DevOps, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Software Engineering and Agile.
A back to basics article on the binary data types and ways to represent them.
An overview of the arguments for and against a MonoRepo vs Multiple Repo's. Specifically related to my experience of the Microsoft .NET world and recent innovations with the tooling. There is also a bonus section on merging multiple repositories into a MonoRepo whilst retaining git history for the files.
This article gives a real world example of deploying a .NET Core App to a VM running IIS using TFS 2018 Update 1 Release Management.
What are the pros and cons of using Masked Production Data vs Generated Test Data. This article goes into a bit of detail on both.
If like me you haven't got round to setting up your own blob storage for your website and you want a quick and easy way to embed images in your markdown or html, then here's how to do it with DropBox...
Have you ever needed to create a .npmrc file or another file or folder that starts with a dot and has not file extension, you've probably hit an issue when you tried it in Windows Explorer? Well here's how you do it...
Out of the box bundling and minification is not enabled. Here is how to enable it...
This article follows on from the first article in my blog and details a bit more about the technology stack underpinning this blog.
As you can probably tell, front end development is not my strong point!...
Why did I create this blog and start writing articles? There are a few reasons;
To keep up with the latest technology stack and tooling. Working behind a corporate proxy with sensitive data limits my day to day ability to do this. I'll go into more details on the technology behind this blog.
To give me somewhere to save all those tips, tricks, work around, but fixes and the sort that I have amassed and sometimes need to refer back to years later, having no idea what it was or where I found it.
To hopefully give something back to other developers like me who seem to end up trawling this internet for many hours trying to find a solution to a problem...