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Microservices with Benefits
There was a time where I felt a little bit embarrassed to admit that I didn’t
really know what a
The Power of Native
I've recently wondered if a Raspberry Pi 4 would be capable to work as a digital
photo frame that you
Two ways you can take advantage of types in JavaScript (without TypeScript)
TypeScript is often described as the solution for making large scale JavaScript
projects manageable. One of the arguments supporting this
The story of how I created a way to port Windows Apps to Linux
Some day during a weekend sometime around the summer in 2018 I was doing house
chores while listening to a
ElectronCGI 1.0 - Cross-platform GUIs for .Net Core
I'm very happy to share with you version 1.0 of ElectronCGI. If you don't know
what ElectronCGI is, it's a
ElectronCGI - A solution to cross-platform GUIs for .Net Core
.Net Core brought the ability to run (and develop) .Net in multiple platforms.
However, it is still not possible to
TPL Dataflow in .Net Core, in Depth - Part 2
  This is the second blog post on the Dataflow library. You can find the first
one here. If you
TPL Dataflow in .Net Core, in Depth - Part 1
  TL;DR - This article became so long that I decided to break it down in 2
parts. This is
ElectronCGI - Cross Platform .Net Core GUIs with Electron
UPDATE 2019-12-17: There's a new version of ElectronCGI, you can find out more
about it here. It was a very
ASP.NET Core Web Api Antiforgery
When deciding how to secure a Web Api there are a few choices available, for
example you can choose to
Sign in with an External Login Provider in an Angular Application Served by
ASP.NET Core
  Being able to sign in with an external login provider (for example Google or
Facebook) is a good way
Software Development as an Emergent System
Emergent systems are sometimes described as systems where the whole is greater
than the sum of the parts. I personally
Secure an ASP.NET Core Web Api using Cookies
There's this frequent notion that you need to use tokens to secure a web api and
you can't use cookies.
Everyone is watching what you do online. How user tracking with cookies works
  Have you ever visited a website to check out something you want to buy only to
be inundated with
Refresh Tokens in ASP.NET Core Web Api
  One thing that comes to mind when using access tokens to secure a web api is
what do you
ORM-less Data Access in .Net Core
The use of Object Relational Mapper libraries (ORMs) is so prevalent today that
it's uncommon to see anyone question their
IIS, colons in the URL and Angular named outlets
  Angular routing supports multiple views through a feature named router
outlets. This feature allows for parts of the same
Setting up Entity Framework Core
Setting up Entity Framework in .Net Core can at times seem difficult. It's easy
to hit speed bumps like not
ASP.NET Core Development in Linux
When .Net Core came out there was a lot of excitement about the idea of
developing .Net code outside of
Logging in .Net Core Console Apps
Being able to quickly throw together a console application is a good way to
automate a repetitive task. Sometimes these
Angular and ASP.NET Core
  The Angular CLI provides a way to develop front-end applications using angular
that hides a lot of details. For
Anatomy of an ASP.NET Identity PasswordHash
Have you ever looked at a user record in an ASP.NET Identity's users table and
wondered just what is being
Things you wanted to know about storing passwords but were afraid to ask
Security breaches are very common. To make matters worse, when it comes to
users' passwords it is frequent that no
Create Your Own ASP.NET Core Middleware
ASP.NET Core uses the notion of a pipeline of middlewares. Each time a request
is handled by ASP.NET, it goes
Secure a Web Api in ASP.NET Core
There are a few resources that you can find that teach how to secure an ASP.NET
Core web application. I've
The Road to Modern JavaScript
When I recently decided to learn webpack I realized just how many new things
were added to the JavaScript ecosystem
Keeping Secrets in ASP.NET Core
There are things we don't want to make public in an ASP.NET project. The best
example is the database credentials
ORMs, Lazy Loading and Web Applications
What do these three things have in common? They are frequently used together. Is
that a good idea though? No,
Facebook Login in ASP.NET Core
Being able to have your users sign in to your website using their social media
account is a great way
External Login Providers in ASP.NET Core
Being able to have your users authenticate using Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc
is a great way to remove the annoyance
HTTPS in ASP.NET Core from Scratch
Recently, when looking at how to configure authentication using external login
providers (e.g. Google, Facebook) with ASP.NET Core I noticed
Using OpenSSL to Create Certificates
There are a few reasons why you may want to create your own digital certificates
signed by your own Certificate
Brief(ish) explanation of how https works
When learning about how to use OpenSSL to create self-signed certs, it became
clear to me that most of the
Rethinking email confirmation
We are very accustomed to how user registration works online. Enter your email,
possibly pick a username, enter password, re-enter
ASP.NET Identity Core From Scratch
Being able to have users create accounts on your website is the first step in
creating a service that you
Cross platform database walk-through using ASP.NET MVC and Entity Framework Core
The release of .Net Core made it really easy to use .Net and C# outside of
Windows. However, when it
Don't just turn off the cache
If you've ever had to deal with ajax GET requests in Internet Explorer you will
undoubtedly found out that IE
Electron is Amazing
TL;DR This post describes what I had to learn about Electron to be able to build
a cross platform pomodoro
How to make a web page that looks like a desktop app
Usually when you think HTML and CSS you don't imagine desktop apps, but nowadays
there are more and more examples
On Software and Hammers
In 1964 Abraham Kaplan said: "Give a small boy a hammer, and he will find that
everything he encounters needs
Hack your brain to learn more, faster and better
I had a really hard time naming this post. It's hard not to make it sound like
something dodgy, like
What exactly is a "unit" in unit testing?
