Archive for October, 2009

Secure apache webserver with client certificates

If you want to protect your web-server you have a lot of different options. Basic authentication, LDAP, Kerberos, NTLM … and many more. Another option is to use client certificates that the user has to import into his browser. Using this technology the SSL handshake between browser and webserver only succeeds if the user has a valid (not yet expired) certificate installed in his browser … Of course this needs quite some maintenance effort – but if you have very valuable content that needs some extra security this might be a good option … you can read more in our apache howto section …

New flash player as runtime for all platforms announced

Adobe anounces a new flash player version, that could be a way to develop mobile apps for all platforms. Versions for android or symbian OS are estimated for the beginning of 2010. Beta versions are already available for testing … It is part of the “Open Screen Project” where also google is a partner since a short while.

We will be testing it to check if this could be “the future” for mobile development …

Powershell IIS Administration

You want restart an IIS application pool? Or create a new website in IIS 6 with Powershell? But there is no CMD-Let for IIS6.0 available?

You can find powershell scripts and functions here.

droidcon – android developer conference in berlin

The droidcon will take place on 03.11.-04.11.09 in Berlin. Topics will mainly be arround android development … we will be there and post the latest news … more info: droidcon

corporate SSO mediawiki installation howto

If you want your wiki to be an internal corporate tool with AD authentication / SSO integration you can use the following guide to do so. Check out our tutorial wiki

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