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Don't Mind the Dust
Please don’t mind the dust while I move providers. I am moving from my WordPress based site to a Jekyll based site. This will simplify content management for me because I like to use a plain text editor. WordPress was just a bit much and the hosted WordPress didn’t give me the control I wanted over the site layout. So, here we go…
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Why Azure Iot Hub?
One of my favorite things about cloud services in general and Azure (my world) in particular is the wealth of options for quickly creating message based architectures. In Azure we can use Service Bus, Event Hubs, Event Grid, and more to manage our messages and easily consume them using our traditional sorts of applications or easy to use services like Azure Logic Apps or Azure Functions.
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A Few Tips for Azure Resource Manager Templates
Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates are often looked upon as some sort of magic voodoo. People who use them every day often have a limited understanding of them and this leads to doing things the hard way. The users aren’t always to blame, the documentation is often terse (at best) and features change quickly. In particular, mid-2017 saw a few critical features appear that really improve their usability in a few cases. I’m not going to try to completely solve the knowledge gap or try to create a comprehensive set of guidelines. Instead, I’ll point you to a few things that have been useful for me or helped me get to that “click” moment where they stopped looking like a blob of json and started looking like a language.
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Don't Repeat Yourself x3
Don’t Repeat Yourself. DRY. It’s an oft repeated axiom among software developers but do we apply it broadly enough? Where we do apply it, do we apply it too aggressively? Today I’ll look at this fine old acronym three different ways: Avoid repeating code, Avoid making the same decisions, and avoid doing work over again.
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I spoke at CNUG Tonight
I spoke at the Chicago .Net Users Group in Downer’s Grove, IL on the topic of Azure planning tonight. I didn’t get to the entire slide deck that I hoped to because there were lots of questions and there was a ton of material to get through (I could speak for a day on Azure probably).
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