Thoughts from a solution architect, technologist and Christian citizen.
Hi Community, I don’t consider myself a security specialist (or specialist at anything for that matter but a generalist instead). I am currently architecting a Web solution for one of my clients, and they came to me with a requirement “review, assess and rectify security vulnerabilities” on an existing Web application. it’s not what I […]
Continue ReadingHi Community, Today’s post is about a common issue faced by many Web developers when they build an MVC Web application that uses ADFS as its authentication mechanism. The problem lies that sessions might be abandoned by IIS when their time is up, but the MVC application might not even be aware of this fact, […]
Continue ReadingHi community, it has been a very busy start of the year for me, but here I am as usual sharing with you information that you might find useful. Today’s post is about the internals of a couple new features available in C# 6. The new version of the language introduces the following features and […]
Continue ReadingNDepend 6.0 was released a few months ago, and due to my workload I have been unable to blog about it until now. This version contains a ton of new features. I have been working with this product since 2009, I think (Sorry but I cannot remember the version back then) and I must say […]
Continue ReadingHi community, It gives me a great joy to announce that Microsoft has awarded me with an MVP recognition once again, in this opportunity in the “Visual Studio and Development Technologies” category . Since the MVP Program has been around for more than two decades, Microsoft have recently made changes to it, therefore, I can contribute to anything that’s […]
Continue ReadingHi Community, I’ve just come back to the office after rolling off from an engagement, so this week while being back to the bench I’ve been practicing and studying some Qt for my upcoming certification, doing a few things around Raspberry Pi + Kinect + OpenKinect on Raspbian but at the same time I also […]
Continue ReadingHi Community, Windows 10 and Visual Studio 2015 were successfully launched a few days ago, and with them a bunch of new features were introduced, being Universal Windows Apps one of the most exciting and expected features; so what I’ve done is to compile a table that contains links to useful resources and even offers […]
Continue ReadingFileSystems are the storage backbone for any computer system, in Today’s operating systems most of them provide a common functionality set like journaling, security and metadata among others. In my humble opinion, metadata is one of the most important ones, reason being is that they can tell users about the contents of the file without […]
Continue ReadingAs a software developer and architect, I’m always looking at options for my customers whether they’re around technologies, tools, hosting, security and tenancy model (being the last three mandatory in a “cloudy” world) among some other factors and considerations. To me crafting software it’s more than cracking code and ensure it compiles, it’s more about […]
Continue ReadingInstrumentation is an important and integral part of every system because it allows (among some other things) to monitor the health of the system and/or components of it. On a recent engagement, I had to architect a SharePoint solution that integrates with a core LOB system. The SharePoint solution comprises a few workflows that in […]
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