RESTful Windows Client

* Good tutorial
* WCF REST Starter Kit

AWS - Amazon Web Services

* Credentials

ASP.NET MVC

• Extensibility, Internal Flowchart (Pipeline pdf)
• ActionResult class diagrams
• Routing
• Web.config infrastructure
• How to use Role Manager in ASP.NET 2.0

Certificate error when redirecting http://localhost to https://localhost

On IE, after the certificate error page is shown, clicking "Continue ..." link doesn't work.

• "http://localhost" is by default is assigned to "Locked-down Local Machine Zone" by Windows (later than XP SP2)
• When "http://localhost/" is redirected to "https://localhost/", IE detect server SSL certificate error and shows an error page. 
• This error page is internally has URL "res://ieframe.dll/invalidcert.htm?SSLError=50331648#http://localhost/" and is considered to be in "Internet Zone".
• "Locked-down Local Machine Zone" by default doesn't allow navigation into its zone from a less privileged zone (e.g. "Internet zone"). Thus clicking continue button is ignored.

Workaround for this problem

• Acces "https://localhost/". "https://localhost" is by default considered "Local Intranet zone" thus navigating from "res://ieframe" is possible.
• Access "http://127.0.0.1/". "http://127.0.0.1/" is by default considered "Internet zone" thus navigating from "res://ieframe" is possible.
• Add "http://localhost" to "Trusted Zone". "Trusted Zone" allows navigation from "Internet Zione" thus navigating from "res://ieframe" is possible. 
• Using Group policy editor (gpedit.msc), edit User Configuration - Administrative Templates - Windows Components - Internet Explorer - Internet Control Panel - Security Page - Locked-down Local Machine Zone, and set "Web sites in less privileged Web content zones can navigate into this zone" to Enabled (don't forget to set the Options part inside the dialog to "Enabled" too).

Notes: Adding "http://localhost" to "Trusted zone" (or any other zones) internally remove it from "Locked-down Local Machine Zone". If "http://localhost" is afterwards removed from "Trusted zone", it will no longer explicitly bound to any zone and will be considered to belong to "Internet zone". Thus the problem reported here won't reappear after the removal.

Installing SSL Certificate

Installing certificate on server

• http://www.globalsign.com/support/install/install_iis7.php
• Multiple common names for certificate using Self-SSL

Installing certificate on clients

• http://www.mclnet.co.jp/tech/other/ssl-crt-install.html
• http://blogs.technet.com/b/sbs/archive/2008/05/08/installing-a-self-signed-certificate-as-a-trusted-root-ca-in-windows-vista.aspx

MVC custom authorization and jQuery redirect

http://beckelman.net/post/2010/04/01/Custom-ASPNET-MVC-Authorization-Attribute-For-Ajax-Requests.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/rickandy/archive/2011/05/02/securing-your-asp-net-mvc-3-application.aspx

Tuning jQuery: http://www.artzstudio.com/2009/04/jquery-performance-rules/

Memory leak: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1462649/jquery-memory-leak-with-dom-removal

Cryptography

Shared-key encryption

• c = Enc(key, msg) ----(c)---- msg = Dec(key, c)

Shared-key signature

• m,a = h(key, m) ----(m,a)---- m,a =? h(key, m) 

Public-key encryption

• c = Enc(P-recv, m) ----(c)---- m=Dec(S-recv,m)

Public-key signature

• m,a = f(S-send, m) ----(m,a)---- m,a =? g(P-send,m)

Certificate is basically a message signatured by a Certificate Authority (CA)

• m,a = f(S-CA, m) ----(m,a)---- m,a =? g(P-CA, m)

SSH see a good summary at http://aperiodic.net/phil/ssh/

• Host sends its public key to client for authentication
• Key authentication
• Client generate public-private key pair
• public key is sent to Host
• Client doesn't need password anymore (it needs to input passphrase for accessing the private key though)
• ssl-agent is used to remember the passphrase so that client can log into host without being asked anything
• Sequence for Key authentication
• Client connect to Server
• Server returns a 'challenge'
• Client create an 'authenticator' from the challenge and its private key, and send it back to Server
• Server check the 'authenticator' using the Client's public key
• SSH-Transport layer uses Key Exchange algorithm
• One example is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffie%E2%80%93Hellman_key_exchange

