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I logged in to my electronic banking this morning to be greeted with a message along the lines of: "We're replacing our authentication with a new identity app on this date." Yeehaw, more security. Yes, please. TAC SMS is long outdated and the European Union has new regulatory requirements that are forcing banks to upgrade. … Continue reading We’re going to charge you extra for our new mandatory login mechanism
On my last trip to South Africa I mostly stayed in the city center with a brief period in Sea Point on the Atlantic sea front. I generally like to be close to the ocean. Specifically a beach - my lunch time consists of food and a long walk which is my thinking time. This … Continue reading A Capetonian Comeback – Two months in the suburbs
About halfway through my month on Ko Lanta I started my research on where to head next. I had about five weeks to fill before returning to Europe. As I had already booked my return flight out of Bangkok I wanted to stay roughly around this timezone and Vietnam fit the bill. Also I had … Continue reading Hoi An – A month visiting a Vietnam village
The current Add-In platform for the Office family (Outlook Web, Office365 Web and Offline clients) are essentially websites loaded into an iFrame with some Office JavaScript libraries to provide interoperability to the host platform. The neat thing is this works across all client types (including iOS and Android) and uses general web technologies, e.g. React. … Continue reading ASP.NET Identity Cookies in Office 365 / Outlook Add-Ins and the SameSite security setting
OneDrive is marketed as one product when in reality there are 3 very different offerings. Unfortunately the main business product lacks the security features of the personal product. Nevertheless the marketing and documentation does not state this sufficiently. This needs to be taken into account when performing a risk analysis of your file storage. I … Continue reading OneDrive PSA: the day it forgot about history
The small island in the south of Thailand is as a popular tourist destinatior. It's famous for relaxing, snorkeling and ping. Tucked away in the center of the island lies the tropical co-working space KoHub. It attracts digital nomads from around the world. I had planned to visit here last year until I broke my … Continue reading A month of tropical co-working in Koh Lanta, Thailand
Cape Town has been at the top of my list ever since I decided to start travel full time. The city on the southern tip of South Africa is a hot spot for digital nomads. Year for year, especially in winter, a large number flocks down south. This year I decided to spend my winter … Continue reading Three Months in the Mother City – Cape Town, South Africa
Starting out on your first journey you don't think you're allowed to call yourself a digital nomad yet. Later you use in quotes because you can't identify 100% with it. But thanks to becoming main stream it's the easiest way of explaining the lifestyle. I've been meaning to write down some notes on how I … Continue reading Some notes on working, travelling and being a “digital nomad”
Once my leg had healed in April I set off south again to one of the larger islands in Greece. This was my second trip to Lesbos and it was going to be an intense month for me. Since the refugee crisis the tourism season has been shorter. Aegean Airlines was one of the few … Continue reading The Aegean Month at Birds Bay – Digital Nomads Lesbos
In our previous article Azure Resource Manager Templates – Securing your Parameters with KeyVault we have used KeyVault to safely store production secrets. In large teams you may have multiple people deploying resources but don't want to give them access to the actual secrets inside the vault. You can achieve this by creating a custom role that … Continue reading Azure Key Vault – Add Custom Role for Deployment Access Only
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