In 2018 Microsoft re-launched VSTS as Azure Devops with a new UI and a bunch of new features. The best new feature in my opinion is that you can create your build configurations in code using YAML. Visual editors can be great but I prefer to put my build definition directly in my repo and…

This article is an update to a previous article where I described how to serve a single page JavaScript app with ASP.NET Core. The reason for the update is that I’ve changed the way that I approach doing this. I think the new approach is easier and it has the benefit of being more performant,…

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….

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…