Jargon of terms: http://identityaccessman.blogspot.com/

COM and ATL

Converting CComSafeArray to VARIANT

Summary of Window Features

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms632599(v=vs.85).aspx

prototype to jQuery

new Element -> $elem(...)
element.getDimensions() -> $dimensions(element)
element.className = -> $j(element).{has,add,remove}Class
element.addClassName(...) -> $j(element).addClass(...)
element.setStyle(...) -> $j(element).css(...)
element.select(selector) -> $j(selector, element)
$(element).readAttribute(..) -> $j(element).attr(...)
element.show -> $j(element).show()
element.hide -> $j(element).hide()
array.last() -> array[array.length-1]
array.clear() -> array.length=0

OAuth

• OAuth 2.0 protocol Draft: http://tools.ietf.org/pdf/draft-ietf-oauth-v2-12.pdf
• Facebook: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/authentication/

Let's make web faster

http://code.google.com/speed/

Spdy: http://www.chromium.org/spdy

Other techniques

• Keep-alive
• Http Pipelining
• WebSockets

Condor

* Condor week 2007

Web Programming

• Reference sites
• http://www.w3schools.com/
• http://www.w3schools.com/sitemap/default.asp#references
• Javascript Frameworks
• jQuery and Prototype side by side
• Javascript Module pattern
• Summary: http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2007/06/12/module-pattern/
• Bad side: http://edspencer.net/2009/10/javascript-module-pattern-overused-dangerous-and-bloody-annoying.html
• Porting prototype -> jQuery
• http://www.lukemelia.com/blog/archives/2008/05/18/5-tips-for-porting-javascript-from-prototype-to-jquery/
• http://remysharp.com/2007/10/25/prototype-and-jquery-going-from-one-to-the-other/

Direct3D

* Cannot be used from session 0
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/978635

* WARP: Windows Advanced Rasterization Platform
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg615082.aspx

Medical Image Visualization

* http://www.vismd.de/doku.php?id=publications:paperall
* MevisLab: http://www.mevislab.de/fileadmin/docs/current/MeVisLab/Resources/Documentation/Publish/index.html
* Medical Imaging Toolkit: http://www.metk.net/help.html

Coding guidelines

Taken from ACCU mailing list:

 * Applied Informatics (2008). /C++ Coding Style Guide, Rules and
   Recommendations/. Retrieved on 20 August 2008.
   http://www.appinf.com/download/CppCodingStyleGuide.pdf

 * Construx (2008). /CxOne General Coding Standard/. Retrieved on 29 August 2008.
   http://www.construx.com/File.ashx?cid=787

 * Gabryelski, Keith (1997). /Wildfire C++ Programming Style, With Rationale/.
   Retrieved on 20 August 2008.
   http://www.chris-lott.org/resources/cstyle/Wildfire-C++Style.html

 * Geotechnical Software Services (April 2007). /C++ Programming Style
   Guidelines/. Retrieved on 20 August 2008.
   http://geosoft.no/development/cppstyle.html

 * Google (2008). /Google C++ Style Guide/. Retrieved on 26 August 2008.

   http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/cppguide.xml

 * Henricson, Mats , Erik Nyquist and Ellemtel Utvecklings AB (1997).
   /Industrial Strength C++/. Retrieved on 20 August 2008.
   http://hem.passagen.se/erinyq/industrial/

 * Hoff, Todd (1 March 2008). /C++ Coding Standard/. Retrieved on 20 August 2008.
   http://www.possibility.com/Cpp/CppCodingStandard.html

 * Lockheed Martin Corporation (December 2005). /Joint Strike Fighter Air
   Vehicle C++ Coding Standards/. Retrieved on 20 August 2008.
   http://www.research.att.com/%7Ebs/JSF-AV-rules.pdf

