solrevdev tech radar

On my Ubuntu disco dingo laptop, There was a bug affecting VS Code’s IntelliSense that I had just been putting up with for a good few days.

A recent push to production broke an ASP.NET Core application I have running and it took me a while to find out the underlying problem.

This is something I have had to do before so I am blogging here for next time.

Using System.CommandLine to build a command line application.

HTTPS/SSL via this GitHub Pages site with Fly.io For a while now anything I host on Amazon Web Services I use Amazon’s fantastic certificate manager to generate an SSL certificate on my behalf for free then associate that with an Elastic Load Balancer ens…

How to force HTTPS / SSL on ASP.NET websites behind AWS ELB I love HTTPS / SSL and think that all websites should be served this way.

An issue I had a while back was a development lab version of Microsoft Windows Server 2012 locking me out via RDP or any other means due to RDP licensing and a grace period expiring.

I am upgrading a project to use Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition and one of the updates it recommends was not installing with an error relating to the Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 update.

I do have a blog post roadmap but each post idea does involve a level of research and thought and seeing as it is 2:30am here in the UK and lets just say I wanted a quick post created on my mobile phone involving little thinking.

I have been extremely busy recently with, well, pretty much everything, including this week’s marathon training schedule on top of caring for mum and an upcoming visit to the Oxord John Radcliffe hospital with her.

In order to save some cash after seeing some recurring Google invoices for their nearline storage buckets prompted me to realise that I was paying for storage that was essentially just a test of what I at the time considered to be a match for Amazon’s S3…

In my last post I tweeted out a link about me using a custom IsRunninOnMono() method and enjoying using the Service Stack library with Xamarin on a Mac to develop on.

Since I decided to move away from Microsoft Windows with the purchase of my Macbook Pro around 4 years go I have been a big fan of not having to spin up a virtual machine with Windows on just to run Microsoft Visual Studio.

I am a big fan of the ServiceStack OrmLite framework.

I had planned to crack open the laptop but after a day of looking after my mum, fighting with the first instance of malware on my Macbook Pro and a tiring kettlebell session I am pleased that I managed to get some refreshing sleep instead.

So, when I am at my laptop I can draft a blog post using my text editor of choice using the markdown markup language and git commit the file to git.

So, I have had a blog for quite a long time and have hosted it on various platforms such as Posterous, Passle, Amazon AWS S3 and finally ended up on Blogger.

So this is just a little placeholder for a blog post I want to write about my transition from being a full-time developer and DevOps guy into being a full-time carer for my elderly mother and my brother who had a stroke.

I must have one of these…

Rob Conery has posted a video and a blog post explaining one the cooler features of the new Subsonic 3.0 ORM product which is the Simple Repository that can also create the database schema on the fly as you drive out the domain model of your application.

Today at the Gym I caught up with some podcasts and listened to Hanselminutes Podcast 170 – Kanban Boards for Agile Project Management with Zen Author Nate Kohari.

Mike Ormand has uploaded the videos for the ASP.NET MVC session that I went to in Reading the other week.

I hope all these are true as I have been holding off installing the time restricted beta’s and release candidates in favour of installing the real thing… Windows 7 rumoured to be ready for RTM Reports: Windows 7 heads to RTM July 13 Will Windows 7 be fina…

I mentioned in my last post about BBC’s Glow framework source code being hosted with Git/GitHub.

Surprisingly the BBC have released an open source JavaScript library called Glow.

The more I use jQuery the more I like it but one thing that would really help is intellisense in Visual Studio.

I’m off to Microsoft in Reading on Friday to see the ASP.NET MVC session by Scott Guthrie.

Jet Brains have a minor point release to one of my favourite productivity tools ReSharper.

A new web browser has arrived.

http://www.cafepress.com/cp/customize/designer.aspx?

Today I started to build a new website and have been given the design from the graphic designer along with all the images that are needed to build the site.

On a project I worked on recently the team used the SCRUM methodology for building the software.

I've just finished reading a couple of fantastic articles written by Billy McCafferty that cover ASP.NET MVC, NHibernate and Spring.

The company credit card has been dusted off again and this time to upgrade my ReSharper license from the older 2.x version to the new 4.x version.

The Windows Sysinternals team create a superb suite of system administration utilities which you would normally download and install onto your local machine.

I write ASP.NET code most of the time and do so with Microsoft Visual Studio.NET 2003/2005/2008 and it has become really tiresome to add the runat="server" tag all the time!