Posts by Emily Faithfull
Transform your Power BI Dashboards with Custom Visuals built in React | Prem Radhakrishnan
Quick Question – How many Visualization options come built-in with Power BI? Quick Answer – Not nearly enough. Prem will walk you through the extra visualizations that are in the wonderful awesome Power BI Visuals Marketplace called AppSource. However, no matter how many options you find, there is always a need for that little bit…
Read MoreCracking passwords & why L33t!fied passwords are bad | Alexei Doudkine
Watch this demo of how a hacker who has broken into your machine can quickly and easily get your password hashes, take them offline and crack them to retrieve your original password. In this talk, Alexei discusses how passwords are stored in Windows, some techniques real-world hackers use to crack password hashes and what you…
Read MoreSymmetric encryption, hashing & digital signatures + More – Cryptography 101 | Robert Boedigheimer
Learn the fundamentals of cryptography, including public/private and symmetric encryption, hashing, and digital signatures. Discover which techniques are appropriate for various situations. Review practical real life examples for storing passwords, protecting URL parameters, securely exchanging information with partners, and safely encrypting sensitive information on public web sites. Concepts apply to all platforms, examples will be…
Read MoreNDC Sydney 2020 – Ask Me Anything!
Matt Wicks talks with Yaser about his talk at NDC: Tuning web performance with just browser APIs For more interviews, watch the full video playlist:
Read MoreThe 5 important questions about .NET 5 | Brendan Richards
The 5 important questions about .NET 5 Back in 2016 Microsoft made the brave step of building a brand new .Net Core away from the classic “Full Framework” .NET. This meant they were able to hit the “Redo button” in so many ways, bringing us the modern, open-source, fast and cross-platform framework that we use…
Read MoreAngular – Satisfying your Performance Hungry UI | Gabriel George
Angular is one of the fastest JavaScript UI frameworks, however sometimes when we want to render a large number of components it can still perform poorly. You think to yourself “Am I doing it wrong?” Gabe will show us how to the use built-in functionality of Angular to make rendering snappier.
Read MoreEF Core Query Tags and logging | Jernej “JK” Kavka
.NET Core allows us to log just about everything very easily, but when something goes wrong with SQL queries, how exactly do you figure out where it’s coming from…? This is where EF Core Query Tags comes into play, along with a couple of logging strategies, you’ll never be confused by the intent and location…
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