Developmentor Instructor's Blog Posts

[...] With this post I am introducing the RAW stack. Why the RAW stack? Well it is kind of the equivalent of the MEAN stack. Not that there is anything wrong with the [...]

[...] do is create a really simple app to do something sort of meaningful. So lets do that with the RAW stack.   Just as a reminder the RAW stack is a combination of RavenDB, AngularJS and WebAPI. [...]

Demos and slides for my session on “Securing Web API” are here. Links for topics I mentioned: Thinktecture AuthorizationServer (OAuth2 aut [...]

After many hours of work, I’m happy to say that I’ve released MembershipReboot v5. This release has some main points: Some minor vulnerabi [...]

I’ve been a vocal critic of the Microsoft identity solutions. In their defense this is not a trivial subject, but I feel that they’ve not [...]

I’ve been doing a bit of research into how ASP.NET Identity v2 is implementing its new features, specifically two factor authentication. I was c [...]

[...] with are: Developer written automated unit test, e.g. if you write Java code you write unit tests in Java... or Ruby, or some other computer language The automated unit tests are executed [...]

[...] In the previous post we added unit tests for the AngularJS code running on the client. And while these tests are important there is more [...]

[...] In the previous blog post we added some unit tests that tested the WebAPI and also included the RavenDB storage behind it. As I explained the [...]

[...] , most people feel that all problems in these areas are caused by other people." Allan Kelly after Philip Crosby You see? It fits. Agile isn’t someone else’s thing, it [...]

My recent “#NoProjects - why projects don’t make sense” post stirred up a fair bit of discussion, both on the blog and especially on [...]

In explaining the Agile Demand curve I told a good news story in the previous entry. This time I want to tell a bad news story. This is every classica [...]

In the furious discussion over my “Programmers without TDD will be unemployable” last month a couple of people asked: “How will this [...]

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This post is part 5 of my many-part series entitled Python for .NET Developers. View the entire series here. This video explores P [...]

Do you ever wonder how big .NET and Python communities are? I’m working on an article about Python and .NET and this comparison definately [...]

Here is a quick announcement if you have been downloading or using any of the libraries and sample applications from my blog. The most popular ones ar [...]

[...] … and if you don’t know what I’m talking about, then see this post. With Visual Studio 2013 and .NET 4.5.1 we have a new framework called ASP.NET Identity. ASP.NET Identity is yet [...]

[...] With Visual Studio 2013, Microsoft has provided a new “Change Authentication” wizard that is part of [...]

[...] There have been many changes to how authentication is performed for web applications in Visual Studio 2013. For one, there’s a new “Change Authentication” wizard to configure the [...]

[...] running in OWIN and a ASP.NET project (which you will see with the new templates in Visual Studio 2013). By default, Web API code running in a host will inherit the host’s [...]

[...] fakes or mocks but just to use the in memory variant of RavenDB during testing. However the WebAPI controller used a static RavenConfig.Store property to get to the RavenDB database. And that is the [...]

[...] around interfaces so a dependency can be faked during testing. The MoviesController is the WebAPI controller that publishes our movies. This results in it having a dependency on the RavenDB [...]

[...] embedded document store that saves it's data in the App_Data folder.   Adding the WebAPI controller In order to have an HTTP endpoint to expose data as well as except new data we are going to [...]

In the previous post I created a minimal skeleton app to pass some movie data from RavenDB through a WebAPI endpoint to an AngularJS frontend and also [...]

In the previous post we refactored the JavaScript code for our AngularJS controller a bit to make it more testable. However we didn't actually start w [...]

In the previous post we refactored the JavaScript code for our AngularJS controller a bit to make it more testable. However we didn't actually start w [...]