My agency recently started working on a website built with React. Like most modern sites built using frameworks such as React or Angular, it leverages a Node-based build system. While we are not responsible for hosting the site, I needed to set up a test site. Most of our test... [Read More]

As a programmer, I take information security seriously because security needs to be baked into the process of developing web applications. For that reason, I try to keep up with recent security news and practices by following security experts such as Troy Hunt, listening to the Security Now podcast, and... [Read More]

Recently, the prominent Umbraco package developer Matt Brailsford tweeted about using Kickstarter for developing an Umbraco package: [Read More]

Minor front-end dev performance tip: when loading external resources from CDNs, try to limit the number of CDNs. For example, instead of loading the following two resources: [Read More]

A couple years ago, I wrote about how to Password Protect Azure Websites with Basic Authentication. As I stated, I typically use basic authentication to password protect development or staging sites to block search engines and others from accessing the non-production sites. My post explained how I used a simple... [Read More]