DNS is the backbone of the internet and as such I believe every developer should know something about the basics and not just leave it for the sysadmin to sort. What is DNS? DNS or Domain Name System is what translates Domain names to IP addresses and vice versa. Wait what is an IP address and what are domain names?...

One of the websites I have been working on has been displaying an error in the console. The error reads as follows. The SSL certificate used to load resources from https://example.com will be distrusted in M70. Once distrusted, users will be prevented from loading these resources. See...

We are in the process of moving our companies websites onto the Azure platform. One of the challenges was to move image files out of the website project into blob storage. This week I have moved 150,000 of them. One thing I keep banging on about is that your source code should not contain data. If it does every time...

I recently blogged about using Azure Web Jobs , Azure Function is another way of doing the same thing, lets look at how they work. (Sorry its been a while since I blogged but I suspect an erratic schedule will continue for the next few months.) To create an Azure Function go to the Azure portal and click add new and...

I recently came home from a busy day of work to my wife blaming me for allowing our 18 month old son to reach some paint and get it all over the carpet. She was concentrating on the fact that he could reach the paint not on the fact that she had brilliantly got the paint out of the carpet. My instinct on being blamed...

As a developer using source control and git is bread and butter of what we do. Github is probably the most popular and widely known hosting service for source control but I have also used Bitbucket and Visual Studio Team Services. Lets have a look at each one and what they offer. Note while I have included prices I...

Next month I will celebrate ten years working at my current job, two weeks after that I will start a new chapter of my life at a new company. Lets take this opportunity to look back ten years at some of the great stuff I have achieved. 2006 In 2006 I had no IT experience. If you were to ask me where Event Logs could be...

So after five and a bit years of being an IT Manager here is some advice I have learned along the way in no particular order. On the whole I have enjoyed myself but it has been a real challenge at times. 1. Figure out what plates are still spinning Being an IT Manager is all about keeping everything running all of the...

For a while now I have been sharing some of my blog posts on the Dzone website. The Dzone website allows users to submit links to content and I have been submitting the content I have created on this website. This is how Dzone describes themselves: With over 1 Million members, DZone.com is one of the web’s largest...

Last time I started looking at Amazon Web Services and how it differed from Azure. I am going to continue looking at what it can do. Virtual Machines Lets look at what you can do with Virtual Machines. I selected to create a new Virtual Machine (or as AWS calls them an EC2 Instance) First you choose a name for your VM...