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JWT Verification Outside of an ASP.NET Application
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…
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DPL Reading List – July 31, 2020
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…
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UNL, the City of Lincoln, and Others Team Up to Lead Program to Research Broadband Delivery
A team, including the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, the City of Lincoln, and other partners (including Don’t Panic Labs), has been selected as a finalist to lead a prestigious National Science Foundation research program that will study new ways to reduce the cost of broadband delivery to rural communities. Read more…
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Using ASP.NET Identity in a Console App? Yes You Can!
Microsoft’s ASP.NET framework provides a really easy way to add authentication to your applications. For a classic web application, you almost don’t have to do anything. Just check a couple of check boxes and you are good to go. But did you know it’s possible to add ASP.NET user authentication to a console application? Luckily…
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DPL Reading List – July 24, 2020
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. Don’t Work on Vacation. Seriously. – How we work has…
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Firebase Emulator!
Having the flexibility to do local development is essential for successful projects. While we have successfully completed projects without a good local development story, I feel we often regret it. Without a good local development story, we often have multiple developers sharing cloud resources. When developers share cloud resources we often end with contention over…
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DPL Reading List – July 17, 2020
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. Hack Brief: Microsoft Warns of a 17-Year-Old ‘Wormable’ Bug –…
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We Are Building on Sand
As a software community, we suffer the fate of a million little cuts. We build systems built on top of other code, layers upon layers upon layers. And, unfortunately, each layer isn’t very solid. This last week while teaching some students, I ran into a seemingly small issue with an Azure Function. Azure Functions are…
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DPL Reading List – July 10, 2020
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’s new Teams features fight video conferencing fatigue – Get…
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How To: Embed Power BI in a Web Application
I was working on a project recently where we needed to embed a Power BI report into a .NET web application. In talking with one of our other engineers, I quickly got the feeling this might be a fairly involved endeavor, and that it would take some trial and error to get everything configured correctly….
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