Sitefinity leaves a lot to be desired with the REST services. For example, take a look at the returned data from Sitefinity's news service out-of-the-box:

Last week I found myself debugging an issue with Apple Push Notifications service (APNs) on one of our development servers, and learning a bit about APNs certificates and Windows Server 2008 R2 with IIS 7.5 in the process.

 

My first task was to try to isolate why the push notifications weren't received by our iOS devices, so I started on my local development machine.  I installed the certificates into my personal certificate store, stepped through the notification code, and sure enough I heard my iPad chirping telling me the notifications were being received.  It turned out that the certificates ...

Recently I had the task of getting an Apache Tomcat installation working on a windows machine as a service. By following the documentation that is available on the internet I tried several techniques including the service.bat and Tomcat6.exe the service. There are tons of options available to install the service and unfortunately almost all of them are necessary. Installing the service over and over to get it running was turning out to be quite time consuming until I found the Tomcat6w.exe. The Tomcat6w.exe is a graphical editing tool for any installed Tomcat service. The fastest way i found to get ...