Monthly Archives: April 2014

OpenID and WordPress mapped Domains

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What happens to your OpenID account when you map your WordPress account to another domain?

The answer is that when you try to login to other OpenID sites (e.g. StackExchange) your login is not recognised because it is now mapped to the new domain. Even if you go ahead and create a new account on the other site with the new (mapped) domain, you can’t link your old domain to the new account because, for WordPress at least, your OpenID just re-directs to the new domain.

To solve the problem I had to do the following:

  1. Login to my WordPress account and change the Primary Domain back to my previous https://isolatedstorage.wordpress.com domain.
  2. Login to StackExchange, go to my account page and select my logins. When the pop-up window opens select the add more logins… option and enter my new (mapped) domain.
  3. Logout of StackExchange and then go back into the WordPress dashboard and revert the Primary Domain to the newly mapped domain.

This now allows me to login to StackExchange with either OpenID domain identifier.

Visual Studio 2013 and Visual Studio Online

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When I first saw Visual Studio online being advertised I didn’t think it would be something I would use that much. However, in the process of creating a Windows Phone application I was reading about the availability of Team Foundation Server as part of the VS Online package. Since I was creating my application in VS 2013 on my machines at home it was great to find out that I could have my very own TFS setup in the cloud; not only that but its also FREE for the first five users. This allows me to have the useful features of TFS and know that my code follows me where ever I happen to be developing.

I still prefer my ‘on machine’ IDE for doing my development and doing it on my Surface 2 Pro has proved to be very effective. The performance of the machine is fantastic and with the all day battery life I can do as full days work on a single charge. The backlit keyboard on the Type 2 cover also helps when you have ideas in the middle of the night!