5 JavaScript Security Best Practices for 2024

Any JavaScript web application needs to have a Content Security Policy (CSP), a browser security standard that dictates what the browser is allowed to load — whether that be a domain, subdomain, or resource. Without a CSP, hackers can exploit cross-site scripting vulnerabilities, potentially resulting in a data breach.

As with every .NET release, Microsoft improves the performance of the runtime and guess what: This release is no exception to this. In this blog post, I want to go through some of the improvements made so far (.NET 8 preview 3). 

This version is the 112th release of Cake, but just not any release - we've finally hit 1.0 🎉 In this blog post, we will go through some of the major new features of 1.0, which platforms are supported, what to consider when upgrading to Cake 1.0. 

REST has brought us into a better position since the days of sharing XML contracts through SOAP. It is a good standard and brought us a long way, but what it makes easy to understand and consume can also be a problem. 

The book covers these all-important topics:

• What Blazor is
• The problems it solves and how it solves them
• Strategies for moving to Blazor from previous ASP.NET generations and JavaScript
• Ways to get more out of Blazor by enhancing it with Telerik UI for Blazor to shorten development cycles and benefit your entire team  

It’s time to get serious about improving your programming skills. Let’s do it!

That’s an easy career improvement goal to give oneself, but “become a kick-$!! programmer” is not a simple goal. For one thing, saying, “I want to get better” assumes that you recognize what “better” looks like. Plus, too many people aim for improvement without any sense of how to get there. 

I think 65535 of generic parameters is fair. It’s way beyond what would person type or use manually. And for generated code, well, I think it’s still plenty and if you need more, I’m sure, given it’s generated code, you can find way around it. 

explore what's new in C# 8, as well as what we can expect in the near (and far) future of C#!
We'll talk about:
- News in C# 8
- Pattern Matching (incl. Record Types)
- Nullable Reference Types and How to Avoid Null Reference Exceptions
- How Async & Await is Improving

This is a guide that everyone can use to learn about the practice of front-end development. It broadly outlines and discusses the practice of front-end engineering: how to learn it and what tools are used when practicing it in 2019. 

SQL Server 2019 preview builds on previous releases to grow SQL Server as a platform that gives you choices of development languages, data types, on-premises or cloud, and operating systems. This article summarizes what is new for SQL Server 2019.