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{ Yearly Archives } 2007

WordPress Permalink Changes

While upgrading my WordPress installation, I decided that the permalink structure’s inclusion of the “/archives” string was superfluous. http://www.laurenwood.org/anyway/2007/10/04/sample-post/ contains as much relevant information as http://www.laurenwood.org/anyway/archives/2007/10/04/sample-post/. So I changed the permalink structure, and also installed Dean’s Permalinks Migration to take care of the 301 redirection of links to the old URLs. So far it seems [...]

Personality Types

I’ve worked at companies that did Myers-Briggs/Keirsey temperament testing on people, and just for fun decided to try out another couple of tests over the last couple of months, most recently at mypersonality.info. It seems my personality type wanders, from INTJ to INTP and over to ISTJ. Either that, or I look at myself differently [...]

Sun’s OpenID IdP: Summary

I’ve now finished my current batch of postings about Sun’s OpenID IdP. Here’s a listing of the relevant postings that the team has made. I’ll add new postings to this list as they’re published, or as I find them.

Purpose and Policies

my Sun’s OpenID IdP: Introduction
my Sun’s OpenID IdP: Business Purpose
my Sun’s OpenID IdP: Data Governance
my [...]

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WordPress and File Masks

I upgraded to WordPress 2.3 at the weekend. Everything seemed to upgrade properly with no database errors, but I was getting a 500 Internal Server Error when I tried to look at the site pages. The error logs contained the answer – error: file is writable by others with a pointer to the main index.php [...]

Sun’s OpenID IdP: Trust

Part of a series on Sun’s OpenID@Work initiative; see the introduction for more context.
Trust is always an issue on the web. People don’t usually even think about it, but they trust the DNS server to point their browser at the right web site when they click on a link, they trust the web server to [...]

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Sun’s OpenID IdP: Real vs Fake

Part of a series on Sun’s OpenID@Work initiative; see the introduction for more context.
Probably the biggest discussion we had in the entire policy discussion was whether to let Sun employees use fake or fictitious names, or whether to force the use of real names in what the OpenID simple registration extension calls the fullname. The [...]

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