Sadly, I only began learning web security after I had been working as a programmer for a while. This means that there are quite a few applications (ASP.NET WebForms) I built which are trivial to hack. I’ve decided to do a security review of these applications. I plan to, in the next few posts, present the security loop holes in my past applications and what I did to solve them....

When I first came across view models in sample code and on blog sites, I was immediately turned off. It looked like straight up duplication of code. I got sick to my stomach when I saw that the "problem" of view models had escalated to the point where people were using tools such as AutoMapper to map domain model objects to view model objects. But it didn't take long before I understood how important view models are....

I'm working hard to become a better programmer. That's the reason I search out the industry's finest and read everything they post anywhere. Most can probably relate with me when I say I have a twitter account, I follow tons of great developers and I don't have a single tweet. Of those industry greats that I pay attention to, every single one of them adhere to the Test Driven Design (TDD) philosophy....

Implementing a model in ASP.NET MVC 3 for my Blog site has turned out to be a long and tiring process. I'm sure it could have been a short and easy process if I wasn't trying to find the best way to do things, but I am. So why exactly was implementing a model so hard? It's hard because there are so many different implementations in use and it's tough to determine which one is the "right" one....