Coding Zen

I recently began work on a RESTful web service using WCF 4. One of our requirements was to implement basic HTTP authentication (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_access_authentication). This wasn’t quite as straight forward as I initially thought it might be. After some digging around I came across a wonderful extension library WcfRestContrib (https://github.com/mikeobrien/WcfRestContrib) . Proceeding after finding this library and use of their documentation I basic auth integrated quickly into the service. At this  [ Read More ]

Incase you haven’t heard Facebook is back at it. This time with their facial recognition software and of course it is by default enabled. Luckily you can now disable it. Follow these simple steps to do so. 1. Go to your privacy settings under account   2.  Click on “Customize settings”     3. Scroll down the page and find Suggest photos of me to friends and click edit settings  [ Read More ]