I'm a Principal Engineer at PERSUIT, and I work on several side projects in my spare time. I cut my teeth on GWBASIC as a child in the 80s and over the years I've used many environments from C, Delphi and Java to modern web development using Node, React and TypeScript.
I hold a PhD from RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, where I taught Computer Science for more than a decade.
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Aug 23, 2023 · 11 min read · In parts 1 and 2 we covered the basics of authorisation, and how to set up a permissions system in situations where the permissions vary only by the user's roles and memberships. We'll be building on the code presented in those parts, so it's a good ...
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Aug 23, 2023 · 13 min read · In part 1, we have an introduction to RBAC and why it's the best design for authorisation in most projects. We saw how authorisation is not one-size-fits-all and there are actually several different scenarios we have to cover, and that not all projec...
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Aug 23, 2023 · 7 min read · If there's one part of an application that developers don't like touching, it's authorisation. A critical piece of any multi-user application, it's the code that ensures the user can only do the things they're meant to be able to do. Most of the tuto...
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Aug 9, 2023 · 6 min read · IDs are often overlooked, but they play a crucial role in almost every application. Most modern IDs are random strings, an improvement on the previously popular sequential IDs. However, we can improve them further by adding a short prefix to designat...
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Jul 27, 2023 · 7 min read · Find the complete code for this article on Github In the first 4 articles of this series, we created an Apollo Server plugin to identify fields in our schema that we want to make non-nullable, but are presently returning null. In this final article, ...
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