My software development related bloggings...mostly.
My first look into F# was in 2011 when I read Programming F#. I enjoyed working through that book and I realized that F# had opened the door to functional programming in .NET but at the time C# was vastly superior in both available information and developer experience. I set F# aside. Recently I …
Every couple of years I settle on the general design for a full-stack application which I then use to explore various technologies and architectural patterns. I refer to these as my exploratory applications. In my 2014 post RecipeBox is Live I discuss the public release of one such application. A …
Previously # I first investigated Squirrel.Windows as a technology for Windows application deployment two years ago during a search for an alternative to ClickOnce (my 2 cents). I documented some of those efforts in my post ClickOnce, Squirrel and Nuts. In that post I expressed a very favorable …
Background # I’ve found myself trying to quantify differences between available data store options in .NET many times over the last decade. Historically I’ve performed such comparisons using a simple Console Application project in Visual Studio. I’d write test methods to provide …
Scheduled Azure WebJob Options # I had a need to understand the options for scheduling Azure WebJobs. I quickly found the Azure documentation article Run background tasks with WebJobs which provides two possible methods for scheduling the execution of a WebJob, CRON expression and the use of Azure …
Yes I did. I attempted to deploy to an Azure Web App from VS2015 while Fiddler was running. Of course it failed. More importantly I received a very generic connection error. This is exactly what you’d expect from such a simple “attack”. Azure App Service +1
For this discussion let us assume we wish to store configuration in the file config.json. { "epicswords": { "stormbringer": "elric", "excalibur": "arthur" } } If you start investigating configuration for .NET Core you’ll discover reading from .json files …
I recently stumbled across an item under Azure App Service’s Development properties called “App Service Editor (preview)”. It can be found in the Development Tools section of any Azure App Service application’s properties. Of course I clicked it. I found this. I’ve been …
I’m trying out Ghost for the first time. I’ve wanted to find an alternative to Blogger for a while now but just hadn’t put the effort into it. Blogger is tremendously easy to blog with but the presentation of the blog itself really shows its age. I wanted to find something with the …
A Rocky Start # I saw the initial announcement for Azure Functions in one of the Azure newsletters. I watched two channel9 videos and read what documentation I could find. I even emailed a friend about it. I was pretty excited. My first experience with Azure Functions was a couple months back. It …