I have been spending the past day working with OpenID an getting it to work on a couple of different portals/web applications. OpenID works really well and I highly recommend it as an alternative method of authentication. In order to get started accepting OpenID credentials in your authentication model, or even to get started using [...]

John Andersen performed research on OpenID and implemented an OpenID solution to his testing ground SEO portal that he maintains. His portal now accepts OpenID as an alternate authentication method.

I recently pulled my hair out for a couple of hours on a problem that was really simple…I just was overlooking a setting. To help other people save time on this exercise I wanted to share my experience. I have OpenSuSE 11.1 virtual machine. I installed the NXServer on that machine so that I could [...]

Service-now.com is a power service desk administration tool. With it’s vast arms of flexibility, it can be a bit daunting to set up for a deployment person. Besides the Service-now.com wiki that is full of information, there are a couple of places where you get get some training materials or user manuals. Two places that [...]

One cool feature with service-now.com is the ability to resize many of their text-boxes. When you are in their script editor you will often get a smaller box than you like. For example, see the picture below of a really small box. The textbox can be enlarged (or shortened) by clicking on the resizing icons [...]

As of January 18, 2010, John Andersen started employment at the leading provider of ITSM as a SaaS solution. Service-now.com is headquartered in Solana Beach, California. John will be working remotely from his home in the capacity of a Senior Consultant specializing in Professional Service Integrations. John will be using his skills in programming using [...]