You’re reading Jeff Watkins’ thoughts about Web application design and development with a little bit of technology ranting thrown in for free.
I’ve just checked in revision 255 which contains modifications to the Identity framework.
Probably the most significant is that the default Identity provider, SqlObjectProvider, model classes are now prefixed with TG_. So you have TG_User, TG_Group, TG_Permission, TG_SecretToken. This was necessary because the SQLObject registry feature is broken and prevents you from linking your model objects [...]
Some of you may already know that in about a week’s time I will become a father for the first time. My wife has already registered the domain name weewatkins.com so I’d like to create a Web site for her to post photos and short thoughts.
Does anyone have any suggestions of sites I can look [...]
I’ve always thought of Paul Thurrott as a Microsoft Apologist, however, in the last year or so, Paul has written articles that challenge my opinion. His latest article compares Windows Vista Beta 1 with Mac OS X “Tiger”, and while I agree with Scott McNulty of TUAW that comparing a Beta to a finished product [...]
Recently there’s been some discussion on the TurboGears mailing list about how to get around a flaw in SQLObject where the classes from the SQLObjectProvider model are causing conflicts with existing model classes sharing the same names.
It’s also become clear that many people want to extend the default model to include additional fields and capabilities.
So [...]
There are lots of Web sites out there you could read; so, why should you read this one?
Who is Jeff Watkins?
First of all, I’m a nerd. Sometimes it doesn’t show, but the moment a discussion about one of my favourite technologies starts it’s like a fever comes over me and I have to take part.
I’ve [...]