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The ability to discern false content and critically analyze information on the internet is a skill that is increasingly required. Most of us in the tech field use the internet daily for best practice implementations and personal development. …

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Azure Integration Motivation

More recently I’ve been looking into azure integration and have been wanting to advance in the field. I enjoy all the real world uses of these products and have been taking on whatever becomes available at work. …

Not every project can host services in the cloud. If you have a local environment running on virtual machines, connecting to that from the Android emulator running on the same host can be tricky. This post details the solution I use and the tools needed to enable it.

For the original version of this post see Rik …

The Issue

This site was built using Hugo, a static site generator. I recently tried to do a long overdue update the version of Hugo from 0.108 to the current 0.122 version.

I had not expected any problems, but found that the site failed to render, but with no error message all I saw was

1hugo.exe server --logLevel info …

I was recently trying to create an Azure DevOps work item when an email is received using the Power Automate 'Create an Azure DevOps work item when email arrives with 'Bug' in subject' template.

The flow created without issue, and all the drop downs were correctly populated with O365 and Azure DevOps values as …

Problem Space

Over the years of developing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with either ARM templates or Bicep (since it was released in 2020), I have made it my best practice where possible to use well-defined base type parameters (Strings | Integers | Booleans) so that the templates are usable and maintainable by …

Issue

Many development tools rely on the fact that git.exe is installed to perform source control operations e.g. VSCode. However, a common problem I have seen is that security settings on many corporate Windows devices do not allow the installation of git CLI using an MSI file by the user. VSCode is an approved …

Overview

After setting up a Logic App (Standard) Backend in Azure API Management (APIM) in my last post, I wanted to try and see if I could create a Swagger definition from a Standard Logic App which could then be used to simplify the API authoring process in APIM. This post shows my methods of doing so.

If you …