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Raygun deployments & Azure Dev Ops
Unfortunately, it appears that Raygun does not have a ready built deployment integration for ADO. It looks like there are a few supported tools listed here: Supported Deployment Tools, but sadly, no love for ADO. What is this, like 2013? … Continue reading
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Azure lights and Brothel Mode™
A long, long time ago, I was watching a Scott Hanselman developer video and he had L.E.D lighting around his office ceiling. I thought that looked really cool, so like a nerdy little fanboy off I went and bought two … Continue reading
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Hollister – quality clothes, shit I.T.
OK, seems like another company takes the line of “change your email to use our service”. I purchased a nice hooded top in store, and signed up to the news letter at the PoS terminal with my hills.house email address. … Continue reading
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FleetWave Lite, first product release!
For full release details and a free trial, go to the Fleetwave Landing Page: https://www2.chevinfleet.com/introducing-fleetwave-lite How did I get here? FleetWave Lite is the product I’ve been working on for the past 18 months, converting an ASP.Net monolithic application that had grown organically over the previous 25 years into a cloud-native SaaS application. I’ll say it’s been difficult. We had no usage metrics, no idea how many concurrent users we’d have to support, and very little idea of data sizes because the product’s sales strategy was essentially fire and forget. We didn’t have access to any of these parameters because the product was installed on the client’s … Continue reading
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B.T.’s inability to fix email. Poor but unsurprising.
So, first thing, a pet hate. The number of times I’m signing up for something and the email address validation doesn’t accept my perfectly valid address because of the .house top-level domain. And, we’re not talking small fry here. Everything … Continue reading
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Small really is beautiful
I read a lot of stuff on Medium.com, there’s always plenty of articles to waste a full lunch-time on. Today’s lunch went on an article about building a self-contained game in c# in under 8k! Yep, pretty impressive for a … Continue reading
Reboot
Turns out this thing is on. So here we are again, another attempt at posting. This time, no pressure. No promises to post once a week (although I might). No promises of interesting code (although there may be). No promises … Continue reading
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Feeling a little neglected…
Is this thing on? :/ Posted with Blogsy
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Fresh starts…
Yup, but this time it really is. Lots of personal stuff happened over the last 18 months that really slowed progression of anything to an absolute halt! Firstly, personal health, like not being able to see properly or walk was … Continue reading
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A post a day…and sniffing petrol.
Ha-ha, well the Christmas run of posting almost daily didn’t last! repeat to yourself : I MUST NOT TAKE CONTRACTS THAT HAVE AN HOUR AND A HALF COMMUTE. I MUST NOT TAKE CONTRACTS THAT HAVE AN HOUR AND A HALF … Continue reading
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