Back when I was a kid, I used to record our weekly gas and electricity meter readings in a little notebook. We then typed these reading into a spreadsheet (this was in the pre-Excel days), which allowed plotting as a line graph. How would I go about doing a similar thing today? First off, I have a smart meter that...

Azure DevOps release pipelines have lots of options to do things how you want. One of my favourites is the option for approval. There are two ways you can do approvals Pre and Post deployment. Lets look at both. Pre Deployment Approval Lets imagine you have a simple deployment pipeline that deploys to a...

I didn’t make any goals for 2020, or if I did, I didn’t officially announce them. 2020 has been a hard year for all of us, 2021 is going to be better. Here are a few ideas for my goals for the year ahead. Azure certification Mentoring F# Cosmos db/Mongo db Give a talk Mandlebrot Generator Pwned Pass Mobile App More...

I saw a tweet about building a twitter clone being harder than you would think. So this of course started me thinking how I would go about building something like that. Ok so where would I start? First a few assumptions. Development by a lone developer ie me Tech stack will be dotnet and other tech I am familiar with...

It has been a bit of a mad week this week. I joined a new team so lots of time learning what’s what and also being pulled in two directions as usual demands come through on top of that. My blog runs on Blazor and I have been making use of JavaScript interop to update the html headers and update the page title to match...

I use sp_send_dbmail to send results of sql queries by email to business users. Recently an issue was raised that data was being cut off after 255 characters. To fix this I added @query_no_truncate = 1, however this stopped the column headings from being included. No idea why you can’t have all the data and column...

Been a quiet week, so wasn’t expecting to have much to write on here, however a few things happened worth talking about. My First PR A comment was made to me to do something with the postcodes that are in the system I am developing. Find out what projects have postcodes near each other, and that way work can be grouped...

I know Active Directory is fussy about clocks being in sync however not sure how todays issue happened. I run my docker compose file from Visual Studio and I get a weird error. SecurityTokenNotYetValidException: IDX10222: Lifetime validation failed. The token is not yet valid. ValidFrom: 'System.DateTime', Current...

One of my favourite podcasts is Troy Hunts weekly update. In it he discusses stuff that he has been working on, plus some personal stuff. I am going to attempt to do something similar. It will probably take me a few of these before we get a look and feel that works. Monday A week off work, mainly to use it up before...

Have you wondered what info you are leaking via your response headers?, do you want some kind of guide about what headers to set or remove altogether? Head on over to https://securityheaders.com/ This is a site created by security expert Scott Helme that rates a URL based on what response headers it can see. I am...