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How to Install, Setup and Configure MS SQL Server 2017 Express Edition A quick tutorial explaining all the required steps to deploy an instance of MS SQL Server 2017 Express Edition on a Development, Testing or Production machine

August 17, 2018January 7, 2021 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

If you're a .NET developer working with Visual Studio, you'll most likely know SQL Server LocalDB: a specialized edition of the well-known Microsoft SQL Server engine - firstly introduced in …

ASP.NET / C# / Coding / Servers & Services / Web

External Provider Authentication using OAuth2 Implicit and Explicit Flow A quick tutorial explaining the key differences between the two grant types provided by the OAuth2 authorization flow

August 16, 2018January 7, 2021 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

Allowing users to sign in using their existing credentials is often a great way to drive additional traffic to our applications, as demonstrated by a number of case studies by …

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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 …

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Microsoft MVP Award 2018-2019 in Developer Technologies The Microsoft MVP Award Box has arrived today in all its shining beauty: here are some high-resolution pictures of the box contents

August 16, 2018August 16, 2018 - by Dark - Leave a Comment

A couple weeks ago I got the wonderful news that I had been granted the Microsoft MVP Award 2018-2019 in Developer Technologies category: that's an awesome professional achievement that I'm …

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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 …

hMailServer - Mail Server open-source per Windows con gestione POP3, SMTP, IMAP, AntiVirus/AntiSpam e altro

Servers & Services / Web / Windows

hMailServer - Open Source Mail Server for Windows with POP3, SMTP, IMAP, AntiVirus/AntiSpam and more Introducing hMailServer, an Open Source Mail Server for Windows with POP3, SMTP, IMAP, AntiVirus/AntiSpam and more

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

Being able to send and receive e-mail message without relying to external services is often an handy feature of any dedicated server, be it a dedicated/hosted one or a VPS/cloud-based …

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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: …

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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 …

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 …