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asp.net 4.0 and 4.5.1 on IIS6 ( Windows Server 2003)
Two points to note: .NET runtime applications ARE supported on IIS (Windows Server 2003) . .NET appears as an extension in IIS ; You do need to ENABLE this extension.…
Tfs Server (2012 and above) installation and Configuration gotchas
Tfs requires SQL Server to be installed - and of late, it more or less mandates SQL Server Reporting Services be installed as well. I learnt this the hard way…
Sql versus NoSQL
This is a set of evolving thoughts and discoveries about NoSQL – when to use it – when not to… At a high level , the table shows the…
SOA Challenges–State Maintenance, Security
APIs Computer to computer interactions (see 2-way certificates for Web Service Security). APIs are tightly integrated into client code – Web Services work through a proxy – nothing from the…
Workaround for session fixation
Tomcat A new security feature for Apache Tomcat 7 is Session Fixation Protection. Essentially, when a user authenticates their session, Tomcat will change the session ID. It does not destroy…
WordPress – multiple wordpress user groups with their own Sandboxes ( multiple private blogs within a wordpress installation )
Here is a simple use case : You are building a community of users to do collaborative document editing ( create word, excel documents collaboratively – multiple authors can edit…
TFS 2012–Features, Typical Enterprise Architecture and Cloud Hosting
TFS 2012 has a lot of new features to ; Adding project management features to make it a one-stop solution for larger projects, it now offers Agile and Scrum templates.…
Migrating TSQL to PLSQL or vice versa
From TSQL to PLSQL Apart from syntax differences, there are a host of logical differences - For TSQL procedures that use temp tables or locks have no counterpart in Oracle…
Load balancing in IIS
Earlier versions of IIS ( and earlier) worked with Windows Load Balancer (WLB). For later versions, Microsoft offers an IIS extension called ARR (Application Request Router). With Azure hosted sites,…
SQL Server–Server versus Database Roles for application developers
App developers typically require ownership of the database that they are working on. This translates to giving them dbo (DB Owner) rights on the database. A dbo can do almost…