Writings

I was asked a question recently, on how you would solve signing an XML file in an Azure Web App, over Twitter: https://twitter.com/itproDHO/status/635475665760985090 The answer, as it turns out, is farily simple. It just involves a couple steps, so I wanted to write it down

In a recent post on Medium [https://medium.com/@avodovnik/am-i-a-bad-developer-940efe993ad7], I wrote: "Every production project needs a way to track bugs. Most will be able to then track the problems down to a specific area, and the most advanced teams will be able to figure out if a

Let’s face the facts: not all developers are good. In fact, it is probably safe to assume that most developers are not good. Most of us are…

Recently, I was architecting a multi-tenant solution. The solution enables each tenant to have multiple devices connected. The devices are then able to communicate with the server component, but also, the server component needs to be able to communicate with each of the devices. To do that, we also needed

Lessons I learnt about agile projects…

In my previous post, I showed a basic example of how to use the OWIN Identity provider to configure our application to use a WS-Federation Identity Service. However, that particular way of doing it has one big drawback (well, depending on how you look at it): because you specify the

We are using OWIN to configure our WS-Federation, and our identity server requires sending certain parameters with the Sign In Request Message. In the old days that meant adding a well-known method to the Global.asax file. Using Owin, this has to be done slightly differently. The important part for

Deciding to go with a tool like VSO, for a company, is not easy. There are several alternatives, including free ones, that give you just as much, maybe even more - in terms of pricing and/or flexibility. So, in order to get our team to use it (or not)