Posts by Ben Ripkens

JavaScript

Working with Same-Origin Policy Restrictions

The Same-Origin Policy (SOP) is a security model that almost everyone gets in touch with when developing websites or web... Read more

JavaScript

03/23/15 by Ben Ripkens

Angular services are singleton objects that can be used to organize and share code. Services are typically used to interact... Read more

JavaScript

03/18/15 by Ben Ripkens

Sometimes it takes more time or words to describe a concept in natural language, than to express it in code.... Read more

JavaScript

03/11/15 by Ben Ripkens

Last week my colleague Bastian Krol put up an interesting question on Twitter about JavaScript Promises and the ability to... Read more

Java

11/28/14 by Ben Ripkens

Ionic is one of those frameworks that you hear about from time to time. It is barely a year old... Read more

Agile

11/05/14 by Ben Ripkens

The web can be a brutal environment with various combinations of browsers and operating systems (platforms). It is quite likely... Read more

Open Source

08/04/14 by Ben Ripkens

You probably know this situation: To develop a piece of software, other services like databases and messaging systems are required.... Read more

Architecture

06/30/14 by Ben Ripkens

Suppose you have a password strength checker in your user interface to help users choose secure and easily remembered passwords.... Read more

Open Source

01/07/14 by Ben Ripkens

You have probably heard of and may even have used XML Schema or Document Type Definitions to describe the structure... Read more