Archive for March, 2009

Google Updates Gmail Label Column Width

March 26, 09 by cjgibbs

It’s been almost 10 months since I posted Gmail Feature Request and what do you know? Google answered!

Well, maybe not directly but either way the problem has been fixed! As you can see in the picture on the right, the Gmail navigation column (including the labels) was increased by 23 pixels!

So thanks Google.

CAS Authentication in an iPhone App

March 20, 09 by cjgibbs

We use CAS here at ACU for our single sign-on service and it works great but trying to authenticate with it from an iPhone app can be a little tricky. Luckily the latest versions of CAS server can implement a RESTful protocol which can be used to programatically obtain a Ticket Granting Ticket and subsequent Service Tickets.

I’ve been able to successfully do this in a native iPhone app but the method still needs refinement. I’m posting this to see if anybody else is doing this or knows of a better method. If anyone else is interested I’d be glad to share code, just let me know.