Hey friends! Microsoft BUILD 2021 is upon us. You can register for BUILD 2021 FREE here and join us online! I'm going to be giving the Developer Keynote on Day 2 in this segment (around 9am PST) and I can guarantee you've never seen anything like it. Here's a sneak peak of the FIRST 60 SECONDS of the Day 2 Developer Keynote! ACTION: Register free for BUILD 2021 here! Why register? You don't have to, you can just visit the site and watch the stream if you like, but if you register you can ask questions LIVE and interact LIVE with the team! Also, be sure to sign up Microsoft Build Cloud Skills Challenge! You complete modules in Microsoft Learn, learn some cool stuff AND (believe it or not) you can win a meeting with me! How weird is that? Someone thought I'd be a prize to someone. My wife is unimpressed. Regardless, you can win meetings - consultations if you're fancy - with me and other Microsoft Engineers, so sign up today! Here's my personal schedule for the America's Timezones and if you're on the other side of the planet, here is a BUILD schedule optimized for YOUR Timezones! See you soon! I miss y'all and I hope you and your families are safe and OK. Sponsor: Extend your runway and expand your reach. Oracle for Startups delivers enterprise cloud at a startup price tag with free cloud credits to help you reel in the big fish--confidently. Learn more.(C) 2021 Scott Hanselman. All rights reserved.     

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Current and aspiring web professionals must continually grow in order to stay relevant. Our field doesn't allow for stagnation. In part one of this series, I discussed the importance of project retrospectives in facilitating and documenting team growth. We don't always have the luxury of engaging in team retrospectives, or even of working on teams. Personal reflection provides similar benefits, while focusing on your individual experiences. Personal reflection enables us to process and make meaning of all of the great (and not so great) learning and working experiences we've had.

Hackers are always looking for new ways to compromise applications. As languages, tools and architectures evolve, so do application exploits. And the latest target is developers. Traditionally, software supply chain exploits, such as the Struts incident at Equifax, depended on an organization’s failure to patch a known vulnerability. More recently, supply chain attacks have taken … continue reading The post How hackers poison your code appeared first on SD Times.

Introduction In the previous post on the topic of Token Based Security, we created an API endpoint and protected it (using Authorize attribute) with IdentityServer. Then, we set up a simple Angular application with an AuthService to use oidc-client library. We also created few angular components at the end of the previous post, as well as two buttons for login/logout purposes in appComponent, then wired the following method with click events: Today, we will continue from the previous post and complete the login/logout process. We will see how the OIDC client library makes it very easy to implement the complex redirect flows out of the box.

In this new post to his site Sameer Borate looks at using the TOML configuration file format in a PHP application. As any one who has programmed knows about configuration files. Configuration files are mostly text files used to configure the parameters and initial settings for computer programs - mostly user applications, operating system settings. [...] In this post we will look into parsing TOML files in PHP. TOML is a configuration file format that is intended to be easy to read due to its obvious semantics and is designed to map unambiguously to a dictionary data structure. "TOML", the name, is an acronym for "Tom's Obvious, Minimal Language" referring to its creator Tom Preston-Werner. He starts with an example of a configuration file in the TOML format and, following the installation/used of the yosymfony/toml library, the result of it being parsed. He also includes an example of using the same library to build out a TOML configuration and dump it to a string for output.

Mobile apps have changed our world-- from how we pay bills to how we date or order food, to even the ways we play games. They've opened up seemingly limitless possibilities, thanks to the talent of the developer community. Building the next killer app requires the creation of features that attract and delight while still … continue reading The post Balancing user experience and performance appeared first on SD Times.

The kinds of tutorials I love creating are those that produce a really cool result from quite a simple tool or technique. The artwork I’ll be showing you how to create today fits right into that category. It makes use of Photoshop’s Liquify tool, along with a few additional edits to create the kind of […] The post Video Tutorial: Abstract Album Cover Art in Photoshop appeared first on Spoon Graphics.

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In MySQL Server 8.0.23 an improvement was made to InnoDB that allows truncation and deletion of all tablespaces to be faster. In fact, making it almost instantaneous as long as AHI is disabled. This is done by allowing pages in the buffer pool to be freed lazily instead of immediately when a tablespace is deleted.…