January came and went rather quickly, and as marketers, that means we have less than 11 months left to accomplish what we’ve set out to do in 2014. Are you on the right track? In an effort to forecast the 2014 business landscape, Mark Gehman, Director of Perficient’s Sitecore practice, prepared a guide that emphasizes […]
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Gracefully handle MVC login session expiration in javascript
If your web application is built using ASP.NET MVC stack and it requires user authentication and authorization to access a certain parts of the application (or application as a whole), then the chances are that you using [Authorize] controller attribute. This attribute could be applied to controller as a whole or to any of the […]
How Windows Azure delivers the Olympics
NBC and Microsoft recently publicized they are streaming every event of the 2014 Winter Olympics to any iOS, Android, Windows device using Windows Azure Media Services. What is Windows Azure Media Services (WAMS) and how does it work? WAMS is a cloud optimized edition of the Microsoft Media Platform (MMP) which handles a variety of […]
ASP.NET MVC anti-forgery token demystified – part 3: AJAX
This blog post is third and final in series about MVC anti-forgery (CSRF) token. Part 1. Part 2.As we talked about it earlier, MVC have a great built-in functionality for securing form posts with anti-forgery tokens and it’s even possible make it work across multiple web applications. However, these days modern web applications tend to […]
Nintex 2013: Sequential Approval Workflow
I had a recent request from a client to create a workflow that would only create approval task in the order that the approvers were listed. This allows the approval tasks to be created one at a time rather than all at once, and if a single approver breaks the chain, we can either break […]
Perficient announces Lync Conference evening event sponsorship
Today, Perficient announced that we will be the evening event sponsor at the second annual Lync Conference in Las Vegas from February 18-20. The Perficient team, including several Lync Microsoft Certified Masters (MCM), will be showcasing our expertise in booth 223. The team will also be giving away a $1000 gift certificate to the Microsoft Store. […]
ASP.NET MVC anti-forgery token demystified – part 2: inside
In the previous installment of this post series I talked about CSRF attack and how to prevent it using ASP.NET MVC built in components. Today I want to dive deeper into the framework code and show you what’s under the hood to anti-forgery token implementation in MVC. Some time ago Microsoft took a huge step […]
ASP.NET MVC anti-forgery token demystified – part 1: what is it?
Securing your web application is now more important than ever because various security attacks are growing in numbers and becoming more sophisticated and frequent. One of the most common types of attacks is Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attack. In this kind of attack malicious web sites are hijacking a previously authenticated user sessions to […]
New Microsoft CEO and the ripple effects
This morning Microsoft announced that Satya Nadella will be taking over as the new CEO. Satya Nadella is the former head of the Cloud and Enterprise division at Microsoft. The last few years Microsoft has been focused on providing a better cloud solution. They have rapidly iterated on Windows Azure, SharePoint Online, Office 365, Xbox […]
Power BI Update
“Power BI is a compelling new offering with advanced collaborative BI capabilities –including mobile cross-platform reporting– to Office 365 SharePoint Online users. But that’s not all. Power BI also encompasses new tools in Excel 2013 that support streamlined self-service reporting and analytics. Find out how you can leverage the hot new self-service BI features coming […]
Webinar Recap & Replay: Building a Better Healthcare Dashboard
Yesterday, Perficient and Microsoft teamed up for the webinar, “Building the Better Healthcare Dashboard.” Joseph Paranteau, Principal Platform Solution Specialist at Microsoft, and Martin Sizemore, Healthcare Principal at Perficient, joined together to take a look at the business side of key performance indicators, and show attendees how Microsoft SQL Server 2012 and Sharepoint 2013 deliver […]