Rob Janssen (RobIII)

Don’t Do Role-Based Authorization Checks; Do Activity-Based Checks

I’ve built a few dozen security mechanisms in my career. Unfortunately, I kept getting it wrong, hence the need to keep building them. Over the years, though, I learned a number of different ways that a security system can be built.

You Are Not Your Code

Developers working together to build shared infrastructure: it’s the fundamental tenet of open-source software.

KLM Happy Holidays flight

KLM stewardess Natalie surprised some travellers at Amsterdam Airport with a Christmas present. The lucky passengers were treated to a Business Class upgrade...

MVVM Compared To MVC and MVP

At the recent Calgary Tech Days event I did a presentation on building composite applications with WPF and Silverlight.

A good way to keep your entities clean

This tutorial will show you how to keep your entities and your views clean by translating entities to viewmodels. It is a good practice to do this because it keeps your files clean, it avoids certain security problems and it's more flexible, as you will read in this article.

Mass Assignment Vulnerability in ASP.NET MVC

By now you may have seen what happened to github last night. In case you didn’t, let me bring you up to speed. In a Ruby on Rails application, you can make a call to update your model directly from request parameters.

Microsoft blikt terug op 2012

2012 was voor Microsoft een jaar met veel hoogtepunten. De grootste en meest gedenkwaardige mijlpalen zijn te zien in deze video van Microsoft.

Performance Considerations (Entity Framework)

This topic describes performance characteristics of the ADO.NET Entity Framework and provides some considerations to help improve the performance of Entity Framework applications.

Service Trace Viewer Tool (SvcTraceViewer.exe)

Diagnostic traces provide you with information that shows what is happening throughout your application's operation. As the name implies, you can follow operations from their source to destination and through intermediate points as well.

Configuration Editor Tool (SvcConfigEditor.exe)

Service Configuration Editor comes with a wizard that guides you through all the steps in configuring a WCF service or client. You are strongly advised to use the wizard instead of the editor directly. If you already have some configuration files that comply with the standard System.