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DPL Reading List – March 27, 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. Turn Your Hobby into a Startup – Becoming an entrepreneur isn’t…
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SameSite Cookie Settings: A Quick Fix for Broken Cross-Site Cookie Handling
Recently we received reports that an integration into one of our applications was no longer working. This integration used an iframe to display a portion of a website, hosted in Azure running .NET Framework v4.7.2, inside of another company’s website. This process was intended to work with authenticated users. Instead of automatically being logged in…
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Top Ten Things Developers Hate
Developers are creators at heart. They like to create. A big part of the appeal of software development is the quick outputs from your work. You write code one day, and the next day it can be in a customer’s hands. How many other jobs have that quick of turnaround on effort? But many things…
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DPL Reading List – March 20, 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 unveils full Xbox Series X specs with 1TB expansion cards…
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Quick Look – Azurite
Creating a good local development experience allows for developers to run independently, with no shared resources and few online connections. This way, developers can code while having a minimal impact on other developers. Now sometimes, you can’t get away without requiring developers to use the cloud while developing a system. One thing Azure does well…
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DPL Reading List – March 13, 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. Beware of ‘Coronavirus Maps’ – It’s a malware infecting PCs to…
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How to Self-Host a Web API with .NET Framework
Sometimes you just want to host an HTTP endpoint from your existing code. You may have an existing process, but you need some sort of HTTP way to interact with the running process. The advantage of hosting within an existing process isn’t obvious, but it allows us to deploy an HTTP endpoint without having to…
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DPL Reading List – March 6, 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. Intel promises Full Memory Encryption in upcoming CPUs – Intel recently…
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The Case for Strict and Opinionated Style Guides or: The “Because I Said So” Approach
Developers come and go throughout the life of a project, and they all tend to have their own personal coding nuances. With no style guide, no standardization, no rules, no linter, no style cop, etc., the codebase’s style – or lack-there-of – will inevitably become quite messy. Indeed, “messy” is in the eye of the…
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Searching Word and PDF Documents with Elasticsearch and Apache Tika
Having the ability to search through a folder of documents, particularly Microsoft Word and PDF files, can be an excellent feature to build into systems. But how do you go about this? Which technologies can one use to bring this to life without a ton of effort? Based on my experience, leveraging a combination of…
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