 * Philips Medical Systems (19 May 2005). Coding Standard: C#". Retrieved on
   20 August 2008.
   http://www.tiobe.com/standards/gemrcsharpcs.pdf

 * Stroustrup, Bjarne (2 May 2008). /C++ Style and Technique FAQ/. Retrieved
   on 20 August 2008.
   http://www.research.att.com/%7Ebs/bs_faq2.html

 * Sutter, Herb and Andrei Alexandrescu (November 2004). C++ Coding Standards.
   Addison–Wesley. ISBN-10 0321113586, ISBN-13 978-0321113580.
   http://www.gotw.ca/publications/c++cs.htm

 * The Programming Research Group (May 2004). /High-integrity C++ Coding
   Standard Manual, Version 2.2/. Requested from
   http://www.codingstandard.com/.

GPU for Web Applications

See http://www.softwarequalityconnection.com/2011/09/making-the-most-of-gpu-acceleration-in-your-web-apps/

Some frameworks for WebGL

Getting started with Three.js

Volume rendering example

How to kill a process tree on Windows

Option 1: Query the system to generate the process tree, then kill each process in the tree as noted below.


http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3235218/how-terminate-child-processes-when-parent-process-terminated-in-c/5680096#5680096

However, there is a corner case that if some of the processes in the tree invokes some other processes between the step collect process <=> create tree, then we will miss the newly created process.

Option 2: Use Job Objects mechanism provided by Windows

On the topmost parent, create a Job Object and assign the current process to it. This way, the later invoked descendant processes are automatically added into the Job Object. Then we can kill the Job Object to kill the entire tree.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms684161%28VS.85%29.aspx

This option avoid the corner case on Option 1, however, we need to program the code into the parent process in order to do this. 

Example of using Job Objects from C#

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3342941/kill-child-process-when-parent-process-is-killed

DLL Init/Cleanup sequence

See ctrdll.c 
- crtdll.c: BOOL WINAPI _CRT_INIT()
- crtdll.c: BOOL __cdecl __DllMainCRTStartup()
  ... this call _CRT_INIT()
- crtexe.c: int __tmainCRTStartup()
  ... similar to __DllMainCRTStartup()


Basic sequence for DLL_PROCESS_ATTACH
for each DLL
 - Call __CRT_INIT() -> invoke C initializers then C++ constructors
 - Call DllMain hook


Basic sequence for DLL_PROCESS_DETACH
for each DLL
 - Call DllMain hook
 - Call __CRT_INIT() -> invoke C+_ destructors and C atexit()/_onexit() ... reverse order of initialization


Basic sequence for DLL_THREAD_ATTACH and DLL_THREAD_DETACH
for each DLL
 - Call DllMain hook


CWinApp::InitInstance and CWinApp::ExitInstance are called as part of DllMain hook (they are only called for DLL_PROCESS_ATTACH and DLL_PROCESS_DETACH).


Article regarding the order of DLL loading:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oleglv/archive/2003/10/28/56142.aspx

"Well, turns out that the loader seems to be preserving the order in which the imported DLLs are listed in the Imports Section of the loading executable."

jQuery

Resources

• jQuery main page
• Learning resources
• jqGrid (a grid controller plugin for jQuery)
• jQuery boiler plate
• Visual jquery

jQuery notes

Installer

How to enable Windows Installer logging
* http://support.microsoft.com/kb/223300

* Many tips
http://www.robertdickau.com/msi_tips.html

* Orca MSI editor
http://www.technipages.com/download-orca-msi-editor.html

Image display comparison

http://www.virtualdub.org/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=146

DICOM

* List of DICOM tag names

Bull's eye

* Bull's eve fusion on Volume Rendering
* Technical Aspects of Bull's eye

Hearts
- {Left,Right} x {Atrium,Ventricle}
- Diastole, Systole
- Left Ventricle -> Apex ... Base
- Coronary arteries:
  - RCA: Right Coronary Artery
  - LAD: Left Anterior Descending
  - LCX: Left Circumflex

