This Week Reads

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What’s the Difference Between Width/Height in CSS and Width/Height HTML attributes?

I save you time if you prefer not to read this one. Presentational attributes (HTML attributes) have weaker (or lesser priority) compare to CSS attribute of the same function.

23 lesser known VS Code Shortcuts as GIF

You probably have seen a lot of similar posts, but this explains the shortcut in animated GIF, which is easier to understand!

ES6 vs ES2015 – What to call a JavaScript version?

Confuse with JavaScript version? You’re not alone. This will explain the difference between ES6 and ES2015. Hint: they are the same.

Get Hired: A New Series

This is a series of posts about getting hired, how to prep resume and go to interview. If you are looking for a job, it’s worth the time to invest in the preparation.

How to avoid infinite nesting callbacks

Ever seen (or written) JavaScript function with bunch of nested callbacks? The new `async` `await` will help you avoid that.

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Advanced Features with Azure Service Bus

High level overview of advanced features, from Session & FIFO, Auto Forwarding, Scheduling, Deferred, Duplicate detection to high availability and disaster recovery.

Strangler pattern

If you ask me, I think it’s not much of an architecture pattern, but more of migration strategy. Especially useful to migrate from legacy to modern application. It’s worth the read.

10 Important Git Commands that Every Developer Should Know

If you’re new to Git, this is a good start. The 10 important (and also most commonly used) Git commands. If you’re Git veteran, it’s also a good refresher.

Move petabytes of data with resilience – Azure Data Factory adds resume support!

It’s encouraging to learn how far Azure Data Factory has come. It now has support for resuming the pipeline when it fails. The resume will only run from the point where it failed.

How a Kaggle Grandmaster cheated in $25,000 AI contest with hidden code

Cheater is going to get caught eventually. This is an entertaining story to read about cheating in machine learning competition.

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How to use npx: the npm package runner

There’s so much to say about `npx`, but essentially, it allows you to run package (think of the cli tool that comes with a package) without installing it globally, or without installing the package at all!

Microsoft: We want you to learn Python programming language for free

Learn Python for free! But obviously, you probably already expect this, that it will also promote the usage of Azure.

Google reveals new Python programming language course: Scholarships for 2,500

Well, if Microsoft has free Python course, Google gotta launch its own. Soon, I’m sure Amazon will follow. Google course is not free however, but will give scholarship to 2500 students.

Third-Party Components at Their Best

This post is less of educational, but more of “things you should have”, aka checklist, if you want to use third-party UI components. But, it also applies to non-UI, it applies to any open source really. And you can even use this checklist if you want to start your own open source project.

6 Ways to Unsubscribe from Observables in Angular

Yes, the glorious Observables in Angular. It’s double-edged sword, but it will only hurt you if you forget to unsubscribe. Luckily, there are 6 ways to do it. This post will show you how.

App’s Security Terminologies

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Basic terminologies when dealing with OAuth security in the context of app (web application, api, mobile application, etc).

Authentication
The process of proving you are who you say you are.

Authorization
The act of granting an authenticated party permission to do something. It specifies what data you’re allowed to access and what you can do with that data.

Identity
Refer to users who request access to resources. Users have to proof their identity is who they said they are, usually through authentication process.

Flow (aka. grant type)
Methods through which applications can gain Access Tokens and by which you grant limited access to your resources to another entity without exposing credentials.

Token
A piece of data contain information about users and apps. Common types of tokens:

  1. Id token

    2. A token used to identify user.

  2. Access token

    3. A token used to access some kind of resources, ie: api.

  3. Refresh token

    4. A token used to refresh access token.

Hash
Function that can be used to map data of arbitrary size to fixed-size values. The values returned by a hash function are called hash values, hash codes, digests, or simply hashes.

Encrypt
Convert (information or data) into a cipher or code, especially to prevent unauthorized access. Common methods of encryption:

  1. Asymmetric

    2. A form of encryption where keys come in pairs. Public keys which may be disseminated widely, and private keys which are known only to the owner. Public keys are used to encrypt and private keys are used to decrypt.

  2. Symmetric

    3. A form of encryption which only use one key (as opposed to pair of keys in Asymmetric). The key is used to encrypt and decrypt.

Decrypt
Make a coded or unclear message able to be understood.

Public private key
See asymmetric encryption above.

Federation
The linking a users’ electronic identity and attributes, stored across multiple distinct identity management systems.

References:
Microsoft
Auth0
Wikipedia