Kendo UI for Angular: Customizing the order of Grouping in the Grid
We recently had a scenario where we wanted our data grouped in a Grid. However, we needed a special order applied to the grouping. Alphabetical did not work for us based on a business requirement. In addition, the dataset we were working with was guaranteed to be limited to less than 30 records so paging…
Keep readingBuilding CI/CD Pipelines with Azure Data Factory: Part 3
In Part 1, I delved into lessons learned, creating the Data Factory Resources and configuring Source Control. Here is a link to Part 1. In Part 2, I covered setting up sample resources, creating your Data Factory Pipeline in a Dev Environment and Publishing it. Here is a link to Part 2. Now it’s time…
Keep readingBuilding CI/CD Pipelines with Azure Data Factory: Part 2
In Part 1, I delved into lessons learned, creating the Data Factory Resources and configuring Source Control. Part 2 covers setting up sample resources, creating your Data Factory Pipeline in a Dev Environment and Publishing it. Our Sample Our Data Factory pipeline is going to be pretty simple. We’re just going to move a file…
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Building CI/CD Pipelines with Azure Data Factory: Part 1
We have been using Azure Data Factory (ADF) at work for a while now. It’s been a great tool for ETL services that can easily scale-out serverless data integration and data transformations. ADF has worked well to transform the data of our new POS into our data warehouse for reporting in Power BI. We have…
Keep readingFiveTran: Square Data Connector
This blog covers our experiences using FiveTran’s Square Data Connector and syncing to an Azure SQL Database. We are currently using Square as our POS (Point of Sale). This POS has been phenomenal when compared to our experience with NCR Aloha. Many, many pluses for using Square over Aloha but that is a different blog…
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2-Step Verification in Square
Most large organizations have an IT Team to implement best practices and policies. But many small business do not. And probably do not know what best practices or policies to follow. Hackers are extremely cleaver. As a small business owner, you really should understand what MFA is. MFA stands for Multi-factor Authentication. This means that…
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Azure DevOps ARM Templates: How to ruin your day!
Love CI/CD in Azure DevOps! But if you make this one innocent mistake while using ARM Templates, you can completely utterly ruin your day. ARM Templates are scoped to a Resource Group. I use ARM Template deployments for deploying Azure Data Factory to QA and Prod When configuring an ARM Template deployment watch out for…
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Azure: Locking Resources
Azure lets you lock your resources so they cannot be deleted without first removing the lock. Only an owner or administrator in your account can use this feature. It overrides a user’s permission so that they cannot accidentally delete or remove a resource. These locks are outside the Role Based Access Controls (RBAC). When the…
Keep readingEnabling SSL in IIS Express
This blog post is intended to help lay the groundwork to eventually setup and configure Mutual Authentication (Two Way TLS/Client Cert). For now, I will demonstrate how to just setup and configure basic SSL in IIS Express. For this exercise, I will be using a self-signed certificate that Visual Studio automatically generates and installs for us.…
Keep readingIonic 2 Issues on Windows 10
The last couple days I have been struggling with installing Ionic 2 on my Windows 10 laptop. Here is my Ionic info: C:\Dev\ionicProjects>ionic info Your system information: Cordova CLI: 6.3.1 Gulp version: CLI version 3.9.0 Gulp local: Ionic CLI Version: 2.1.0 Ionic App Lib Version: 2.1.0-beta.1 OS: Node Version: v6.7.0 Here is the error I…
Keep readingCordova Hook: Internationalizing your App Name for Android
On a recent app I worked on, we needed to internationalize the App Name. Currently, Cordova does not allow you to easily handle this via configuration. One alternative is to open the Android project and modify it to include the internationalization. However, if a developer removes the platform, the process has to be repeated. This…
Keep readingAndroid: What is AAPT?
Android has a ton of tools. This is a quick introduction to a couple commands I use in AAPT. What is AAPT? AAPT (Anroid Asset Packaging Tool) is a great tool to help you view, create and update your APKs (as well as zip and jar files). Where is it? On Windows, check you Android/tools…
Keep readingSecuring your HTML Form in ASP.NET MVC
By now, developers should really understand how to build a form and properly secure it. But this still seems to allude some. It’s rather embarrassing to fail security assessments for certain secuirty flaws that can be easily avoided. In this blog, a refresher on the basics will be covered for securing your post as well…
Keep readingSecurity Assessment 101: Failed because of my cookies???
What really? My security assessment failed because of my cookies. But I only use a couple of cookies to store certain user preferences. Those cookies are there only for user convince. Guess what? That third-party that ran the security assessment doesn’t care. All they care about is that you have cookies and that you are…
Keep readingSecurity Assessment 101: Failed due to Login Enumeration
Wait a second? Really, I can’t tell my user that they locked out the account. Yep!!! For sites containing highly sensitive information like employee information, financial information, etc… you will fail a security assessment because you are telling a hacker the account is locked out. Why is that? The concern is a hacker attempted to…
Keep readingKendoUI: Understanding ToDataSourceResult
Using server filtering is rather easy with Kendo UI MVC, unless your new to it. Then that first couple hours is pretty frustrating untill you find the right article, information and samples. I have very few gripes with Telerik and Kendo UI but they do have a problem with the Kendo UI Demos. They do…
Keep readingKendoUI: Formatting Dates, Numbers, Currency and Custom Formats
Ever need to format text in JavaScript? Ok, dumb question. Everyone has needed that functionality. Well, if you use KendoUI, Telerik provides a pretty awesome framework for this. There is a toString method which is documented here. This method takes three parameters: value –> the Date or Number to be formatted. format –> string to format.…
Keep readingSecurity Assessment 101: Skip HTTP and just use HTTPS
So you built this awesome business web app. You sold it to your customer and it’s now in production. You’re using SSL which is even configured for best practices. See my previous post on securing SSL. But what happens when a user goes to your web application. It probably redirects them to HTTPS so the user…
Keep readingSecurity Assessment 101: What gives? My SSL failed?!?
You delivered your awesome business application and it’s running in production. You are a developer and have some limited System Admin skills so obviously your company decided you were the perfect person to set up your production environments. The data is sensitive so obviously you have SSL turned on. Everyone involved is in ecstatic!!! Then…
Keep readingGetting started with Responsive Web Design for Business Web Applications
Finally getting time to make significant improvements to the UI of my business web applications. One of the top priorities on my projects is UI Transformation using Responsive Web Design (RWD). Should we have done this years ago??? Sure!!!! So much to do so little time… There are many different aspects to tackling UI improvement…
Keep readingQuick Tips – HTML5 FlowChart and Extract CSS
A couple quick tips… HTML5 FlowChart Found this HTML5 Element Flowchart by HTML 5 Doctor and wanted to share the link. I think it’ll come in very handy when making choices with HTML5. This chart has a basic flow chart for determining which HTML5 Element (<nav>, <article>, <section>, <aside>, <section>, <figure>, …) to use and…
Keep readingGetting started with writing secure ASP.NET MVC Code
Over the last few years, I have become very focused on writing secure code. One of the main driving forces for this is the number of security assessments my application has undergone over the last few years as well as the plethora of information now easily accessible. So where does one start with writing secure…
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