In the era of mobility and interconnected smart devices, there are cases when the access to information should be restricted for non-authenticated entities. The aim of this article is to provide high-level details about ways of authentication and authorization for software developers that are using ASP.NET platform, especially ASP.NET MVC. In the following lines, I will talk about the ASP.NET Identity infrastructure. I will walk you through the main features of the framework, and show you how this system may be customized in order to serve different scenarios. 

At the moment of writing this article - 2015 August - Romania has been classified in many pools as a notable presence in the global IT&C market. It has a strategic geographical location, knowledgeable work force with academic support and is commonly multilingual capable. This country has had the chance to be involved in software projects for almost 20 year now, thus accumulating a vast experience in outsourcing, high-end services and even products. The question is - who’s managing all this?

GPEC official data says that 1 in 4 Internet users is an online shopper and in 2014 these bought products and services worth 1.1 € billion (40% growth compared to 2013). Therefore, the online shopping market in Romania is very big and continually growing. In this context, affiliate marketing has started to evolve as well. In the last few years, this concept has gained momentum and has proven to be a considerable source of revenue for all parties involved: affiliates, merchants and affiliate platforms.

I remember about two years ago one of our clients saying that as it was the main requirement for a new software application. Those words haunted me for a while, I could not understood why he would phrase it like that. An application crash was bad enough but loosing data was out of this world; I was trying to visualize the kind of complexity that made them ask for this particular requirement. 

When it comes to our health and well-being, we call in a specialist. And we usually want the best one around, whose advice and treatment we’re careful to follow. We don’t trust what we read over the internet, or tell the doctor how to operate, right? In the end, it comes down to protecting our health. But do we do the same when our company is concerned? 

Given that this year the main focus of tax authorities with control attributions has been the identification of additional salary-related or similar income, we considered as appropriate to review the main expenditures of companies, apparently in the direct benefit of employees, which may be reinterpreted as a benefit in kind and thus are liable to taxation accordingly.

In ACADEMY+PLUS, one can get after passing an online test and going through a difficult selection – the 28 days Pool. The first academic year started in November 2014 and the first generation is now in the compulsory stage of internship. The flexibility of the program means also the fact that this stage can be done anytime, according to the results obtained in the academy projects. Thus, due to the achieved performances, the Academy students have started internships and they have even got employed in IT companies. 

I Love I Hate NY is an iOS application dedicated to each individual that has visited, plans to visit or they simply live in New York City. The iOS app represents the best and fastest mode of getting a quick feedback over New York City in a matter of seconds taking into account the score that is made between the positive and negative feedback comments added by several users of the application. Each user will always have the possibility to have a clear view over the “pulse” of the city by closely watching the score.  

The self reference (an object’s way to refer to itself) seems to be handled very differently across object oriented languages. While in static java-like languages the this keyword is magic, straightforward and mostly unused, in Javascript the magic can be confusing. Yet again in Python some would describe it as “redundantly explicit”. In another dynamic language, Ruby, the self acts very similarly to Java’s this, but methods aren’t objects there either. Is this variety of behaviors due to random design decisions, or is there some common pattern in all these OO languages?

Technology provides new innovations and inventions that shape the lives of everybody across the world. Digitalization is now part of our everyday life. At its core lays the work of thousands upon thousands of software developers, testers, architects, project managers, engineers and more. Software development is hardly more than several decades old, it went through major transformations from what it was twenty years ago, and in the next ten years it will be completely different again.