Archived articles - October 2014

A lot of, especially desktop applications implement plugin approach in order to make application more expendable and allow other vendors to include their specific functionality related to applications with plugins. Usually plugins are available from some sort of repository from which user can select and download them directly to application...read more

Recently I was adding GitHub project section to my blog when I run into the following exception "The server committed a protocol violation. Section=ResponseStatusLine" After some time of Google-ing I found few solutions, but the most simplest one was actually the best one...read more

ASP.NET comes with built in login form both for WebForms or MVC, but sometimes you have to do it in a custom manner where permanent authentication cookie needs to be set from your code following your business logic. First thing you have to do is to set expiration time for authentication cookie in web.config. This is for done first to make sure that your cookie does not expire during your testing. ...read more

Recently I started a small project for image optimization which relies on public image optimization services available online. For now it supports Yahoo SmushIt and Compressor.io services, but it will be extended over the time. Project is open-source and hosted at GitHub https://github.com/dejanstojanovic/ImageOptimization. ...read more

Most popular social networks such is Facebook and Google+ are providing authentication for web applications with fancy javascript pop-ups. However this approach might not work in all browsers and most likely not on every device. For example this approach does not work on iPhone or iPad because browser itself does not allow pop-ups...read more