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A little while ago I speculated that we would see a single sign on (SSO) system from Google at some point. It would seem that, for a change, Yahoo! has beaten them to the punch. Browser Based Authentication (BBAuth) circumvents the whole 'signing up for another account' thing by linking to your Yahoo! account and requesting permission for certain information.

These two articles popped up in my news reader today: 10 Things That Will Make Or Break Your Website 11 Best Practices for URLs Both make good reading and are full of sound advice for developers. Onto the reference shelf they go.

Interesting article on eWeek about password management issues within corporations. I think it would be fair to say that similar issues affect the domestic market, although without the regular enforced password changes. Most browsers implement some form of login management although this doesn't entirely solve the problem of having to remember your details and so discourages good password policy. Browser systems are also occasionally...

As a reminder for myself, and in case anyone happens to find it useful: if you run into problems making IIS send mail with CDOSYS from within a .asp file (VBScript) like I did today - this may help: First, put this at the very top of your script (before the language declaration, etc)

Wow, I cannot believe I've been doing version management manually as long as I have. This whole subversion thing has really opened my eyes in the past 48 hours. I've actually migrated all of my active code to it already - it's so easy!

First ever Subversion checkin (directory structure) seemed to go smoothly enough. Thank goodness for the Subvervion book (and Plucker so I could read it on my PDA rather than lugging the laptop to bed every night). I did forget to add a comment, which is a bit of a faux pas - must remember never to forget again! Next step is to actually upload some code. I'm also seriously considering using Subversion for some of my work projects -...

Just heard about this today: http://www.ibegin.com/ibox/ibox-test.html Had a play with it and it looks the business. Certainly when combined with AJAX it makes handling dialogues in administration interfaces that bit simpler and more user friendly. Into the toolbox it goes!