Healthcare Application Development: Is Your App Subject to HIPAA?
The healthcare application market is one of the most rapidly growing sectors, expected to be a $60 billion market by 2020. For developers in this surging healthcare application development space,...
View ArticleOZorkAuth – Learn OAuth2 + Spring Boot The Fun Way!
On a recent vacation, I did a personal hackathon with the goal of demystifying OAuth2 in a fun way. (My boss called this a vacation fail, but in between visiting dormant volcanoes and whale watching,...
View ArticleTutorial: Build a REST API for Your Mobile Apps using Node.js
Behind every great mobile app is a great backend, but building an API for your app can be a bit daunting if you haven’t done so before. Fear not! This tutorial will show you how to build your first...
View ArticleToken Authentication: The Secret to Scalable User Management
At Stormpath, we’re in the business of authentication and authorization, which means we have lots of conversations with developers about user management, sessions, and scalability in web and mobile...
View ArticleWhat’s New in Entity Framework Core 1.0?
As part of Microsoft’s effort to modernize and make the .NET framework multi-platform, modular and open-source, a new lightweight and extensible version of Entity Framework, Entity Framework Core 1.0,...
View ArticleTutorial: Get Started with Xamarin in Visual Studio
Xamarin is a cross-platform technology that makes it possible to build native mobile apps for Android, iOS, and Windows Phone using C# and a shared codebase. Like its younger siblings NativeScript and...
View ArticleWatch: Token Authentication with ASP.NET Core
Token authentication is a critical element of building scalable identity, authentication, and authorization management. The token-based approach is stateless, secure, mobile-ready, and designed to...
View ArticleAnnouncing Stormpath’s Java SDK 1.0 Release
Big, big news, people: The Stormpath Java SDK has left release candidates behind and is now at 1.0! The goal for any Stormpath SDK has always been to make it super easy for developers to work with...
View ArticleDesigning the Stormpath SDK for Asynchrony in .NET
We designed the Stormpath .NET SDK with asynchrony in mind. Since the goal of the SDK is to make network calls to the Stormpath API, it’s a great fit for the Task-based asynchrony pattern introduced in...
View ArticleTutorial: Build a Spring WebMVC App with Primefaces
Primefaces is a JavaServer Faces (JSF) component suite. It extends JSF’s capabilities with rich components, skinning framework, a handy theme collection, built-in Ajax, mobile support, push support,...
View ArticleTutorial: Setting Up An Awesome Git/CLI Environment on Windows
CLIs, or Command Line Interfaces, are extremely powerful when it comes to accessing the basic functions of your computer. In fact, there are some things you can only do from the command line, even on...
View ArticleSecure Your Spring Boot WebApp with Apache and LetsEncrypt SSL in 20 Minutes
Spring Boot can run as a standalone server, but putting it behind an Apache web server has several advantages, such as load balancing and cluster management. Now with LetsEncrypt it’s easier than ever...
View ArticleAuthentication with Salesforce, SAML, & Stormpath in 15 Minutes
Salesforce is a popular business software platform with many functions and features – not just a CRM For B2B applications. Allowing users to log in with their Salesforce credentials is necessary...
View ArticleSpring Boot WebMVC – Spring Boot Technical Concepts Series, Part 3
Spring Boot, with Spring Boot WebMVC, make it easy to create MVC apps with very clear delineations and interactions. The Model represents formal underlying data constructs that the View uses to present...
View ArticleStormpath and Nginx – OAuth 2.0 at the Gateway
At Stormpath, we care – a lot – about the craft of API development. We want to help developers focus on building robust, intuitive and scalable APIs, and let go of the worry and hassle of...
View ArticleTutorial: Launch Your ASP.NET Core WebApp on Azure with TLS & Authentication
The use of TLS (HTTPS) to encrypt communication between the browser and the server has become an accepted best practice in the software industry. In the past, it was difficult and expensive to maintain...
View ArticleSecurely Storing Files with Node, S3, and Stormpath
There are a lot of redundant problems you need to solve as a web developer. Dealing with users is a common problem: storing them, authenticating them, and properly securing their data. This particular...
View ArticleApache Shiro Stormpath Integration 0.7.1 Released
Welcome to the new Apache Shiro Stormpath integration! This new release features a servlet plugin, plus deeper support for Spring and Spring Boot. Until now, we have only had a basic Apache Shiro realm...
View ArticleHow to Gracefully Store User Files
When you build a web application, one thing you may need to think about is how you plan to store user files. If you’re building an application that requires users to upload or download files (images,...
View ArticleIdentity Management in Spring Boot with Twilio and Stormpath in 15 Minutes
Today, in less than 30 seconds or so, I was able to set up a Twilio account and send myself a text message using httpie. Another few minutes work (fewer than 5) and I had a Spring Boot application...
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