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Thursday, December 17, 2015

Open Live Writer is finally here!

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Just over a week ago Scott Hanselman dropped the news that an open source version of the popular Windows Live Writer blogging application has finally been released. The Windows Live Writer application has been a popular publishing platform for years, but has not been updated since 2012. Earlier this year Hanselman ignited the communities interest by tweeting that talks were under way to open source the app.

The wait is finally over. You can download it here:

http://openlivewriter.org/

The application is still “old” compared to 2015 standards… but now that it is open source, I’m confident the community is going to run with it. Just in the past week the authentication for the popular Blogger service has been updated to work with the OAuth 2.0 spec.

Happy Blogging!

Monday, December 7, 2015

Let’s Encrypt!

Just last week LetsEncrypt.org entered public beta. This is newsworthy because SSL and TLS security are becoming more and more important for web applications, and the developers that create them. I won’t go into the details of the importance of using SSL and other stronger forms of transport layer security (TLS). There's a plethora of information on the web, as well as my favorite training site, Pluralsight.com. But, it suffices to say, if you are creating a web app these days, you need to be using SSL.