* Good introduction inside the thesis

Isosurface rendering

http://www.csc.lsu.edu/~karki/SV/09-Isosurfacing.pdf

SlimDX, .NET wrapper for DirectX: http://slimdx.org/

Javascript HTML CSS

* Non-integer offsetWidth and offsetHeight in IE9 and FF4
http://vadikom.com/dailies/offsetwidth-offsetheight-useless-in-ie9-firefox4/


* Memory Leak:
http://www.javascriptkit.com/javatutors/closuresleak/index.shtml
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Bb250448
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1051090/how-can-i-control-ie6jqueryjquery-ui-memory-leaks
http://www.reigndropsfall.net/2011/01/05/internet-explorer-event-handler-leaks/
http://kirblog.idetalk.com/2011/06/prototype-17-memory-leak.html
Drip http://outofhanwell.com/ieleak/index.php?title=Main_Page

* How to handle IE6
http://www.virtuosimedia.com/dev/css/ultimate-ie6-cheatsheet-how-to-fix-25-internet-explorer-6-bugs


* Speeding up access
http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html

* Cache control

Four headers:
◆ Last-Modified
◆ Expires
◆ Pragma
◆ Cache-Control
   - public:             Can be cached anywhere
   - private:            Only cacheable by browsers
   - no-cache:           Cannot be cached anywhere
   - must-revalidate:    Caches must check for newer versions
   - proxy-revalidate:   Proxy caches must check for newer versions
   - max-age:            A duration, in seconds, that the content is cacheable
   - s-maxage:           Overrides the max-age value for shared cachesC

Conditional GET and Etag http://jagbarcelo.blogspot.jp/2009/03/conditional-get-and-etag-implementation.html

Caching tutorial http://www.mnot.net/cache_docs/

CUDA Learning

• Summary of CUDA 4.0 New Features
• Andreas Moshovos lecture slides
• Textures
• CuPP C++ Wrapper
• CUDA lectures
• C:\ProgramData\NVIDIA Corporation\NVIDIA GPU Computing SDK 4.0\C\tools\CUDA_Occupancy_Calculator.xls
• NVIDIA Architecture and Fermi, see http://www.nvidia.com/content/PDF/fermi_white_papers/NVIDIA_Fermi_Compute_Architecture_Whitepaper.pdf
• Texture bind and multithreading http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=197400
• Volume Rendering using GPU

.NET Obfuscator

http://www.csharp411.com/net-obfuscators/

Memory Leak

* Visual Leak Detector http://vld.codeplex.com/documentation
* IAT patching technique explained http://domemtech.com/?p=504

PDF security

* http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Adobe/Gallery/PDFsecurity.pdf

iPhone Tracker

http://petewarden.github.com/iPhoneTracker/

ASP.NET MVC, jQuery, jqGrid

* Download MVC 3
* ASP.NET MVC Home
* jQuery and CSS
* Various ways to redirect pages

* ASP Session Object
* How to avoid Session reset when a directory is created/deleted

* Top questions on jqGrid

* Enabling Ajax on ASP.NET
* Using jqGrid with ASP.NET WebMethod

WPF Pixel Shader

* http://wpffx.codeplex.com/
* Shader Effect Visual Studio Project Template and Build Task
* Sample 1 http://khason.net/blog/hlsl-pixel-shader-effects-tutorial/
* Sample2 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/NyaRuRu/20080813/p1
* Tutorial http://cid-123ec1ed6c72a14a.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/Public/HLSL
* MSDN reference http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb509561%28VS.85%29.aspx

cygwin

step-by-step install guide: http://windowss7.web.fc2.com/special/cygwin/

Oracle Virtual Box

How to resize/clone a virtualbox harddisk with the current snapshot
How to enable Direct3D acceleration

Use Japanese on English Windows 7

http://snow-white.cocolog-nifty.com/first/2010/01/windows-7-3ea7.html
http://snow-white.cocolog-nifty.com/first/2010/01/windows-7-e900.html

Marshalling in C++/CLI

See the summary here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb384865.aspx