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ASP.NET C# - How to convert Office files to PDF using SyncFusion File Formats & Essential Studio A great third-party alternative to Office.Interop to programmatically create PDF out of MS Office Word, Excel and/or Powerpoint files

August 11, 2018January 7, 2021 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

A few months ago I've written a post here explaining how to programmatically convert MS Word DOC and DOCX files to PDF in ASP.NET C# using the Microsoft Office primary interop …

Design / Graphics

DesignEvo - A free Logo Maker service for those who can't draw A neat and user-friendly platform to create custom, royalty-free logos in few minutes for all-level users

August 8, 2018September 24, 2018 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

One of the most tedious thing I have to do as a developer is having to do the graphics for the project I'm working on. It's not that I cannot …

Cyber Security / Hardware / Operating Systems / Privacy & Compliance / Software / Web

US-CERT: 50 free PDF guides & tutorials to protect yourself against Cyber threats All the PDF released by US-CERT to test your knowledge against the most important Information Security topics as of today

August 2, 2018 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

From the issues related to PC configurationsto the latest Malware and Ransomware threats; from the Backup procedures to the Data Breach; from DDoS attacks to the latest Bluetooth and Wi-Fi vulnerabilities. These are …

Privacy & Compliance / Web

GDPR - Full Text in one single page - HTML & PDF The whole text of the UE General Data Protection Regulation (2016/679) in one single huge HTML & PDF page

July 31, 2018July 31, 2018 - by Ryan - 1 Comment

The new European General Data Protection Regulation (2016/679), also known as the GDPR, came into force on May 25, 2018. In this article we're publishing the full Regulation text in …

Coding / PHP / Web

WordPress - How to Escape & Strip HTML tags from the Post Title A tutorial explaining how to properly use the get_the_title() and the_title_attribute() WordPress functions to properly format the Post Entry Title

July 31, 2018July 31, 2018 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

Today I received an e-mail from Richard of Comparitech (thank you Richard, by the way!) telling me that there was an odd issue with our blog's social sharing feature. I …

Servers & Services / Tools & Utilities / Web

Comparitech Speed Test - a valid alternative to Ookla Speedtest.net A new broadband speed test service which features an interesting, Charity-oriented fund raising plan

July 30, 2018July 30, 2018 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

Any non-newbie Internet user - and developer - is most likely aware of the Ookla's Speedtest.net website, the free broadband speed measurement service founded in 2006 and leading the market …

Cloud / Servers & Services / Web

Google launches Drive Stand-Alone for Business at Google Cloud Next 2018 Mountain View giant announced at GCN18 a new stand-alone version of Google Drive for Business for those who do not want to subscribe to the whole G-Suite package

July 27, 2018April 18, 2021 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

The news keep flowing from San Francisco during the Google Cloud Next 2018 event: in case you've missed the first two days, you can view them on YouTube by clicking here for …

Data Transfer Project - Google, Twitter, Microsoft e Facebook

Coding / Privacy & Compliance / Social Networks / Web

Data Transfer Project - Google, Twitter, Microsoft & Facebook Introducing Data Transfer Project, the new framework developed by Google, Twitter, Microsoft and Facebook to meet the Right to Data Portability GDPR requirements

July 23, 2018January 7, 2021 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

On Friday, July 20, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Twitter announced the launch of the Data Transfer Project (DTP), a joint initiative to create a common open-source, service-to-service data portability platform that …

System.Web.HttpException (0x80004005): The application is configured to issue secure cookies - Cause e soluzioni del problema

ASP.NET / C# / Coding / Servers & Services / Web

ASP.NET C# - The client and server cannot communicate, because they do not possess a common algorithm - How to fix it How to fix the "System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: The client and server cannot communicate, because they do not possess a common algorithm" error by properly configuring the TLS 1.1 & TLS 1.2 cryptographic protocols

July 20, 2018January 7, 2021 - by Ryan - 8 Comments.

If you've stumbled upon this post, it probably means that you're struggling against a nasty issue affecting one or more of your Web Application Projects when you publish it to …

ASP.NET / C# / Coding / Cyber Security

AESCrypt - AES 128 / AES 192 / AES 256 Class for ASP.NET C# with advanced settings Yet Another AES-Rijndael cryptographic class for ASP.NET C# to easily handle basic and advanced crypto tasks using 128, 192 and 256 Key Length and a whole lot of custom options & settings: Hash, Padding Mode, Cipher Mode, Salt, IV & more

July 13, 2018July 13, 2018 - by Ryan - 2 Comments.

The AES 256 / Rijndael encryption standard had a lot of ASP.NET C# implementations within the past few years: projects like BouncyCastle, SharpAESCrypt and CryptoN, just to name a few of them, are …