what do you use for your authentication?

rdAuth or othAuth? hmm..

I used rdAuth first and felt comfortable using it in my first project. Its really simple to use but when faced with a more complicated system that requires a more complicated authentication and redirection, my doubt begun using rdAuth. I was looking for another alternative such as ACL but hmmm.. I really do not like to read a lot and have no time to experiment on it.

Then i read about othAuth. I think othAuth is also ok and simple to use. It just that it has some configs that I cant afford to have such as the active field. I also do not like to set the group_id before i log in bec i actually need the group_id to tell where to redirect the user and I only want a single login page. Maybe im just toooo lazy to understand it but yeah i admit it, Im really lazy.. hehehe .. Another factor also that keeps me from using another auth system is that i already used rdAuth all over my code.. hmm.. that is quite a mess! anyway, i have no choice but to find a solution. So I extended rdAuth to set and get some permissions directly from the db. Thanks to othAuth for the idea

Anyway, any other good and simple auth system out there?

Update: I’ve created a new post for the xtended component. Read it here.

OpenDNS, an option to experience a faster(and smarter) internet surfing

I’ve stumbled on this new FREE service from a lockergnome article today. Its called OpenDNS. Its not really cakePhp related but of use for all. So, what’s OpenDNS anyway? Great question! Actually there are already a few articles that best describe this so i wont reiterate them here again. The best so far(for me) are as follows

- Open DNS (explains in layman terms)

- OpenDNS: Should you make the switch?

- user opendns to speed up the internet

- an article from wired news

and for skeptics and still wanna stay skeptic about the idea, here is an article for you. I like this kind of thinking.. It just make you think.. hehe.. anyway, its a good article from another point of view, how i just wish my isp is as great as his.

As for my experience, the installation was so easy using windows(havent tried it in linux and router configs). You dont have to install anything actually. Just follow these instructions. After that, I noticed the speed improve after my first visit to some sites. Tried it with wikipedia.org, friendster.com and merriam-webster.com and it was just like a wow experience. I think this is useful when your ISP isnt that so great. This is not a caching tool alright. What happened is not really my business to tackle so i’ll leave it to the experts and to you to understand(just read the above links).

However, I hope, with one blogger, that this service will not be used for collecting datas or surfing habits from the internet surfers. For now, I’ll use it till its fresh. hehe..