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User Authentication and Authorization in modern Web Development A list of the most common techniques, patterns and strategies to securely implement a Register, Login and/or AUTH mechanism in a website or service

August 16, 2018November 5, 2018 - by Ryan - 4 Comments.

Generally speaking, the term authentication refers to any process of verification that someone, be it a human being or an automated system, is who (or what) it claims to be. This is also …

Coding / HTML & CSS / JavaScript / Web

Forms in Angular - Template-Driven vs Model-Driven or Reactive Forms The pros and cons of the two alternative approaches provided by Angular to deal with Forms and Data Validation: Template-Driven Forms and Model-Driven (or Reactive) Forms

August 16, 2018August 18, 2018 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

As we most certainly know, HTML forms are one of the most important and delicate aspects of any business application. Nowadays, forms are used to fulfill almost any task involving …

ASP.NET / C# / Coding / Operating Systems / Servers & Services / Tools & Utilities / Windows

Windows Server - How to Send SMTP Auth E-Mail with PowerShell Using the System.Net.Mail.MailMessage and Net.Mail.SmtpClient .NET Framework objects with PowerShell to send authenticated e-mail messages through a secure SMTP server

August 15, 2018January 7, 2021 - by Ryan - 1 Comment

A couple of years ago I published an article explaining how to send notification E-Mail messages with PowerShell. I wrote that post to demonstrate how a simple notification script could …

Servers & Services / Web / Windows

Send E-Mail messages with PHP using Authenticated SMTP A brief tutorial explaining how to send e-mail messages with PHP using authenticated SMTP: PHPMailer, SendMail, Fake SendMail and other methods

August 15, 2018May 16, 2019 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

The ability to programmatically send e-mail messages with PHP is a feature used by a large amount of opensource software written using the most famous scripting language on the web: …

ASP.NET / C# / Coding / Other stuff / Servers & Services / SQL / Web / Windows

Microsoft MVP: Everything You Need to Know A list of (great) things you can actually do since the day you get the Microsoft MVP award e-mail

August 15, 2018January 7, 2021 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

If you've stumbled upon this post, it probably means that your mailbox has been recently visited by an e-mail from Microsoft congratulating you for being awarded as a Microsoft® Most Valuable …

ASP.NET / C# / Coding / Web

ASP.NET MVC - Controller Subfolder Routing using Attribute Routes How to create a Route to a Controller that is inside a Subfolder in a ASP.NET MVC Application Project using the MVC 5 Attribute Routing Feature

August 13, 2018January 7, 2021 - by Ryan - 2 Comments.

As you might already know if you're using ASP.NET MVC, routing is how ASP.NET MVC matches a URI to an Action within a Controller. In the unlikely case you don't know …

Coding / Linux / Servers & Services / SQL

How to safely upgrade from MariaDB 10.x to 10.3 without losing data A quick tutorial explaining how to perform a seamless upgrade from a previous version of MariaDB 10 to MariaDB 10.3 keeping all the existing databases intact

August 13, 2018March 26, 2019 - by Ryan - 6 Comments.

It has been a while since MariaDB 10.3 has been out, bringing its stunning pack of changes, improvements and new features - most notably, System-versioned tables and Sequences. If you found this …

Coding / Servers & Services / SQL

Backup MySQL or MariaDB Server with a single Command-Line using mysqldump How to perform a full backup of a MySQL or MariaDB Server instance on a Windows or Linux machine with single command-line

August 12, 2018November 21, 2021 - by Ryan - 1 Comment

If you like playing with MySQL or MariaDB servers, you most likely know that both of these great open-source DBMS come with mysqldump, a neat command-line utility that can be used to …

Coding / PHP / Servers & Services / Web

WordPress - Error establishing a database connection repeatedly and intermittently (MySQL / MariaDB) - Fix What to do if you're randomly and repeatedly getting the "Error establishing a database connection" with your WordPress installation using MySQL or MariaDB

August 12, 2018August 12, 2018 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

The "Error establishing a database connection" WordPress error is a rather common one. You can either get it upon each request, meaning that you WordPress site is entirely down, or intermittently (randomly …

Coding / Linux / Operating Systems

CentOS / Linux - make: g++: Command not found - How to fix How to fix this common Linux terminal error by installing GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection

August 12, 2018 - by Ryan - 1 Comment

If you've stumbled upon this post it probably means that you were trying to compile a C++ program using the linux make terminal command and ran into the following error: > make: …