Category Archives: Www

Gravatar

Just a little method to get an url to a public avatar image from gravatar.com. readonly static MD5CryptoServiceProvider _md5 = new MD5CryptoServiceProvider(); static Uri GetGravatar(string email) { const string uriFormat = “http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/{0}.jpg”; StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(); foreach(byte ch in _md5.ComputeHash( Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(email.Trim().ToLowerInvariant()) )) sb.AppendFormat(“{0:x2}”, ch); return new Uri(string.Format(uriFormat, sb.ToString())); }

Site refresh

Well I have no intention of the hassle with setting up Apache/php and installing Wordpress.net, so I built an HttpHandler to proxy the contents from my Wordpress blog to my web site, and modify the contents a bit on the way.

FoNTSdk updated

My websites has been down for a week after my web host’s server crashed. So I moved my sites to a faster and more reliable host – and it’s even a lot cheaper. In the process updated my fonts.dk site to a more updated design and augmented the site with some of my recent code [...]

Live Mesh (part 2)

Microsoft just opened up for another sign-up batch for the tech preview of mesh.com. But for US residents only! So my MSN profile and I briefly moved to The States and was able to sign up! I look very much forward to getting checking out the APIs. More to come…

Live Mesh

Microsoft’s latest technical preview in the Live line called Mesh really caught my attention. First it’s not every day Microsoft releases something that’s not in some way related to Office or a Windows server, and at the same time being a scalable, stable and free service. Secondly it’s based on a Ray Ozzie idea, which [...]

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