InLine Grid…
TOGAF versus Zachman versus FEA
Zachman tells you how to categorize your artifacts. TOGAF gives you a process for creating them. TOGAF complements Zachman - and isn’t in competition with it. TOGAF views the enterprise…
SSL versus SSH and sFTP versus FTP
There are two different types of secure file transfer protocols which are in widespread use: Firstly, there is an enhancement to standard FTP (as defined in RFC 959), which…