Friday, May 30, 2014

Objective-C has Arrays and NSMutable Arrays.

The former has a fixed size and the later may have new items added into it not unlike a List of T in C#.

Thursday, May 29, 2014

PCI history

It seems Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard approaches are not required by U.S. Law, but are instead just required in Minnesota and Nevada (while Washington State law gives heavy incentive for an embrace of PCI) and thus the Minnesota and Nevada requirements effectively drive a nationwide requirement as who would want to make a shopping cart which attempts to sidestep interfacing with with two of the fifty U.S. states? The oldest of the Minnesota/Nevada laws is the Minnesota law and it goes back to 2007. PCI as an idea goes back less than ten years to the tail end of 2004. Amongst the requirements for compliant web sites are things like:

  • session data may only be kept for X minutes
  • users must change their passwords every Y days
  • etc.

If you make a page in Sharepoint in a library and no one can see your page but you...

Maybe you need to "check in" or "publish a major version" and if you navigate up one level to the library itself and then click upon the name of your page within the library a menu should appear with options such as these.

Create SharePoint wiki pages from within Internet Explorer!

  • Open the F12 tools in IE 11 and set the Document Mode to "9" to emulate IE 9.
  • Edit a wiki page full of links to other wiki pages and add something like this:
    [[My Page]]
    ...which will make both a new page and a link to it which you may click to enter it.
  • Edit your new page!

RAD used to stand for Rapid Application Development...

...and it basically meant: Check in anything you want.

We are moving offices at work and as we go through our things we have uncovered an old book on HTML from 1996.

It is the second edition of the HTML Sourcebook by Ian S. Graham, and it went home with me as nobody wanted it for some reason. 1996 was the year I learned HTML and I suppose that version of HTML, the version with the blink tags that existed before Internet Explorer, was HTML 3.0 per the book's cover. I suppose the XHTML (HTML as XML) stuff was HTML version 4 and now we of course have HTML 5. Version 3 was out eighteen years ago, huh? What were the first two versions?

When a DevExpress ASPxGridView has a column of checkboxes for selecting its rows, you may uncheck all of the checkboxes via C# in this way.

MyGrid.Selection.UnselectAll();