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20 February 2017

Maybe I’m only speaking for myself here, but I think the most exciting thing about working in this industry is the way in which it constantly changes. Here at LightMedia we are always discussing the latest trends, features and products so that we can improve our offering to our clients, and I’m here to briefly introduce our latest big shift:ASP.NET Core, and with it the beginning of a migration to MVC. There are some great things about ASP.NET Core MVC that I can’t get...

23 January 2017

In moving to ASP.NET Core, one of the things which puzzled us was making sense of the Identity features for roles and claims. We kept finding ourselves asking "what's the difference anyway - aren't they both just things which you give to a user to show their permissions?". Before we could decide whether these features added value to the membership systems that we build for our clients, we had to decide what Microsoft intended us to do with them in the first place. It...

23 January 2017

The landscape for development is changing, fast. With new buzz words, such as DevOps and the rest, there is more and more a developer needs to understand that would have traditionally been out of scope. The developer has many languages, techniques and platforms to master so security can often be over looked. Over the next few weeks I am going to cover a number of important areas that as a developer you need to be aware of. Security in transit LightMedia Development work heavily in...

08 December 2016

LightMedia have been awarded the Cyber Essentials certification which is a government-endorsed cyber security standard. The certification demonstrates LightMedia meets a government-set level of protection against common cyber threats, takes cyber and information security seriously, and can work directly for Government contract projects[1]. Protecting customer and company information is of key importance to us at LightMedia and certificatations like this help demonstrate that small to medium...

16 November 2016

With years of developing web applications, one thing that comes up time and time again is... What is the safest way to store passwords in a system? There are number of simple ways to store passwords Clear text Encrypted Hashing Password-based key derivation functions Clear Text If someone enters their password as "dog1" then the password will be stored in the database as "dog1". Storing the password in this format means anyone with access to the...

01 June 2016

We felt it was about time we added a burst of colour and creativity to our walls here in the LightMedia office. It'll certainly take some getting used to but we're very happy with it! Take a look at this short timelapse of the work being done.