Passive Security Tip: HttpOnly Cookies
During a Cross-site Scripting attack an attacker might easily access cookies and hijack the victim’s session. Example User opens an email with a newsletter. The code of the image below quickly executes...
View ArticlePassive Security Tip: Error HTTP 403
Usually the error HTTP 403 is triggered when the directory browsing is disabled in IIS and the user tries to access a specific directory with forbidden access from the website structure. An attacker...
View ArticlePassive Security Tip: Deny Unused file extensions in an ASP.NET website
There are cases when for example due to poor form validation, an attacker can upload a .bat file instead of a picture on a form and after that can execute the malicious .bat file via URL. Remedy...
View ArticleFor Developers: Please take a look at Selenium!
What is Selenium? Briefly, Selenium is a Firefox plugin that allows you to do web automation testing. It is capable of recording, editing and debugging tests. It is also platform independent so you can...
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Front-End Performance Tips for ASP.NET Websites – Introduction
The performance of a website is definitely one of the most important factors that affects its user experience. Not only that, but the performance can also affect sales and search engines ranking....
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Front-End Performance Tips for ASP.NET Websites – Add Response Headers
There are quite few methods to do this. You can set the Expire Headers directly from IIS, you can write a custom HttpHandler or if you don’t want custom functionality you can set them from Web.config...
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Front-End Performance Tips for ASP.NET Websites – Using Telerik to Speed Up...
Large ASP.NET pages have big ViewState size. I think this is one of the biggest downsizes that ASP.NET Webforms has because, if you have a big number of web controls in your page, the page size will...
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Front-End Performance Tips for ASP.NET Websites – Minimize HTTP Requests
According to Yahoo Developer website: 80% of the end-user response time is spent on the front-end. Most of this time is tied up in downloading all the components in the page: images, stylesheets,...
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N-Tier Architecture. ASP.NET Example
Introduction N-tier architecture is probably one of the most used architecture models in the industry. It is used so often because it’s scalable, extensible, secure and maintainable over time. It also...
View ArticleResources to learn ASP.NET WebForms, ADO.NET, HTML, CSS and SQL
The main purpose of this resource list is to give you a head start in developing ASP.NET applications. As you may know, developing ASP.NET application involves a strict set of technologies that is...
View ArticleAbout the Discovery/Planning phase of an IT project. What to look after.
If you recently signed a project or you are preparing a request for proposal document, I would say a discovery phase it’s mandatory for any project. If it’s not done properly or not considered at all,...
View Article5 Most Common problems with IT Projects
There are so many things that can go wrong with a project that are almost impossible to foresee, but there are some common patterns around every project and it’s mandatory to have them in sight. These...
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Ready your Sitecore instance for Web Mastering team
Let’s assume that all the development for your new Sitecore project is complete. The next step now is to fill the website with content and prepare it for going live. The customer notified you that they...
View ArticleFast SQL Server Stored Procedure with Filtering, Sorting and Paging
Even though there are dozens of articles out there which shows you how to do a Microsoft SQL Server stored procedure with filtering, sorting and paging, the execution time greatly differs between each...
View ArticleFor Developers: Please take a look at Selenium!
What is Selenium? Briefly, Selenium is a Firefox plugin that allows you to do web automation testing. It is capable of recording, editing and debugging tests. It is also platform independent so you can...
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