Top Stories published by cesarafonso in 2015

WebAPI with CORS — IIS Intercepts OPTIONS Verb

Note: In this post, I’ll ignore JSONP since it’s a “workaround” to the topic. Also, CORS doesn’t have anything to do with an Irish band.

When exposing a REST API, you have to consider whether you want to allow CORS or not…


Priming effect

“Priming is an implicit memory effect in which exposure to one stimulus influences a response to another stimulus. (…) For example, if a person reads a list of words including the word table, and is later asked to complete a word starting with tab, the probability that he or she will answer table is…


A bug costing 370 million dollars

A couple of months ago I wrote a post about Software quality assurance. Long story short, having a bug in a website for a local grocery store is one thing, having a bug in a medical device, a jet fighter or a commercial airplane is a totally different story. Here’s a…

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