TeamCity is a Continuous Integration software package which is very easy to install and set up. So easy I managed it over a weekend. First of all I fired up a VM in Azure. I found that a Basic A1 VM was sufficient so running a CI server doesn’t have to be expensive, alternatively you could always set a Virtual or...

I have spent most of the day tweaking my Azure websites. Lots of fun! Last week unfortunately Azure had some problems and many websites that were running in the North Europe data centre were unavailable for several hours. And you guessed it my websites were hosted here. All hosting providers are going to have downtime...

I want to learn Development and eventually move into a development role. But what is the difference between development and what I already do? Put simply Development or programming is the creation of new programs, websites or databases. IT Operations or System Administration is the administration of existing servers,...