SOAP in unexpected “actually, quite easy” incident.

Wednesday, 09. 30. 2009  –  Category: sw, web

In web service access shuffle, today’s mission is introducing large N number of new backend pools, traffic rules and virtual servers to Zeus ZXTM balancers. No time for monkeying around in the web UI, better check out their well documented API. It uses SOAP, which I’ve never got busy with before – slightly apprehensive.
The reference [...]

OpenSSH’s SOCKS forwarding

Sunday, 01. 18. 2009  –  Category: stash, web

It’s always great to discover a feature in a tool you use everyday. Someone pointed out to me that, in addition to local and remote port forwarding, OpenSSH also offers what it calls dynamic application-level port forwarding. Put more simply, OpenSSH can act as a local SOCKS proxy punting the traffic out the remote end [...]

Using Single Sign-On To Integrate Ning With An External Site

Wednesday, 08. 20. 2008  –  Category: all, sw, web

Overview
Ning provide off the peg hosted social networks. The service is free unless you pay to not have their context-driven ads on your pages. Within a few minutes of sign-up you’re away.
Particulary cool is that they will let you at the source of your network. You can’t then wander off and run it elsewhere, it [...]