Last time I wrote about this (seems like yesterday, but it’s actually been a while!) I talked a bit about security for RSS feeds, and in particular authentication, authorization, and encryption. At the end of that post, I promised to follow it with another post talking about how an online aggregator should be dealing with this [...]
Archive for: September, 2005
Write cool code, win a laptop!
On the heels of our NewsGator Online API launch, NewsGator has announced an API developer competition…basically, we’re looking for the coolest applications that use the NewsGator API, in three categories: Windows applications Mac applications Cross platform/mobile/web applications First prize in each category is your choice of a Dell D610 or an Apple Powerbook laptop, and [...]
PDC this week
I’ll be at the PDC conference for most of this week, along with two of our system architects…if you’re there, and you’d like to meet up and chat, send me a note. I’ll also be on a panel, “The Future of RSS“, on Friday morning – be sure to stop by!
Nick Bradbury Update
As many of you know, Nick Bradbury had surgery on Tuesday 9/6 for an acoustic neuroma. I’m happy to report that the doctor didn’t sneeze - Nick is doing very well, is in good spirits, and has started his rehab process. Please join me and all of us at NewsGator in wishing Nick and his family [...]
RSS “security”
I was on a call the other day with some folks in the industry, and someone made a comment to the effect of “we really need to come up with some kind of solution for securing RSS feeds – then we can really do some cool stuff.” Before I could get on my soapbox, someone else [...]
Spammers vs. Greg – back to even
A few months ago, this blog was crawling with comment spam. Yikes. Spammers – 1. Greg – 0. So around that time, I implemented a CAPTCHA validator here on my blog, so to leave a comment you’d have to actually read the funny letters, and type them in. All was well for a while…this actually eliminated [...]