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Background Using JWT bearer token authentication for your ASP.NET Core API projects is pretty standard stuff these days, and I've done it many times - mostly with tokens from Duende IdentityServer. When I tried to update the code and configuration to use Auth0 though, I kept getting a 401 response after authenticating …
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Background In 2015 (6 years ago now!), I created my blog on GoDaddy using their "Managed WordPress" service. I also created a domain with them and added an SSL certificate. I'm a developer/architect and don't do anything with WordPress during my day job. I write a lot of markdown docs for README files and …
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Creating a short video that addresses a single topic can be a very useful skill to have. I learned it (and still have more to learn) from both working on Pluralsight courses and creating short videos to help my teammates at RealPage. Beyond that, the following process can be applied to larger topics to create full …
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I’ve been doing more and more with Kubernetes lately, and came across an example by Brad Wilson that showed the Kubernetes context in the prompt and thought it would be really awesome if I could add that to mine. I was generally happy with the PowerLevel10K-Classic theme, but wondered about applying a tweak that could …
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tl;dr: Just show me the code: https://github.com/dahlsailrunner/secure-authentication-is4 I just published a course regarding secure authentication in ASP.NET websites, and the course and its code repo focused exclusively on ASP.NET Identity (in both Core and Framework projects). An early question came up regarding how …
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I’m a coder / architect. In other words, NOT an audio guy. A couple of years ago I started creating video training courses for Pluralsight, and the video and recording/editing aspects of doing this were definitely the most challenging things for me. Recording and editing is just something that takes practice, but I …
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I’ve been preparing for a talk at Twin Cities Code Camp 2020 which will compare and contrast the more common and traditional OpenAPI or Swagger APIs (sometimes called REST APIs in a generally-accepted loose interpretation of the term) and the newer kids on the block: GraphQL and gRPC. Most of us are probably familiar …
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