Surveying the Web API Security Landscape

Ronnie Mitra published a nice review of the current security protocols & standards available to you to protect your API.

Ronnie gives a good overview of what used to be available, in SOAP WS-*, what is currently available (HTTPS, OAuth and the like) and what is brewing for the future (Oz & Macaroons).

Gamification / Habit-Forming Products

I found this very informative introduction article on how addiction works in products such as Facebook or Candycrush on Wired.

I've been exposed to the concepts in the recent years thanks to a friend of mine who became an expert on gamification. It turns out that the mechanics used to get you hooks on different video...

To GIT or not To GIT

GIT, the one that vanquish them all. Gee… I can't get my head around that product!

I spent an entire 5 months project using it and I still don't get it. True, I used it with the proverbial 10 feet pole, with the minimal subset of features and with no integration into Visual Studio (thanks to a weird Network...

Skype Translator Infographic

Microsoft just published an infographic about how Skype works its automatic speech recognition and translation (also known as Startrek universal translator).

I saw a demo of that technology 2 years ago, having an English and German speakers talking to each other but I didn't think it was that close to productization.

It...

DocumentDB Async Querying & Streaming

UPDATE (31-08-2017):  This article is superseded by the new article Cosmos DB Async Querying & Streaming.

Working with the .NET client SDK of Azure DocumentDB, I couldn’t find a way to query the store asynchronously.

***This post relates to the version 0.9.1-preview of Microsoft Azure DocumentDB Client Library. If you work with another major version, this might not...