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Linux + 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...
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 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...
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Docker 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...
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Docker 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...
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Docker 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...
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Slot 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...
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Minimal 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...
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The 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...
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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,...
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Name ActiveX controls for public sites AKA go away name.dll prompt
So, I use Chrome, there I said it. They say that admitting you have a problem is the first step to solving it. Anyway when I’m browsing the web using what is, in general, a pretty good browser I’ll...
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SPDisposeCheck: Do not use for SharePoint 2013
I like many SharePoint developers out there I am user of SPDisposeCheck. My team and I use this as in our Continuous Integration builds as one of our quality checks on to determine if our code is...
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Setting up Visual Studio 2012 for SharePoint 2013
VS2012 Update 1 is great it adds the Microsoft Fakes framework for stubbing out SharePoint dependencies and other really useful tools for SharePoint development. If you’re using Visual Studio 2012 you...
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VS 2010: Missing Source Control Icons
So I’m working on a project with a number of other developers at present. However every so often when another developer adds files to source control when they are added to my local solution they appear...
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Don’t get burned by Redis ConnectionMultiplexer; A sample wrapper
Every had a latent bug go undetected and then jump up and bite you? Yeah, not the nicest feeling. I’ve been working on a pretty interesting project that now makes use of Redis to provide a caching...
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MVPComCamp: PowerShell Automation for Everyone
Last weekend around the world there was a global series of events hosted by Microsoft known as MVPComCamp. I was one of the people to present here in Auckland, New Zealand. I was speaking on a topic...
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Name ActiveX controls for public sites AKA go away name.dll prompt
So, I use Chrome, there I said it. They say that admitting you have a problem is the first step to solving it. Anyway when I’m browsing the web using what is, in general, a pretty good browser I’ll...
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SPDisposeCheck: Do not use for SharePoint 2013
I like many SharePoint developers out there I am user of SPDisposeCheck. My team and I use this as in our Continuous Integration builds as one of our quality checks on to determine if our code is...
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Practical Guide to Public Facing sites
This year I presented a second session at the New Zealand SharePoint Conferences, on “A Practical Guide to Public Facing web sites”. As promised in my session here is the slide deck. Filed under:...
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Writing testable SharePoint code: New Zealand and Australian SharePoint...
This year I was lucky enough to be invited back to present at the New Zealand and Australian SharePoint Conferences, this time on “Writing Testable SharePoint Code”. As promised in my sessions here is...
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