GUI went missing on Windows 2012

So, you have uninstalled .NET Framework from your brand new Windows 2012 Server and GUI went missing. Well, it happens.

MS SQL Server load testing with JMeter and stored procedures

JMeter is a great tool. I have been using it for quite some time for now, but mainly to test web application and web services. Recently I had to perform bunch of load tests on SQL Server, just to check if new one will be faster than old one. It turns one that JMeter is pretty handy when comes to simple SQL load testing.

Increase session token lifetime in passive federation scenario

I'm currently working on MVC 5 web application which claims based authentication. Recently I run into two small problems:

1. How to increase session token lifetime
2. Configure application to work properly in load balanced environment

AngularJS, SignalR and promises

Recently I have started to play a bit with AngularJS and SignalR. When I was developing first, simple solution I run into interesting problem.

DevDay 2013

I could not miss DevDay this year, mainly because of Jon Skeet. Master of answers on StackOverflow came to Cracow.

Windows Azure Active Directory Solutions

While I was looking for guidelines regarding implementation of WCF REST services with Federated Authentication I found this nice TechNet article with number of scenarios. It aggregates number of possible scenarios with pretty good explanation. And if you are looking for some more info in this topic, there is this nice free book from MS A Guide to Claims-Based Identity and Access Control.

Have a nice reading!

Running Selenium WebDriver UI tests from TeamCity

Task is fairly simple but require one tweak.

When you run TeamCity agent as service, you need to allow interaction with user desktop. Keith Dahlby created nice solution to enable this feature for service working under any account which is not Local System.

After this tweak, works like a charm!