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2018

27 Nov, 2018

Wavemaker

Careers are what we all invest our energy and emotions in, either positively or negatively. Positive being the belief that we can make significant progress in this or another organisation and that it will give us the wherewithal to have a happy and …

20 Nov, 2018

Defining Policy as Code with ARM Templates


My colleagues and friends Tao Yang , and Stanislav Zhelyazkov have both recently posts interesting topics on how to implement your Azure Policy as Code which I strongly recommend you take a few moments to review

18 Nov, 2018

NodeMCU Pinouts

For the past year, I have been using a tiny board, known as the NodeMCU which is essentially a developer board for a module know as the ESP8266. The NodeMCU is formed by an ESP12E, which still has an ESP8266EX inside it.

NodeMCU ESP12 Exploded View

This device is …

30 Oct, 2018

Implementing Comments on a Static Site

At this point we are almost ready to go live with our site, however, one of the cornerstones to growing and sharing is communication.

Wordpress

In the world of Wordpress, this was a standard core feature, which leveraged the fact that the …

24 Oct, 2018

Using pipelines for flow static site content between markdown and foundation


With the heavy lifting done in creating the site building mechanics and a solid foundation to build and share upon; our final objective is to automate the process of connecting these two stages.

Release Pipeline

Technically the goal we are …

20 Oct, 2018

Laying the foundation in Azure for a Static Site


Hosting my site on Wordpress was not super complex; I leveraged the Azure PaaS Services for Web Apps, and orginally the 3rd party support for hosted MySQL database’s. Once I was up and running I quickly realised that all media hosted on the site …

10 Oct, 2018

Constructing a new Home with Jekyll and Azure DevOps


One of the unspoken truths behind the lack of posts in recent history was due to a few bugs, which in the end resulted in an experience where from home it appeared that any new content was published and working; but outside this fortress in the real …

5 Oct, 2018

Hitting Reset

10 Years, It is hard to believe that I have been posting thoughts here that long. And how so much has changed since I begun?

I started this journey with the encouragement of some amazing people in Microsoft, as an opportunity to spread the news about …

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