links for 2008-09-05

• Hands-on Custom Providers: The Contoso Times
  …Included with this whitepaper is a sample ASP.NET 2.0 application named Contoso Times (henceforth referred to as "Contoso") that models a newspaper-style content site and provides a hands-on medium for running several of the sample providers presented in this document. Specifically, Contoso is capable of using the following custom providers: ReadOnlyXmlMembershipProvider, ReadOnlyXmlRoleProvider, SqlSiteMapProvider, TextFileProfileProvider, TextFileWebEventProvider.
  (tags: dev dotnet aspnet security msdn)
• How To: Use Role Manager in ASP.NET 2.0
  …This How To shows you how to use the ASP.NET 2.0 role manager. The role manager eases the task of managing roles and performing role-based authorization in your application. It shows how to configure the various role providers for use with your Web application, how to create new roles, how to add a user to a role, and how to use the role management API for roles-based authorization.
  (tags: dev dotnet aspnet security msdn top10)
• ASP.NET 2.0 Membership, Roles, Forms Authentication, and Security Resources – ScottGu's Blog
  This is a great resource (from the source) for Asp.net security stuff…
  What I thought I’d try and do with this post is consolidate a lot of pointers to different ASP.NET 2.0 security resources in one place.
  (tags: dev dotnet aspnet security config top10)
• Visual Studio Magazine : Managing Web.Config Settings During Deployment
  …You're probably using the web.config file to hold the connection strings for your Web site. But that makes it difficult to move from your test to your production environment, especially if you're deploying to a Web farm. The solution is to start using Web Deployment Projects.
  (tags: dev dotnet aspnet config deployment)
• Controlling beet armyworms, cabbage loopers
  …Beet armyworm and cabbage looper are destructive pests of lettuce and other desert vegetable crops grown around Yuma County, Ariz., according to University of Arizona entomologists.
  (tags: gardening)
• Articles – ASP.NET Data Web Controls: Providing DataGrid Pagination
  May need to do this…
  Learn how to provide pagination support for the DataGrid Web control using the default paging mechanism. You will also discover the advantages of custom paging that allows the DataSource to contain only those records that will be displayed on the current page of data the user is viewing.
  (tags: dev dotnet aspnet)
• The Plague of Creationism « The Sensuous Curmudgeon
  …The purveyors of this madness have chosen to begin what is literally a war on reason by attacking the science of biology.
  Why biology? Why not chemistry, or maybe physics? Because biology — and specifically the theory of evolution — appears to contradict the literal way that some denominations read scripture, so the science-haters can present themselves as upholders of the faith against the purveyors of evil.
  (tags: rationalthinker irrational religion creationism)
• Debating Creationists: Where to Begin? « The Sensuous Curmudgeon
  Lots of links and discussion…
  You’ve come to the right place. First, we want to tell you about one that’s been available for a few months, but we just learned about it. It’s a list of informative links from New Scientist: Evolution: 24 myths and misconceptions.
  (tags: rationalthinker irrational religion creationism)

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