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Recently, I was working on a project where I needed to retrieve the access token from HttpContext and use this token to perform an HTTP request to get additional user info from an OpenID Connect (OIDC) UserInfo endpoint.All this logic was encapsulated in a single service class.Unit testing this class was giving me all sorts of issues and headaches…

Across the web you find a lot of tutorials, papers and documentation about the Specification Pattern which often seem to be contradictory in their use. The most familiar way this pattern is known, is like in this paper of Martin Fowler and Eric Evans. More recent tutorials, papers and documentation show a whole new way of using the Specification P…

Hi, I’m Nick D’hondt, a front-end web developer at Sweet Mustard. When I was working on a project, lots of events needed to be sent from a client to a server, and then back to some clients. These events had to be accessible at multiple places on these clients. I was in need of a versatile architecture to handle real time events sent from a server.…

At Sweet Mustard, we mostly use Angular when building web applications for customers. These applications can get quite large and often don’t come without some struggles when building them. This is why there’s a big focus on writing clean code and keeping things organised. By doing so, everyone at Sweet Mustard is able to follow the structure of an…

We are agile coaches at Sweet Mustard, we support people in their personal growth, teams in their agile mindset and organizations to work better and closer together. For Sweet Mustard we did the same, started with implementing some best practises of so called teal organizations. So we decided that we had to share the journey of Sweet Mustard and s…

The Sweet Mustard Innovation Day is a 24h quest for inspiring technological experiments, stunning design ideas and surprising business insights. The kick-off of our latest edition was given on Thursday evening, November 8th at the Sweet Mustard headquarters. The new concepts were presented 24h later during the Innovation Day Awards @Hangar K.Are y…