I fix the servers that run your serverless applications.
OAuth2 is fundamentally an authorization protocol. It is not meant to be used for authentication. In general, OAuth2 based authorization services provide an end point that can be used to retrieve user profiles and identifiers. In some cases, they use...
Read More...Let’s continue using the analogies used in my last post and explore the JSON Web Tokens (JWT).
You hand over both your boarding pass and an identity document. The agent scans the boarding pass and examines the identity document to check it’s authenticity...
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Authentication and authorization are two concepts that are often mingled together. In a lot of Rails app, there is little thought given to it beyond adding devise to an app and running the generator to build the User model. In Spring based app, including...
The client that I am working with runs a web store and needed some changes made to the Spree/Paypal Express Checkout gateway to support receiving addresses from Paypal. This involves a fair amount of coordination between Paypal and Spree. It’s also...
Read More...You can certainly use your AWS root account’s keys to sync content up to your S3 backed website. It will work just fine and it may be enough in cases where you are a really small organization. It does however cause issues when the credentials need to...
Read More...Sometimes you just need to make a small change. What can go wrong right? Well…
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Read More...It took a few months, but I finally received the Dell Precision M3800 that I ordered as a work laptop. It was certainly worth the wait though. It is fast and sleek and is turning out to be a great alternative to the current batch of Macbook Pros.
My...
Read More...A developer pulls a copy of the staging database and runs a migration to make sure that it will work against the existing data and structure.
A developer writes specs around a new feature that he is building.
Both acts imply testing. One is explicit...
Read More...It’s not a surprise that governments in general want to monitor what happens on the Internet. I always took the stance that anything that goes over unproctected and unencrypted channel was basically public. Private things need to be encrypted. This is...
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- Idempotent
- An idempotent operation is one where the result of the operation is the same when it is repeated with the same input parameter.
One of the design goals of my middleman-s3_gem gem is to only push content that has been updated to an S3...
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Frederic Jean