09. July 2011

FubuMVC: Authorization

When it comes to authorization, FubuMVC is very powerful in letting you setup extremely customizable rules for deciding who has access to what. Luckily, Joshua Arnold was able to help me get these rules setup and I’d like to document the process for everyone else.

In this post, I’ll be going over how to write a custom authorization rule to keep users from being able to edit another user’s blog post in a simple blogging application. I’ll do this by plugging into the authorization facilities built into FubuMVC.

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08. July 2011

FubuMVC: Authentication

If you’re using FubuMVC and your site requires users to login, you’ll probably want to use the built in authentication facilities that FubuMVC provides. In this post, I’ll attempt to explain how this works.

I’m going to write an authentication convention to block access to certain actions from unauthenticated users.

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04. May 2011

Possible Shortcomings of Groupon

The other day I was reading an article titled Grouponed to death? at The CX Rx. It hit a lot of points that I’ve always thought about these deal sites like Groupon, Living Social, and the 100’s of other clones that have been popping up.

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