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Here’s a list of abstract methods I have to implement on my custom MembershipProvider which aren’t applicable since I’m planning on using CardSpace as my login mechanism which doesn’t have any passwords:
bool ChangePassword(string username, string oldPassword, string newPassword)
bool ChangePasswordQuestionAndAnswer(string username, string password, string newPasswordQuestion, string newPasswordAnswer)
bool EnablePasswordReset
bool EnablePasswordRetrieval
string GetPassword(string username, string answer)
int MaxInvalidPasswordAttempts
int MinRequiredNonAlphanumericCharacters
int MinRequiredPasswordLength
int [...]

Boing Boing: Understanding Games: short interactive videos on game design
Understanding Games is a series of short animation/games that set out to explain how and why video games work
(tags: gamedev)

ASP.NET Web: The Official Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Site : Videos
Lots and lots of ASP.NET and AJAX videos
(tags: web2.0 development)

Expresso Regular Expression Development Tool
Tool for testing Regular Expressions
(tags: [...]

Pandora Internet Radio – Find New Music, Listen to Free Web Radio
US ONLY: Pandora allows you to create your own radio stations
(tags: music web2.0)

CardSpace Claim Types – Identity Schemas Wiki
CardSpace Claim Types for self-issued cards
(tags: development membership)

This is so unfair! I’ve spent this last week figuring out how to build my own MembershipProvider so that I can use CardSpace on an ASP.NET website without resorting to card association and this morning I log onto my RSS aggregator and Kim Cameron is blogging about Christian Arnold who has built a Visual Studio [...]

MonoRail :: Castle Project
(tags: web development)

ConnectionStrings.com – Forgot that connection string? You will find it right here!
(tags: development)

SQL Server 2005 Express Edition User Instances
(tags: development sqlserver)

Identity: Secure Your ASP.NET Apps And WCF Services With Windows CardSpace — MSDN Magazine, April 2007
Associating Cards with an account in your ASP.NET website
(tags: development membership)

Writing A Custom Membership Provider for your ASP.NET 2.0 Web [...]

Internal tools need evangelism too!
If we look at any Microsoft technology, there are always a couple of people out there blogging about their experiences with it and providing links to samples and references. If we want to learn Java, PHP or C++ there are a whole host of sites willing to take us from [...]

PopCap Developer Program
(tags: gamedev)

ScottGu’s Blog : New “Orcas” Language Feature: Extension Methods
(tags: development)

Bundy’s .NET and BizTalk Server Blog : Embedding IronPython to validate data using scripts
(tags: python)

What’s this? My previous post was just a bunch of links? This doesn’t replace blogging; what the hell is going on?
It’s called Social Bookmarking
Social Bookmarking is the marketing term and Web 2.0 buzzword for the idea of sharing bookmarks and links; and the service I’m using is del.icio.us.
“del.icio.us is a social bookmarking website — [...]