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Storing passwords into a database

Don'ts Don'ts Don't put raw passwords in the database Don't put encoded passwords in the database (i.e. Base64) Don't put simple hashed passwords in the database (i.

January 30, 2021

Authentications

... If you are using 3rd party OAuth providers for authorization, and not storing user ids and passwords yourself, then you don't need to read on. Allowing your users to create an account and a password means that you will need to persist that data into some sort of data store.

February 3, 2021

Javascript Essentials

Hoisting Hoisting is JavaScript's default behavior of moving declarations to the top. Given the following Javascript code, what is the expected output, and why? fcn2(); fcn1(); function fcn2(){ alert("hi"); } var fcn1 = function(){ alert("hey") } The expected output is a pop up alert that says "hi", followed by an error that fcn1 isn't defined.

November 12, 2017

Add SSL certificates to a website

... encrypted data under this protocol. This is a great way to protect sensitive data, such as passwords, or credit card information, since they will appear as garbled and unintelligible strings in the eyes of snoopers.

July 5, 2019

Web Development 101

HTTP vs. HTTPS HTTP stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol. It typically runs on TCP port 80. It is a protocol for sending data through browsers in the form of webpages and such. One major flaw with HTTP is that it is vulnerable to man in the middle attacks.

November 9, 2017

Seattle Conference on Scalability: YouTube Scalability

Notes Apache isn't that great at serving static content for a large number of requests vs. NetScaler load balancing Python is fast enough There are many other bottlenecks such as waiting for calls from DB, cache, etc.

December 25, 2020