Development Remote development with VSCode The @code team shimmied down my chimney really early this year with a awesome present! Finally, I can use my WSL and containerized environments for development in VSCode (also SSH, but thus far hasn't been my need). Introducing Remote Development for @code 🚀💻🛰️ A new set of extensions that
Application Insights Instrumenting Ghost with Application Insights Track Ghost requests, performance, exceptions, dependency calls,etc with Application Insights using a custom Docker image.
Personal Understand limitations, then break them Don't let the Minecraft theme fool you - read through and see why we all need to challenge limitations. In a fun way ;)
Docker Docker multi-stage build + Azure Artifacts = true Problem: When running tasks like dotnet restore inside a Docker multi-stage build, it will fail if nuget.config refers to a Azure Artifacts feed due to 401 - Unauthorized. If using the built-in Azure DevOps tasks for restoring packages, this is taken care for you - once you do this
Azure AD Add scopes to Azure AD via Azure CLI So, in the world of efficiency and automation, clickety-clack in the Azure Portal is not where you want to be - no matter how much of a mouse ninja you are. You want to be able to quickly do things via repeatable scripts and whatnot so that we take the
Azure AD Setting up Azure AD Application for authentication An Azure AD Application is basically just a entry in Azure AD saying: "I am application A, I offer certain roles and permissions that can be assigned to users and I would like Azure AD to handle the authentication".
Docker Running MongoDb in Docker with authentication This is mostly a "note to self" kind of thing as I keep having to look up how to run MongoDb with authentication enabled for local development. The easy way is to specify two environment variables: * MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_USERNAME * MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_PASSWORD However, this will give
Docker Docker build and Azure Artifacts Azure Artifacts allows you to host your own NuGet-feed, which is great, but it introduces a slight complexity in the form of authentication and building Docker images. Azure DevOps' tasks for restoring packages will handle this for you as well as dotnet restore locally will re-use your own credentials.
Automation Blast from the past: Using Makefile for development tasks Makefiles are nothing new; they have been around since +/- forever. But since I'm currently enjoying the wonderful combination of Windows 10 + WSL I get the best of both worlds and feel my workflow has improved greatly with availability of tools on both platforms. One of those tools
