"We can do that later" - or can we?
"We can do that later" - or can we?

Have you observed how projects will usually have their first wave of personnel exits within the first year. Typically multiple key people will have changed in a 5 year span as well.

What follows is that compromises in sustainability done by a singular person will not be paid by the same person and that makes it easier to make these compromises.

More concretely, you can set traps on every step of the way and you might do it because of a lack of understanding on the difference between large and small scale software development.

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Case Cyberpunk 2077
Case Cyberpunk 2077

Making substandard quality things must end, Cyberpunk 2077 is proof of that.

Cyberpunk 2077 was over-hyped and delivered into the market as a buggy mess. They used crunch to achieve a buggy mess - why was any of that worth it?

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The democratic team
The democratic team

A team should aim for being something people want to engage with. It should give people new opportunities for learning and taking responsibility and, most of all, offer opportunity for both personal and career growth.

It isn’t entirely obvious how a team becomes something that enables this, and in this post we’ll discuss the complex interplay of competence and indispensability as things that, when left unchecked, can hinder some of that opportunity.

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The human element of teamwork
The human element of teamwork

Teamwork is an important element of all software development and conducting yourself within a team is therefore a vital skill to master. At their best, teams make you change and require you to grow. And with all growth comes some pain too. To reduce the pain, I have gathered here some tips and tricks to help you avoid some of the pitfalls of teamwork.

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SSO with Windows Identity Foundation: Part IV - STS
SSO with Windows Identity Foundation: Part IV - STS

Welcome back to keep on building on our understanding of an STS. This part is fully about creating a response message to the message we previously sent from the relying party.

Last time we were able to make our forms authentication application automatically redirect to our STS, and we were able to successfully receive and log the contents of the message that we were getting from our RP.

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SSO with Windows Identity Foundation: Part I - The basics
SSO with Windows Identity Foundation: Part I - The basics

The road to understanding the security and technical details of any security system is a truly perilous one with steep learning curves along the way. Toss in a side dish of single sign on and achieving that securely, and you're in for a ride. What I aim to do here is to challenge myself with a multipart blog post and try to shed some light on Windows Identity Foundation in an understandable way. Here's part one, and an introduction to the basics.

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SecurityLari TuomistoCORS, Cross Domain, .NET, HTTP, SSO, Architecture, Security, Forms Authentication, Windows Identity Foundation kommenttia