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August 25, 2020

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in Leadership

While waiting for online meetings to start, we often find ourselves passing that time in various ways. Unfortunately, this can distract us and possibly lead to us not being as engaged as we should be. There are things you absolutely should avoid doing while waiting for others to join an online meeting. As a person…

DPL Reading List – August 21, 2020

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August 21, 2020

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Each Friday, we share a curated list of articles we found during the past week. Here’s the list of the new and interesting ones we found this week. If there’s an article you think we should read, let us know in the comments below. Microsoft will bid farewell to Internet Explorer and legacy Edge…

A Super Simple JWT Example

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in Software Development Tips & Tricks

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August 18, 2020

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Need to set up a JSON Web Token (JWT) in a project with a .NET Core 3.1 backend? Here’s a quick and dirty example of how to do it. First, create a Web Application project. After we have a web application project, we are already pretty close to done. .NET makes this process easy. The…

DPL Reading List – August 14, 2020

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August 14, 2020

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Each Friday, we share a curated list of articles we found during the past week. Here’s the list of the new and interesting ones we found this week. If there’s an article you think we should read, let us know in the comments below. Yes, you can launch a new product in the pandemic….

A Proxy Controller for Managers?

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in Software Development Tips & Tricks

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August 11, 2020

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All of the systems we design use essentially the same layered architecture. Our top layer is the manager layer. That layer is often consumed directly from our controllers in our ASP.NET projects. This usually results in us writing many thin methods that just call our managers. But what if we didn’t have to write those…

DPL Reading List – August 7, 2020

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August 7, 2020

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Each Friday, we share a curated list of articles we found during the past week. Here’s the list of the new and interesting ones we found this week. If there’s an article you think we should read, let us know in the comments below. How Microsoft Flight Simulator Returned to the Skies – A…

JWT Verification Outside of an ASP.NET Application

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in Software Development Tips & Tricks

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August 4, 2020

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JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) are common in today’s web-based world. The notion of JWTs works really well inside of the SPA to Web API world that many of us are currently developing. In these systems, the JWT is created by the user when the signs into the system. After sign-in, a JWT is created and…

DPL Reading List – July 31, 2020

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July 31, 2020

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Each Friday, we share a curated list of articles we found during the past week. Here’s the list of the new and interesting ones we found this week. If there’s an article you think we should read, let us know in the comments below. There’s a reason your inbox has more malicious spam—Emotet is…

UNL, the City of Lincoln, and Others Team Up to Lead Program to Research Broadband Delivery

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