Developer Diary #2 - Tokens and Claims
Development is iterative, we take that for granted. But iterations can be painful, excrutiating chop jobs where you rip the very heart and soul out of your product, only to replace it with something bigger, better, and stronger. Ally's authentication platorm went through a process like this, and while it was painful and took way longer than it should have or anyone would have liked it to, ultimately it was the best thing for the company.
Let me start by saying, there are hundreds of ways to handle authentication in web services. There are RESTful ways, implicit ways, explicit ways, certificates,...
Developer Diary #1: Screen Space Dilemma
The developer diary will be a place for our developers to talk about the pitfalls, gotcha’s, solutions, and technology they’re working on. Sometimes these posts will deal with Ally, sometimes they’ll be completely unrelated, but always (hopefully) insightful. I wanted to comment today about how screen space has changed in the last few years. Specifically, we live in a horizontal world now, and that just wasn’t the case before. Back in the bad old days of CRTs, the 14 square inches of screen real estate didn’t much care if your UI was laid out horizontal or vertically. However, because...