Archive for the ‘General’ Category

3 Simple Ways to Secure Your Websites/Applications

It is hard to write 100% holes-free code, no matter how hard you tried. Sometimes it is not even your own fault (language implementation, server setups, etc.) and those factor are likely out of your control. That being said, as developers, we should strive to write our code as safe and secure as possible. Here are my suggestions to keep yourself from being woken up in the middle of the night:

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Failover Systems and LoginRadius’ 99.99% Uptime

Do you remember the Amazon outage that affected several high-profile customers back in 2011? On April 21st, widely-used sites such as Reddit and Quora were brought down, and many others experienced latency or were knocked offline, too. Early that morning…

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A Bot Protection Overview

Bots are tools that are created to automate tedious processes and reduce work. For example, chatbots automate replies to users for customer support, and search bots are used to populate search results on a Google search. However…

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Let’s Encrypt with SSL Certificates

What is an SSL Certificate?

Let’s start with some working definitions of the HTTP and HTTPS protocols. HTTP is the Internet protocol over which data is sent between a browser and a server when they are communicating. HTTPS is the secure counterpart of HTTP…

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Understanding JSONP

Nowadays, many API providers support JSONP requests. One reason for this is that most web browsers disable cross-domain requests when using basic Ajax.

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Using NuGet to publish .NET packages

NuGet is a free and open-source package manager for the .NET ecosystem. We can create and install packages using NuGet client tools. All of the .NET packages are hosted for publishing and consumption on a central package repository known as NuGet Gallery.

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How to use Maven Dependency in Eclipse

Maven

Maven is a project build management software, it means it lets you define your project dependencies, features, and behaviors. To do this, Maven downloads plugins and dependencies for various online repositories. People who want to share their libraries, develop using Maven and upload the binaries in a repository. In this article, we’ll discuss how to configure and use Maven dependency.

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