I often reflect on my interesting position of being an avid fan of type systems and precompiled production code, while primarily being a JavaScript developer. Especially as the ever changing landscape of the web development world keeps morphing slowly into something that is completely different… But somewhat familiar. I recently got involved in a discussion…

Azure ARM templates let you deploy and configure various Azure resources using a JSON file with a particular schema. Most of this schema is pretty easy to figure out from their documentation or by creating the resources in the Azure Portal and then using the “Automated Script” section of the resource group to look at…

I host a meet up in Christchurch called Azure Evening and this week we had a two great presenters Akmal Fazleen and Aurora Lin from Jade Sowftware talking about chat bots, Luis and Azure Machine Learning. The thing that was blew me away is that both the presenters were not “technical” people and weren’t developers….

NOTE: I have create a new article with an updated and improved approach. Please refer to that article here Lately I’ve been building a lot of single page applications (SPAs) with JavaScript and using ASPNET Core MVC as both the file server and the API server. Although I’ve tried many permutations of how exactly to…

After writing an article on how to Deploy a Create React App project to Azure with VSTS Build and Release I thought I would create a similar (near identical) article on the same thing with the Angular CLI! The Angular CLI has similar goals as Create React App however it also can be used to…

Create React App is a great way to get started with creating your a JavaScript application with React with no configuration. It is essentially a number of tools (webpack mostly) bundled into one node module that creates and builds your application. In this article I’m going to show you how to build and release this…

Although .NET Core has been out for a while the tooling was still in preview when it was released. Now that Visual Studio 2017 has been released the RTM (Release To Market) version of the tooling for building and publishing .NET Core are available. This includes the the .NET Core Command Line Interface (CLI). However…

Recently I decided to learn about Docker and I ran immediately into a problem running installing the latest version of Docker for Windows where I had followed their instructions for installing Hyper-V and enabling virtualization but it still didn’t work… Complaining about how virtualization was not enabled. But I found the solution! If you have…

I’m a JavaScript guy and I love open source, but I also work for a Microsoft Partner company. I’m the kind of developer who avoids spinning up Visual Studio if I don’t have to, would choose React Native over Xamarin and I know how to run a Linux server… But I’m definitely an exception in…

I have a love hate relationship with my propensity to volunteer to do things before I might be 100% (or even 50%) ready. On the one hand I love a challenge and the learning that it forces me to do. On the other hand I hate the stress and the ups and downs of impostor…