Migrating questionable date strings
I’ve been having a lot of fun with data migration lately /s Anyway I have an evil source database that has free-form strings that allegedly represent dates. I look at this data and think to myself,...
View ArticleThe future of SharePoint development is cloudy
I’ve seen the future of SharePoint development and it’s decidedly cloudy. And that’s a good thing, no, that’s a great thing for the health of the SharePoint developer community. A few months back I was...
View ArticleMinimal path to awesome–VSTS Release Management and Classic mode Azure Website
I’ve been doing a whole lot of work with Visual Studio Team Services, formerly Visual Studio Online, and making heavy us of the Release Management feature as I discussed recently on the Microsoft Cloud...
View ArticleSlot switching Azure Website from VSTS
In my last post I covered off how to set up a simple release process that deploys to an Azure Website in classic mode. That process involved an explicit web deploy to each slot. What might be useful...
View ArticleDocker on Windows – Mounting Volumes
If your using Docker on Windows and looking to share folders between your host machine and your running containers you’ll likely want to us the –v flag to mount a volume like this: docker run –it --rm...
View ArticleDocker on Windows – Network Issues
Recently after updating to version 17.0.3.0 I noticed some network related issues while attempting to install new npm packages and interact with Docker Hub. Attempting to search on Docker Hub would...
View ArticleDocker on Windows – Angular Development
I’ve been on a bit of a Docker kick lately. Mostly to help my team reduce the time it takes to get up and running on a project. The end goal here being that, where possible, we’ll have containerized...
View ArticleMicrosoft Graph Community Call Recording
The Microsoft Graph team are awesome. Not only are they providing the Microsoft Graph but they are also really responsive and great to work with. Now they are looking to spread their love even further...
View ArticleSPTechCon: Hit the ground running with the Microsoft Graph
I had the pleasure of presenting at SPTechCon in Boston today. It was a fun talk with a great audience. As promised here is my Postman collection and slides:
View ArticleLinux + PowerShell + AzureCLI in DevOps Pipelines
A couple of months ago I had an exchange with Donovan Brown on Twitter about using AzureCLI & PowerShell in Azure DevOps pipelines on Linux hosted agents. As is often the way I didn’t have the...
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