This should be an easy question to answer, right? Turns out that there are
several definitions of unit testing, and
Principle of reasonable expectations
The area of design has a very elegant principle named The principle of least
astonishment. Sometimes it is also referred
Why composition is superior to inheritance as a way of sharing code
Inheritance is one of the pillars of Object-oriented programming (OOP), the
other two being polymorphism and encapsulation. Inheritance is therefore
7 tips to find code faster in a web application
It's difficult to locate where a certain functionality is implemented in a code
base that is unfamiliar to us, and
Time to start getting familiar with Owin/Katana
Owin showed up sometime in 2012. The first time I've heard about it was on an
Hanselminutes episode about Kayak
How to manually use the ASP.NET MVC's client side validation infrastructure
ASP.NET MVC client side validation is based on the jQuery validation plugin. It
can be said that MVC's client-side validation
Split your web application into smaller web applications
Working in big projects can be difficult, however most of that difficulty comes
from accidental complexity (mostly unnecessary complexity introduced
Setup ASP.NET Identity using StructureMap
TL;DR: If you find yourself in a hurry, and you just want to quickly check how
to setup ASP.NET Identity
WCF Security Survival Guide - Part 2 - Authorization
In the first part of this series I described how you can secure your WCF
service. The first part describes
Handle the keyboard like a Pro with easykeyjs
After being asked once again to add some keyboard shortcuts to a web
application, and being tired of doing things
How to gracefully handle added/removed dependencies in unit tests
NOTE: This is not my idea, this is Brad Wilson's, but it's so useful, and as far
as I know,
WCF Security Survival Guide
Setting up security in WCF can be a daunting task, there are so many switches
that you can turn that
Dependency Injection Without Referencing Implementations
Dependency injection is all about connecting abstractions with implementations.
Carefully defining dependencies produces a codebase with more abstractions
(interfaces/abstract classes)
What inverts in the dependency inversion principle?
Have you ever wondered why the dependency inversion principle is named the way
it is? The dependency inversion principle is
Authorization redirect loops in ASP.NET MVC
Are you having problems with redirect loops in your MVC app? Maybe you are using
ADFS or another identity server/security
Security testing without committing to a particular authentication mechanism in
ASP.NET MVC
Have you ever been in the start of a project where there is no agreement about
how to authenticate your
What does it mean to be authenticated in ASP.NET MVC?
Have you ever wondered how your user information gets to your action methods in
MVC? For example, when you use
Promises vs Callbacks
A few months ago I answered a question on StackOverflow that got a lot of
attention, especially after I've submitted
Finding out where in a codebase a jQuery event is being registered and
unregistered with the special events api
jQuery allows you to define extra functionality around events, namely it is
possible to define behavior that happens when the
Quickly finding and debugging jQuery event handlers with findHandlersJS
tl;dr: Finding event handlers registered using jQuery can be tricky.
findHandlersJS makes finding them easy, all you need is the
Interaction testing, fakes, mocks and stubs
Today I was procrastinating by reading unanswered questions at StackOveflow,
when I noticed a question about what Mocks are. I
TDD, BDD, [add every other method that promises software quality here] and the
tea tasting lady
What can possibly TDD, BDD or adhering to SOLID have to do with a lady that is
funny about her
Using ASP.NET MVC’s Html.DropDownListFor helper
Html.DropDownList is used when you need to create a view that has a dropdown
that allows you to select one
Where’s my ID?
Retrieving the value of an identity column from a record in a database table
after inserting it may sound ridiculously
Getting the right encoding in a SSH session using PuTTY
Recently I bought a cheap netbook to use as a media center at home, it came with
Ubuntu 11.04. Everything



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