Tag: Umbraco

Time to say goodbye…for now

Hello all
I have not written a blog post for a little while but I thought I’ll cobble this together on the commute into London.

It’s time to say goodbye to uHangout for this year, but don’t worry it’s not going away permanently it’s that uHangout & me will be taking a little well deserved break.

This is mainly because I am stepping away from the lovely Umbraco Gold Partner gang that is The CogWorks and in doing so I am taking a little ‘me’ time between now; well tomorrow & when my new role starts in January.

So it made sense for uHangout to take a break so that I can recharge my batteries, pump up that enthusiasm and ensure the uHangout pet project gets a bit more love and that the annoying tech issues become less frequent than they currently are!

So in the new year I am so happy to announce that I will be returning to work with the awesome guys & gals over at Umbraco to help continuing to deliver a great CMS that we all love to use.

I am sad to be leaving my CogWorks family and has been loads of fun, so if you are on the lookout for a new Umbraco role and want to work with a great team building some neat websites then make sure to get in touch with Anthony Dang or Adam Shallcross

With me joining Umbraco the uHangout project will not turn into a corporate marketing show; not that Umbraco is even ‘corporate’ in that sense that of the way. This will still a pet project of mine which I will still be talking with the fantastic members of the Umbraco community about their packages & latest contribution in this show & tell format.

So with me taking a bit of hiatus I will be spending some good family time and going completely dark, so don’t expect me to reply to tweets and emails so that I can fully disconnect from our busy world that we all work in to become a fully rested & recharged Warren ready to deliver great stuff in the new year!

So don’t panic I have not run away or got hit by a bus!

With that all said & done it’s time to say goodbye….for now.
Warren x

Securing Umbraco Web APIs using JSON Web Tokens

Hello all,
First off a very happy new year to you all. I hope you had a good time off over the festive period and relaxed.

Over this festive period in between our baby girl arriving during late night feeds and insomnia kicking in, I managed to find a little time to polish off my new pet project for the wonderful Umbraco CMS. So I herby introduce you to UmbracoAuthTokens!

What is Umbraco Auth Tokens?

Umbraco Auth Tokens is a project that I have built that allows you to secure Umbraco WebAPI Controllers using a token based authentication using JSON Web Tokens aka JWT; pronounced jot. This is ideal for securing WebAPIs that require using a backoffice Umbraco user.

For example you may want to securely from a third party client be it a mobile application or similar create a new page or any other action that a backofficer Umbraco user may do.

What are JWTs?

They are an auth token that allows you to send a piece of JSON encoded as a token and are the more modern approach to deal with auth in applications especially as we build applications across different devices. The videos below will do a lot better trying to explain it than I can do.

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