A new version of the JWT component for Outsystems is live, there are no new features but, for compatibility and security reasons, it’s recommended to upgrade to this, since some of base libraries have been updated to the latest stable versions. These include: BouncyCastle 1.8.9 Microsoft.IdentityModel.Logging 5.2.4 Microsoft.IdentityModel.Tokens 5.2.4 Newtonsoft.json 13.0.2 System.IdentityModel.Tokens.Jwt 5.2.4

This tweet from Marcel Schmitz sums up really nicely what we need to learn from what happened yesterday (and other recent outages…), besides not being able to send memes and hitting like on our favorite photos. Are we ready to accept the Internet is becoming a “black box” we know…

Sometime ago I called for help regarding the Box Connector component (more details here), so for the last few months the component hasn’t been marked as Stable for a very good reason. Although there wasn’t much feedback on using this version, the lack of reported issues as led me to promote the Under Development to Stable. No further changes on that beta version have been done, but just to recap the changes since the last stable release:

A new version of the BoxConnector, the Box integration for Outsystems applications, has been published in the Outsystems Forge, containing the merge of existing BoxConnector v2, a forked implementation with added features that has been deprecated since, that includes: Better support for JWT authentication. Allows to use As-User impersonation while…

One of my projects is something called t3mujinpack, a collection of film emulation presets for Darktable, an open source RAW developer that I happen to use to develop my photos. Back then I started to build those presets, which are built upon a features called Tone Curves, using existing color…

A long overdue update of t3mujinpack! I was meant to release this version to match the launch of Darktable 3, but a bug related with the edit of existing styles prevented me from editing them, and thus had to wait for Darktable 3.0.1 to be released to wrap this up. …

After the release of version 0.4.0 it was brought to my attention that the “Portras” NC/UC/VC were a bit off. …

A new release of t3mujinpack (my Darktable film emulation presets) is ready and available for all. Unlike the previous one, where most emulations were updated in a big way, this is a smaller release, but one with new things nevertheless. With the regular use while processing my photos (like the…

OAuth, in its various versions, is the current standard for authentication in REST services, and something that we, as users, are familiar to use everyday, when using our Facebook or Google accounts to login elsewhere. …