CategorySecurity

June 27, 2018 — When sending transactional emails, you may be missing out on some of the more advanced best practices without even knowing it. This guide will help you make sure that you haven’t overlooked anything. Read more…

June 21, 2018 — Last year, WordPress was responsible for 83% of infected content management sites. Make sure you’re not contributing to those infections and learn how to securely manage WordPress. Read more…

May 30, 2018 — Without the right framework and tools, the debugging process can be a nightmare. In this article, Akhil Labudubariki walks through a number of steps and considerations his team made when developing their own in-house Central Logging Service (CLS) tool. Read more…

February 27, 2018 — GDPR requires you to be more thoughtful about the sites and services you build, more transparent about the ways you collect and use data, more considerate of your users, and more thorough in your development and documentation processes. Read more…

January 25, 2018 — Before deploying a new plugin in WordPress, it’s a good idea to keep a list of easy-to-misuse functions by your side. Let’s take a closer look at some functions which you can and should use as part of a broader security strategy. Read more…

November 9, 2017 — When a user of your application has forgotten their password, it can and should be reset securely. To accomplish a secure password reset, I will demonstrate how to use JSON Web Tokens (JWT) to generate a URL-safe token. The JWT contains encoded information about the user and a signature that, when decoded, is validated to ensure that the token has not been tampered with. Read more…

October 26, 2017 — When it comes to building and maintaining a website, one has to take a ton of things into consideration. All webmasters should strive for a) improving the performance of their website, and b) increasing their website’s security. Read more…

September 21, 2017 — If you regularly create new web or mobile applications, then Amazon Cognito is a powerful tool that can cut 90% of the time it usually takes to set up a custom user-management solution. Read more…

August 17, 2017 — Developers and organizations alike are looking for a way to have more agility with mobile solutions. There is a desire to decrease the time from idea to test. As a developer, I often run up against one hurdle that can slow down the initial build of a mobile hypothesis: user management. Read more…

August 2, 2017 — In its move to patch a security hole as part of the iOS 10.3 release, Apple has introduced (yet) another redirection mechanism that developers must handle when attempting to implement mobile deep-link routing (i.e. the mechanism to route users to a specific page inside a mobile app, rather than the App Store or app home page). This redirection instance has introduced additional friction to the app download and reopening process, and data shows that it has decreased conversion rates on iOS 10.3. This post examines the issue in detail and discusses solutions to help developers fix it. Read more…