Jesse Ezell Blog

Jobs says Flash just doesn't cut the mustard and won't show up on the iPhone [1] [2].

Ryan van der Kooy asks:

"The two companies on Tuesday at Microsoft's Mix '08 conference are scheduled to announce that Microsoft will write a version of Silverlight for Nokia's Series 60 (S60) smartphone software that runs on Symbian OS. The software, which will be available later this year, will also run on Series 40 devices and Nokia Internet tablets. "

"Cue Scoble tears. This is one hell of a technology from Microsoft Research that I think will have a huge impact on how amateurs and hobbyists write music. The technology and software prototype is called MySong.

"Why should you put a 10 foot pole between yourself and technology?

Consuming WCF endpointpoints with SQL Reporting Services can be difficult. Most of this difficulty is for two reasons:

Two pieces of news today in the "damn that's cool" category.

When using WCF, you may want to integrate your security model into your application using claim based security. At this point, you will come across ServiceAuthorizationManager, which is responsible for evaluating policy statements to determine if the user is authorized to perform the requested operation. There is an interface, IAuthorizationPolicy, which you can implement to add your own claims to be evaluated by your ServiceAuthorizationManager implementation... there is one problem with this approach: the documentation you will find will most likely tell you to override CheckAccess in ServiceAuthorizationManager. However, if you merely override CheckAccess as in most of the provided samples, you will never see the output of your IAuthorizationPolicy implementation. As it turns out, the default implementation of CheckAccess sets up your security context as expected, but overriding CheckAccess will prevent this setup code from happening. Instead, override CheckAccessCore and your Security Context will be set up properly (the default implementation of CheckAccess sets up the context and then calls CheckAccessCore), or call base.CheckAccess as the first line in your handler to ensure that the basic setup of the security context happens before your code executes. This will save you hours of frustration.