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Secure Login

by Remy Porter in Representative Line on 2017-10-23

“I logged into the admin app.”

Julie’s boss had the username and password for the admin app, so that wasn’t too surprising.

35 comments - Last comment @ 2017-10-28

Refactoring the Conditional

by Remy Porter in Representative Line on 2017-10-11

Virginia N was trying to refactor some code, and that meant understanding where the value m_PSOC_SIG was used, and why. So, she did some searching, and found this line, which doesn’t contain our value:

ChangePosition("P",true,(bool)ar[6],(DateTime)ar[1],(DateTime)ar[5]);

43 comments - Last comment @ 2017-11-08

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