Creating a self signed cert using makecert

http://www.jayway.com/2014/09/03/creating-self-signed-certificates-with-makecert-exe-for-development/

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.0\bin\x86\makecert.exe" ^
-n "CN=CARoot" ^
-r ^
-pe ^
-a sha512 ^
-len 4096 ^
-cy authority ^
-sv CARoot.pvk ^
CARoot.cer

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.0\bin\x86\pvk2pfx.exe" ^
-pvk CARoot.pvk ^
-spc CARoot.cer ^
-pfx CARoot.pfx ^
-po Test123

WebMatrix.data

My favorite quick data access tool is WebMatrix.Data.  It went through a name change, I'm posting it here so I don't forget it. 

http://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.AspNet.WebPages.Data/

Forms Authentication Sliding Expiration and the SPA

Working on a SPA with Forms Sliding expiration.  The trick is how to let the SPA know the user has timed out.  If you make a call to the server, with sliding expiration enabled... the account will never expire.

I don't have a working solution yet, but thought I would post the observation.

TF-Git

Testing out TF-Git.  The tools for peer review are more robust in the git ecosystem than in TFS.  The workflow seems reasonable so far.  

 

https://gittf.codeplex.com/

Gitlab - Permissions and Groups

When setting up GitLab, before you start using it, be sure to set up a project group.  If this step is omitted, all projects are created under a user account and only that user can check in code. 

I have seen this issue three times now, so I thought I should post this.  This is unique to GitLab and there is not a visible analog in Stash or GitHub.

Do not use RequireJs and AngularJs

Do not use RequireJs with AngularJs.  It is premature optimization.  I have read many posts where they show how to use requireJs.  I have not seen one post that has empirical data PROOVING that using RequireJs improves the overall user experience in any significant way.

I suggest mastering alternative strategies for ng-repeat if you want to optimize something.

I spent a year and a half writing 25,000 lines of AngularJs code with no problems! We were bad developers and did not even minify and consolidating our JavaScript. The JavaScript was in ~30 different files. (We wanted to min and consolidate but the usual tools were not allowed in our secure and constrained environment.)

Most of the noise about using RequireJs is theoretical. I have yet to read a post where a team could not satisfy performance requirements established by the business using AngularJs and had to refactor to using RequireJs for lazy loading.

If the wire is your worry...

• consolidate your JavaScript into one file,
• minimizing that file,
• compress files across the wire

In most AngularJs apps the images are probably larger than the JavaScript.


Even Brian Ford recommends not using RequireJs with AngularJs. http://briantford.com/blog/huuuuuge-angular-apps

I would like to post more on the mechanics of AngularJs and why I feel this way, but time is short today.

Integration testing services with Jasmine 2.0

Testing real services using jQuery and Jasmine took some research. I saw in the docs that I needed to work with done(), but where?  The code below works.