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My blog of techy stuff, ranging around SQL (SQL Server, that is), C# and .net, JavaScript and a smattering of stuff about the Orchard CMS (that powers my site) as I get more familiar with it. There's the occasional non-technical post when something is of interest to me that I feel is worth sharing, but they should be few and far between
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Learning about Azure
As I alluded to in My "Hit Refresh" moment post, I've been making a concerted effort over the past while to gain a better handle on all the things that Azure has to offer, how they hang together and …
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My "Hit Refresh" moment
This is Darcey, I've chosen a picture of her whipping me with her tail to accompany this post as (a) I like the picture, (b) Jeremiah had a pet picture, so I'm going to treat it as a pre-requisite, …
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Creating a site-to-site VPN between Azure and a Ubiquiti UniFi Security Gateway (USG)
I've recently been steadily working my way through some of the training material available for 70-534 (Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions), both by watching online training videos on Pluralsight …
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Link Dump
Image Carousel using Twitter Bootstrap and Orchard CMS Projections
This looks like it'll give me the solution I'm after to "beautify" the home page of my site slightly. At the moment it's a fairly …
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You can configure Azure/Office 365 to not require multi-factor authentication from your office
I've been working my way through the Architecting Azure Solutions (70-534): Infrastructure and Networking course on Pluralsight and discovered a useful nugget of information about the way you can …
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If you're sending email via Exchange Web Services, cache the service URL for a while!
In my recent series of posts about sending emails through Office 365 from an Azure Function, triggered by a blob being uploaded to Azure storage, I noted that:
because of the amount of time Office 36 …
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Creating an Azure function that triggers when a blob is uploaded - Publishing to Azure from Visual Studio 2017
Parts to this series:
Creating an Azure function that triggers when a blob is uploaded
Creating an Azure function that triggers when a blob is uploaded - Creating and running in Visual Studio 2017 …
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Creating an Azure function that triggers when a blob is uploaded - Sending an email via Office 365
Parts to this series:
Creating an Azure function that triggers when a blob is uploaded
Creating an Azure function that triggers when a blob is uploaded - Creating and running in Visual Studio 2017 …
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CsvHelper - a tidy package for working with CSV content
I needed to transform some CSV data recently and my Excel skills are somewhat lacking when it comes to the funky stuff, so I had a hunt around for a solution I could use to run up a quick and dirty …
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Creating an Azure function that triggers when a blob is uploaded - Creating and running in Visual Studio 2017
Parts to this series:
Creating an Azure function that triggers when a blob is uploaded
Creating an Azure function that triggers when a blob is uploaded - Creating and running in Visual Studio 2017 …