My work sent me to Microsoft MIX 2011 in Las Vegas this week. For those who don’t know, MIX is a conference for web developers who code on the .NET stack (ASP, WCF, OData). There were a number of interesting subjects covered over the course of 72 hours but on the whole, the conference was [...]

I am working on a javascript library for Campfire’s JSON/XML API. Even before coding my first request/response path, I ran into the issue of authentication. Campfire uses basic authentication over https for security. The idea is that the combination of a user’s API key and his group’s Campfire url (person.campfirenow.com) would be enough for identification. [...]