Generating Certificates for use with the Windows Azure Management API

February 8, 2011

Windows Azure has a great Management API that service owners may use to perform tasks such as listing storage instances, viewing web roles, and collecting service statistics. In order to use the Management API the service owner must first create a digital certificate and upload it using the Windows Azure Portal (NOTE: I am using

Watch out for Base 64 Hacks!

January 22, 2011

I recently had a client call me and tell me their site was linking to a spam site from a Google search. Turns out that searching for their company name from several major search engines took users to the spam site, however typing the URL in directly revealed the site properly. After a bit of

PHP: Autoloader

August 9, 2010

SirGecko just released the first version of their PHP Autoloader. This auto loader is great because I can use it in any of my PHP projects and no longer have to keep track of and/or require() my objects. I simply drop this auto loader into my project, setup the directories my classes are in in

PHP: Downloading remote content with CURL

July 7, 2010

With fopen becoming increasingly scarce on web hosts, CURL is becoming a better and better solution to retrieving remote content with PHP. CURL is a fairly standard PHP module and chances are if your host does not support it a simple ticket will have them installing it for you. Because I am constantly loosing my

Retrieve remote JSON content with jQuery

June 30, 2010

I am currently working on an iPhone app using the PhoneGap project as a base. PhoneGap allows me to use my current web development knowledge to develop an application using HTML, CSS, and Javascript. A key component in almost all iPhone applications is retrieval of remote content. I am going to walk you through the