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In this multi-post series I am going to look at what is required to take existing .NET Framework applications and bring them to Windows Containers.

With Meetup enforcing OAuth for clients consuming their API, let's take a look at how you add OAuth support to a Logic Apps custom connector.

Azure Availability Zones (AZs) are gradually rolling out around the globe, and a common question I see is what is the difference between the existing Azure Availability Set construct and the new Availability Zone construct?

For an upcoming demo I developed a small Azure Function written in Python, whose job it is to create a thumbnail image of a JPEG file.

The biggest challenge for an event this scale is finding the content you really want to catch up on as a developer.

The first ever Serverless Days ANZ event run on Friday September 4 and, boy, what a success it was!

In this post I am going to run through how Azure can provide all you need if you wanted to build an "event-in-a-box" service that you can use to host online events.

Over the last few years I've spent a lot of time focused on the serverless space having built one of the first Azure Functions backends in Australia that runs a consumer mobile app you might have used.

I've put together the following list which encompasses the smaller, sometimes interactive sessions that will be on offer.

A challenge the Azure Sydney User Group has been facing is providing access to presentations, etc, from our meetups so they are easily accessible to members and guests alike.

As demand for the Azure Sydney User Group and its content has grown over the last few years, and with the removal of features on Meetup such as file storage, the group organisers have been looking for a way to share content and provide an online location…

As I've spent much of the last eight years running, or being involved with, community events I thought I'd share some tips and insights I've gained over this time on what you need to consider for going online.

Let's dig into things a bit more and see how .NET's really in the best shape it's been in for ages!

This fortnight's episode of Red Dog for Dev will be the last one for 2019 and is coming in a bit hot as I've got a bunch of stuff on, but wanted to get something up for you all!

Thanks to UK-based Microsoft MVPs Gregor Suttie and Richard Hooper there is a great initiative through December 2019 that is doing 25 days of community-generated content...

Our quick demo is of building an Azure Logic App to sending notifications when new issues are opened on GitHub.

This fortnight's episode covers announcements coming out of Microsoft Ignite in Orlando that cover Azure API Management, Azure App Service and Azure Container Registry.

Starting today I'm going to be trying something new.

If you've been a meetup user or admin for the last couple of years then no doubt bots posting dodgy content on your Group's discussion boards...

In this post I'm going to look at what I think are the basics you need to know and show you a quick way to start working with Git without needing to install a bunch of tools.

In 2018 when I joined Microsoft Australia as the Azure Pro Developer Lead in Sydney one of the first things I worked on was building an engagement activity for event attendees at events we were sponsoring.

For this blog I'm going show you how you can use FFMPEG from an Azure Functino to create a thumbnail image from a video file.

In this post I'll look at how we can use Azure Logic Apps to publish new Meetup event information into Microsoft Teams, using Meetup's REST API as the data source.

This week I sat my first Microsoft certification exam in ten years.

If you attended the Global Azure Bootcamp in Sydney on April 27 and you are looking for content a speaker presented to then you should find it here.

For this session I used App Service's inbuilt CD offering, Kudu, which can use webhook triggers on GitHub, Git and Bitbucket repositories...

A short update from me on a couple of speaking slots I'm doing in April 2019 that might be of interest if you're in Sydney.

For this session I used App Service's inbuilt CD offering, Kudu, which can use webhook triggers on Github, Git and Bitbucket repositories...

In this post, and the associated screencast, I'll take a look at how we can utilise several of the capabilities of Azure Cognitive Services...

Microsoft Ignite | The Tour: Sydney is on February 13 and 14 and presents Australian developers with a massive opportunity to get deep technical guidance on how to build with Microsoft Azure.

You now have the choice to package Python Azure Functions using a pre-built template in Azure DevOps.

Today we're going to look at how you can migrate a static website hosted in AWS S3 to Azure's Storage Static Websites.

Today we're going to look at how you can migrate a static website hosted in AWS S3 to Azure's Storage Static Websites.

I've been working a lot with Python over the last few months and one piece of work I've spent quite a lot of time on is interfacing Python solutions with Cosmos DB.

I had great fun yesterday presenting at the Sydney Serverless Meetup on the currently in-preview support for Java on Azure Functions.

If you are getting started working with Azure you might come across a few key terms that it's important to have a good understanding of.

DDD Sydney, like Perth before it, didn't disappoint in its slick organisation and community-selected content.

This past weekend I was in Perth to attend DDD Perth as part of Microsoft's sponsorship and thought I'd write up my experience.

I'm super excited to let everyone know that from August 2018 I'll be joining Microsoft here in Australia as the Azure Pro Developer Lead.

I have previously deploy AKS in East US using the Azure Cloud Shell so didn't expect to run into any issues.

If you run in an environment where you need to track changes to Tags on Resource Groups in Azure then you may find this PowerShell snippet useful as code to drop into a Runbook.

Over the years that I've been talking with public groups on cloud services, and Azure in particular, I will typically have at least one person in every group...

In this post I'm going to walk through how you can debug JWT-protected APIs where those JWTs are being issued by AAD B2C.

Ihis post covers an approach you can use to deploy compiled C# Functions using the tooling available in Visual Studio 2017...

Over the last few years I've come to rely heavily on Application Insights as the primary Application Performance Management (APM) tool of choice for services I build.

I am currently transitioning some work to another team in our business.

When working with Azure Active Directory B2C you can create what are known as Custom Attributes...

Over the years I have always worked hard to make versioning a foundational piece of every CI / CD solution I've setup...

A bit of fun with a cool Linux Twitter client running on your Windows machine using Windows Subsystem for Linux.

I needed to provide an easy way to provision around 30 inter-related services that together constitute the hosting environment for single customer solution.