15 May 2020

25 links · Friday

How Not to Store Passwords

Here’s a fun list to look through: Dumb Password Rules. Most of the rules seem arbitrary, like only allowing digits, but some hint at deeper problems. For instance, preventing single-quotes. They aren’t inserting passwords into a database without a SQL placeho…

Auto Saving Form Data in Blazor

In this post, I show you how I designed a new form component which saves and retrieves form data to and from local storage automatically - until the form is successfully submitted.

The Dark Secrets of a Hacking Hero

This week, Andy Greenberg talks about his profile of hacker Marcus Hutchins, and we get an update on contact tracing programs helping to slow the pandemic.

Five Years of Rust | Rust Blog

Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

Roundup #72

Succinct C#, IHostedService Shutdown Timeout, try-convert, Coupling, Cohesion, and Microservices

Chain Actions, Funcs, and Predicates In .NET

It is always nice to learn something new, regardless of our experience. In this short but very cool post, we’ll learn more about a little known feature having to do with Action, Func, and Predicate in .NET.

Code Maze Weekly #25 - Code Maze

This week we’ve seen a flood of new articles, ideas, and implementations. There is something interesting for everyone, so take a sip of that coffee and choose your favorite topic! .NET and C# Using Dapper in ASP.NET Core applications [gunnarpeipman.com] Gunnar…

The HTTP headers you don't expect

Have you ever thought to find your next job in an HTTP header? cURL can reveal this and many more secrets.

Microsoft Build 2020

Join us for the Microsoft Build 48-hour, digital event to expand your skillset, find technical solutions, and innovate for the challenges of tomorrow.

EF Core and Cosmos DB with Blazor WebAssembly

With Blazor WebAssembly it is possible to use EF Core to access Cosmos DB directly from the browser. This post explores why, how, and what security implications and considerations exist.

More fun with comments

This is probably the least interesting screenshot I've ever shared and this one is only slightly more remarkable Yes, it's the same me...

What is Azure Front Door?

  For a Web Site or Web Application, the goal is pretty simple, provide the content and power interactions with users.  Seems simple, a little HTML here, a little CSS there, splash some JavaScript BAM you have web magic.  Then it starts to get interesting when…

EF Core and Cosmos DB with Blazor WebAssembly

With Blazor WebAssembly it is possible to use EF Core to access Cosmos DB directly from the browser. This post explores why, how, and what security implications and considerations exist.