The code base I am working on contains a huge if block. By huge I mean 77 if statements one after the other, each if checks to see what page id you are on and loads different content. This is not easy to maintain and I want to refactor it. One option would be to replace the if statements with a switch block. However...
One of the websites I have been working on has been displaying an error in the console. The error reads as follows. The SSL certificate used to load resources from https://example.com will be distrusted in M70. Once distrusted, users will be prevented from loading these resources. See...
A content Security Policy or CSP is a HTTP response header that defines what sources of content can be loaded on a web page. It is a way to combat Cross Site Scripting (XSS) attacks. What is a XSS attack then? When you load a webpage it also loads various other resources like images, some css style sheets, various...
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I have blogged a few times about interfaces , and how useful they are for producing good quality maintainable code. Let’s look at a problem and the solution I came up with which I am quite proud of. As previously mentioned I am in the process of moving images from AWS to Azure blob storage. Now that the actual files...
We are in the process of moving our companies websites onto the Azure platform. One of the challenges was to move image files out of the website project into blob storage. This week I have moved 150,000 of them. One thing I keep banging on about is that your source code should not contain data. If it does every time...
It is 2018 so it must be time to think about what my plans and goals are for the new year. Buy a house This a huge goal for me. For many years I was content with renting and thought owning my own home wasn’t for me, but then I went and started a family and my career started going in the right direction and my thoughts...