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What’s New in OData 4.0 Draft Spec 4 Jul 2013 | 12:24 am
The OData specification committee at Oasis released the new OData 4.0 draft spec at the end of May. It covers a lot of ground, and there was no “what’s new” high level summary available when the draft...
XACML is Dead? Long Live XACML! 9 May 2013 | 02:45 am
Forrester analyst Andras Cser has proclaimed XACML is Dead. Unfortunately, the data used to justify this proclamation is flawed at many levels. Disclosure: I am the architect of the XACML 3.0 PDP auth...
Delete Your WordPress Admin Account 13 Apr 2013 | 11:49 am
Reports are making the rounds of a “huge attack” targeting web sites running WordPress. I noticed suspicious behavior in the IP access logs of one of my web sites a little over a year ago. I turned on...
Window Firewall Won’t Start – Error 6801 26 Oct 2012 | 12:41 am
Great googly-moogly. I’ve been fighting with a variety of services on one of my Windows machines for several weeks. Windows updates have been deadlocked since mid August. Some troubleshooting guide su...
We Are DELL 28 Sep 2012 | 09:14 pm
Dell has completed the acquisition of Quest Software. We are now Dell! It has been a busy year or so. I joined BiTKOO in October 2010 to help expand and scale BiTKOO’s push into the nascent XACML exte...
First Cast Glass 20 Sep 2012 | 04:08 am
I’ve wondered for awhile whether my old electric kiln could manage the long slow heat soak required for glass casting. Flat kilns with heating elements in the top are recommended for hot glass work be...
Delphi Compiler Core blog (2003-2005) Added to Archives 14 Sep 2012 | 12:02 pm
Stage 2 of my personal Own Your Words quest has been completed. 75 articles I wrote for the Delphi Compiler Core blog from 2003 to 2005 while at Borland are now republished here on my personal site. Y...
Windows Live Quantum Mechanics MSDN Blog Added to Archives 13 Sep 2012 | 10:27 pm
In the spirit of Own Your Words I recently completed importing all 81 articles I published on my “Windows Live Quantum Mechanics” blog on MSDN while I worked at Microsoft in the Windows Live developme...
Own Your Words 13 Sep 2012 | 11:59 am
I learned the “Own Your Words” mantra the hard way several years ago. I’ve blogged on technical topics under a number of banners and web sites over the years. My blog moved twice while at Borland as n...
Broadening Horizons 22 Aug 2012 | 05:55 am
In the spirit of consolidating my online identity onto a server I control and actually own the content, I’m repurposing dannythorpe.com to include non-software stuff I’m into as well as the software a...
