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You may have heard some buzz recently about the OAuth 2.0 Implicit flow. The OAuth Working Group has published some new guidance around the Implicit flow and JavaScript-based apps, specifically that the Implicit flow should no longer be used. In this post we'll look at what's changing with the Implicit…
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Working with databases hosted online has become easier over recent years. The emergence of Database as a Service (DaaS) specifically makes quick integrations much easier. It is important to keep application user data separate from personally identifiable information, especially in this day and age. When using a third party auth…
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Being a developer advocate can be a difficult job. Developer advocates are often responsible for writing blog posts, speaking at conferences, and helping developers use their company's products. If there's developer friction, it's an advocate's job to help educate their company about how to reduce it. Advocates are often recognized…
Read more about Pro Tips for Developer Relations, Part 2
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Reducing the time between a user clicking your application and the content being displayed is vital. Optimized images? Check! Minified CSS? Check! Minified JS? Check! But if your application is a single page app (or SPA) there is a large bundle of JavaScript that must reach the user before the…
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When designing software with a user interface, it is important to structure the code in a way that makes it easy to extend and maintain. Over time, there have been a few approaches in separating out responsibilities of the different components of an application. Although there is plenty of literature…
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I've always said that you can tell a lot about a person by the kind of music they listen to. Don't tell me you haven't had serious doubts about whether you can be friends with someone when you find out that they like a particular band or artist. In that…
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REST APIs are often written for enterprise-level companies as a way of allowing a client-side application to access core business logic. For many companies, simply extending their existing API by adding an endpoint for Alexa integration is the best way to manage that flow. For this example, you will use…
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Deploying applications is hard. Often you need console access to the server from which you pull the latest code and then manually instantiate into your container. In this tutorial you'll see an easier way using Tomcat: you'll create an authenticated web app and deploy it through the browser using the…
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"There is no Frigate like a Book To take us Lands away..." – Emily Dickinson
Read more about Build a GraphQL API with ASP.NET Core
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Using unit and integration tests to verify your code quality is an excellent way to show you care about your code. I recently did a bunch of work in the popular JHipster open source project to upgrade it to use the latest release of Spring Security.
Read more about Upgrading Spring Security OAuth and JUnit Tests through the 👀 of a Java Hipster
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Working in the security industry and having an insecure site looks super bad.
Read more about How to Configure Better Web Site Security with Cloudflare and Netlify
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ASP.NET Core is entirely open source, free, has built-in DI and logging, works smoothly with a fantastic ORM and has tons of built-in features within Web API framework, and on top of that you get Microsoft support for free, maturity and flexibility of C# and ASP.NET, it's evident that ASP.NET…
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