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Interested in Android development? Then you should get familiar with Gradle, the only Android development build system that Google officially supports.
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How many times have you started a new job, and the first thing you see on the company intranet is a "Your connection is not private" error message? Maybe you asked around and were directed to a wiki page. Of course, you probably had to click through the security warnings…
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Entity Framework is one of the most pervasive Object-Relational Mappers (ORMs) for ASP.NET. An ORM maps an application's object entities to relational entities in a database, and allows developers to build and edit the database schema from the code. Furthermore, Entity Framework's design makes it particularly friendly for PostgreSQL developers.
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In the "stone age" days of the Internet, sharing information between services was easy. You simply gave your username and password for one service to another so they could login to your account and grab whatever information they wanted!
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Today I'm going to introduce you to one of my favorite pieces of security technology released in the last several years: PASETO (platform-agnostic security tokens). PASETO is a relatively new protocol, designed by Scott Arciszewski in early 2018 that is quickly gaining adoption in the security community.
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Curious what the experience would be like to trade in Javascript for C# on the front end? You are about to find out!
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Every web developer I know is concerned with the performance of their web applications. How fast will my app load? Will it handle a lot of users? How well will it lots of data? Will it scale? These are just some of the questions that developers ask themselves but very…
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WebSockets is a modern transport layer technology that establishes a two-way communication channel between a client and a server, perfect for low-latency, high-frequency interactions. WebSockets tend to be used in collaborative, real-time or event-driven applications, where traditional client-server request-response architecture or long polling would not satisfy requirements. Use cases include…
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If you're a web developer, chances are you have heard the term "JAMstack." Curiously, JAMstack isn't a solution to prevent clogged printers, something to eat on toast, or a way to make music. However, by the time you finish reading this tutorial, you'll understand JAMstack and its benefits, and learn…
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User authentication is a critical component of just about every web application. Unfortunately, while authentication is a core part of all websites, it can still be difficult to get right. Despite the Node.js community being around for a while, there still aren't a lot of simple, foolproof ways to authenticate…
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Although authentication is a common requirement for web apps, it can be difficult to get it right, especially if you're by yourself or part of a small team. That's why many sites choose to use OAuth 2.0 to let a third-party handle authentication for them. They just need to know…
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Quarkus is a container-first Kubernetes Java framework designed to have a super-fast start-up time and low memory usage. The container-first strategy emphasizes packaging the runtime environment along with the application code, allowing both to be tightly optimized and avoiding the endless updates and configuration problems that can come along with…
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