Posted by left on April 24, 2015 at 9:30am
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2015-04-29 19:00 - 21:00 UTC Event type:
User group meeting
There's a meet up this coming Wednesday (Apr 29th) from 7pm at Dara Creative's offices, 19 Magennis Place, Pearse Street, Dublin 2.
Format is a casual round table with impromptu presentations and discussion, often followed by pints in O'Neill's pub.
Anyone have any new projects, issues, or exciting Drupal discoveries to discuss?
This is the last meet up before the upcoming Drupal Open Days 2015 so I'm guessing there will be some talk about that too.
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Can't make it.
I won't be able to make it this time, but let me know if you need help with something for the Open Days.
Regards,
Luis.
I'll be there!
I'll be there! Looking forward to it
See you tomorrow
See you tomorrow Stella, Jochen and everyone
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Web Services - follow up
Hi all
Following up from last night's conversation about accessing my clients booking system, thankfully it uses RESTful web services, so hopefully that part of the puzzle will be manageable (although no doubt I'll have loads of questions when it comes to getting it to work - so I apologise in advance for any daft ones I may ask)
But on the user authentication, as I thought, their current system doesn't have any security system in place like Open ID or OAuth. Worse still, their highly cryptic passwords (NOT) are stored as plain text. This just rings all sorts of alarm bells for me and it doesn't look like they intend to change the situation. So I'm looking for suggestions of where I go from here. I was thinking of setting up a Feed that would import/update the users and their passwords, so then the authentication will be handled by Drupal. What do you think? Or do you have any better suggestions (apart from staying away from this client!)
Thanks
Frank
P.S. I've registered myself and my bother for Drupal Open Days - 2 more for you Conor ;o)
Hi Frank, am I understanding
Hi Frank,
am I understanding you right that you have to use the wonky credentials of the individual user account for which you make the request? Then using Drupal as an extra security layer in front that can enforce its own stronger way of authenticating users is IMHO a great idea. You'd have an abstraction layer that will offer website users a consistent authentication method even in the event your client sees the light and decides to overhaul access to the web service in the backend.
Best regards,
Jochen
Jochen Lillich, CTO freistilbox Managed Drupal Hosting
P.S. I've registered myself
That's great!
Just to clarify -- did you mean your brother or your wife there? #SCNR
Jochen Lillich, CTO freistilbox Managed Drupal Hosting
Eh, my brother. No chance of
Eh, my brother. No chance of getting my wife - web design/coding is not her thing!
Also might have another sign-up. A client who is involved in mentoring SMEs. I have already built a Drupal site for one of her clients, and some of her other clients have had a number of recent bad experiences with hacked WordPress sites, so might be an opportunity to get some people to jump ship!
I've also posted a promo on CreativeIreland.com and I'll post a promo to my LinkedIn connections.
F