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Authentication for voice, specifically Amazon's Alexa, has its limitations. The initial Account Linking process Amazon provides for identification works for many scenarios, but it is only done once (signing into the skill via the Alexa mobile app or website), and all subsequent sessions with the skill are linked - no…
Read more about Alexa, Sign In Every Time: Voice-Only Authentication Verification in .NET
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Chuck Norris could easily make a single app run on all of the platforms iOS, Android, and Windows - without any frameworks or tools. Most of the rest of us could probably do with some help.
Read more about Build Login in Xamarin with Xamarin.Forms
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As a software developer, it's your job to know your customers and their use cases well enough to create an elegant and functional solution. This understanding will help you succeed and ultimately enjoy watching them love and use your applications.
Read more about 5 Essential Tips for Building Developer Libraries
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If you've ever worked for a company with more than a few employees, you've probably seen some interesting phone systems.
Read more about Build a Phone System for Your Company With Twilio, Okta, and JavaScript
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What do OAuth 2.0 access tokens and hotel key cards have in common? It turns out quite a lot! A hotel key card is essentially a physical counterpart to an OAuth access token.
Read more about 7 Ways an OAuth Access Token is like a Hotel Key Card
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This week at Apple's developer conference WWDC, Apple announced a new feature, "Sign In with Apple" enabling users to sign in to apps using their Apple ID. This new feature is positioned as a secure and privacy-friendly way for users to create an account in apps. Most iOS and Mac…
Read more about What the Heck is Sign In with Apple?
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Nothing ruins your weekend quite as wholly as getting paged at 2 am on Saturday to tell you that there's been a data breach at your company. In this post, I'm going to talk about how you can reduce the risk of that happening by keeping secrets out of your…
Read more about Store ASP.NET Secrets Securely with Azure KeyVault
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Authentication is vital to all but the most basic web applications. Who is making the request, wanting data, or wanting to update or delete data? Can you be sure that the request is coming from the stated user or agent? Answering this question with certainty is hard in today's computer…
Read more about Simple Authentication with Spring Security
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Building web pages with user authentication can be a huge pain. You typically need to set up some sort of database to manage users even if you're not using the database for anything else. You would then need to store their password hashes, and you almost need a degree on…
Read more about Build Simple Authentication in Express in 15 Minutes
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With the ever-increasing use of mobile devices over the last few years it has become more and more important for web developers to anticipate the need for users on these devices. The first step was the ability to cater for different screen sizes, thus creating the need for responsive user…
Read more about Build Your First PWA with Vue and TypeScript
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There are so many options when it comes to building out a simple CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) app. The most refreshing data access layer to work with recently by far has been GraphQL. It's great because the developer can use a simple, strongly typed language to define models and…
Read more about Build a CRUD App with Node.js and GraphQL
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Our customers here at Okta expect a highly-available service that is always there when they need it. We've worked hard to design a service architecture that allows us to deploy code and do maintenance without disrupting our customers in any way.
Read more about Debugging JVM Performance Issues at Okta
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