...tion. The sections below will deal with patterns for sound practical auth, and how to avoid the most common security pitfalls. To HTTPS or not to HTTPS? Unless the connection is already secure (that is, tunneled through HTTPS using SSL/TLS), your login form values will be sent in cleartext, which al...

I have developed my app and have published it through Google Play for alpha testing. As one of the testers I get an opt-in link, where I signed in as a tester. After that I was hoping to download the app directly with my phone by going to the Play Store on my phone. But as it seems to turn out, I ha...

...g Dispose on that object, or (in C#) using the using statement which will handle calling Dispose for you. If you neglect to Dispose of your unmanaged resources correctly, the garbage collector will eventually handle it for you when the object containing that resource is garbage collected (this is "...

...tly for logging, but that is highly discouraged. All logback documentation and examples on loggers are written in terms of the SLF4J API. So by using logback, you'd be actually using SLF4J and if for any reason you wanted to switch back to log4j, you could do so within minutes by simply dropping s...

... I can tell, web workers need to be written in a separate JavaScript file, and called like this: 25 Answers ...

I know how to provide a username and password to an HTTPS request like this: 10 Answers ...

...y the specification also applies. So here they are: 2.1.4 Primary Keys and Entity Identity ... A composite primary key must correspond to either a single persistent field or property or to a set of such fields or properties as described below. A primary key class must be defi...

...ion 32: invalid continuation byte. I used python 3.6.5 to install aws cli. And when I tried aws --version it failed with this error. So I had to edit /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/configparser.py and changed the code to the following def read(self, filenames, encodi...

...tring. Otherwise, the docstring will not be recognized by the interpreter, and you will not have access to it in interactive sessions (i.e. through obj.__doc__) or when generating documentation with automated tools. Import built-in modules first, followed by third-party modules, followed by any chan...

...) in VS2010 with the Async CTP. I have recent blog posts about async/await and asynchronous console programs in particular. Here's some background info from the intro post: If "await" sees that the awaitable has not completed, then it acts asynchronously. It tells the awaitable to run the remainder...