HTTP Signed Requests with PHP

I thought I'd write a quick primer on a basic implementation of HTTP request signing with PHP. I see a lot of posts dealing with the topic, especially by people writing homebrew REST services. What are signed HTTP requests? Signed HTTP requests are simply a normal HTTP request, such as a GET or a POST, that happens to include a signature as part of the request.  A signature is just a string of characters generated in a...

ASP.Net Web Forms dying a slow death?

Being a web programmer for the last 10 years, I've seen a few different paradigms come and go in the web world. Looking around today, I can't help but think that the writings are on the wall for the ASP.Net "webforms" web application model. When it debuted, it was revolutionary to have a fully typed, compiled OO framework that was virtually portable to mobile and desktop. However, since then, ASP.Net has not done much to...