How much does it Cost to run my side projects? This is going to be an interesting look at my spending, hopefully it can show you can do a lot without breaking the bank! I have a personal Azure subscription that I pay for myself. I don’t use anything connected to my work, as jobs change and I don’t want to have to shift...
On Saturday 3rd December I attended DDD North . It is a community run conference for Developers (the D’s stand for Developer) and I had a fab time there. Many conferences are going online which is great, however there is nothing quite like chatting over coffee or lunch with fellow Developers about the tech you are...
This morning the client complains that the website is not working. I do some checking and I confirm that there is indeed an error. The error they are seeing is: An unhandled exception occurred while processing the request. MsalServiceException: A configuration issue is preventing authentication - check the error...
I know Active Directory is fussy about clocks being in sync however not sure how todays issue happened. I run my docker compose file from Visual Studio and I get a weird error. SecurityTokenNotYetValidException: IDX10222: Lifetime validation failed. The token is not yet valid. ValidFrom: 'System.DateTime', Current...
Terraform is a way to script the creation of Azure Resources. By scripting the creation of your resources you can run them again and again and be certain that everything is configured exactly the same as the script has specified. No more forgetting to tick the tick box, if it’s in your script then it will be deployed...
Azure Key Vault is a secure way of storing your keys, certificates and secrets so your application can access everything it needs to but you don’t have them being stored insecurely anywhere such as in source control. I have been wanting to give Azure Key Vault a try for a while now as it can make use of Azure Active...
While at Microsoft Ignite I heard about a lot of cool tech that I want to know more about. The best way to learn something is use it to solve a problem. So what can I build that is both useful and will let me play with some new tech? I have a Xamarin Forms app Pwned Pass that has over 500 downloads on Google play and...
I have been using Azure DevOps (Or VSTS or VSO etc) for a while now and one of the great features is doing automatic builds with every check-in. This is more commonly known as a CI (continuous integration) build. More recently I have started playing about with creating my build using YAML files instead of using the web...
I have blogged a few times about interfaces , and how useful they are for producing good quality maintainable code. Let’s look at a problem and the solution I came up with which I am quite proud of. As previously mentioned I am in the process of moving images from AWS to Azure blob storage. Now that the actual files...
We are in the process of moving our companies websites onto the Azure platform. One of the challenges was to move image files out of the website project into blob storage. This week I have moved 150,000 of them. One thing I keep banging on about is that your source code should not contain data. If it does every time...