Using Azure Automation & PowerShell for Slack channel notifications
Details how you can trigger slack notifications from Azure Automation from any data source. For this example, I use a user controlled table in an Atlassian C...
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app services
Azure App Services announced
Microsoft announced Azure App Services today. This will definitely be a technology to watch to see how the future of BizTalk development may evolve. However ...
automation
Using Azure Automation & PowerShell for Slack channel notifications
Details how you can trigger slack notifications from Azure Automation from any data source. For this example, I use a user controlled table in an Atlassian C...
aws
A complete 180 in the tech stack
Details about my dramatic shift in tech stack learning.
azure
Lessons learnt from deploying Azure Search via CI-CD
Learn about how you can overcome some limitations when deploying Azure Search Service indexes via your CI/CD automation pipeline.
Using Azure Automation & PowerShell for Slack channel notifications
Details how you can trigger slack notifications from Azure Automation from any data source. For this example, I use a user controlled table in an Atlassian C...
Remote PowerShell via Azure Automation with Azure AD
So why use Azure Automation?
beginner
First Jekyll Blog Post!
Why I migrated to Jekyll from Ghost.
biztalk
BTDF in Visual Studio 2015
Workaround for getting BTDF to work with BizTalk 2016 and Visual Studio 2015. [UPDATE: This workaround is no longer required. BTDF is now updated]
Issue with BTDF not deploying to GAC in multi server installs
We utilise the BizTalk Deployment Framework (BTDF) for deploying our BizTalk applications. It is a very useful utility and would strongly recommend checking ...
Check BizTalk application references in BTDF via PowerShell
At most client sites we utilise the BizTalk Deployment Framework for packaging up and deploying our BizTalk applications and their associated artefacts (BAM,...
blog
Not long now
Getting ready for the birth of our second child which is due very soon!
btdf
BTDF in Visual Studio 2015
Workaround for getting BTDF to work with BizTalk 2016 and Visual Studio 2015. [UPDATE: This workaround is no longer required. BTDF is now updated]
Issue with BTDF not deploying to GAC in multi server installs
We utilise the BizTalk Deployment Framework (BTDF) for deploying our BizTalk applications. It is a very useful utility and would strongly recommend checking ...
Storing BizTalk application version via BTDF
The issue A few weeks ago I saw a very interesting Integration Monday talk session by Toon Vanhoutte which you can view here.
Check BizTalk application references in BTDF via PowerShell
At most client sites we utilise the BizTalk Deployment Framework for packaging up and deploying our BizTalk applications and their associated artefacts (BAM,...
deployment
Lessons learnt from deploying Azure Search via CI-CD
Learn about how you can overcome some limitations when deploying Azure Search Service indexes via your CI/CD automation pipeline.
family
Not long now
Getting ready for the birth of our second child which is due very soon!
gradle
A complete 180 in the tech stack
Details about my dramatic shift in tech stack learning.
hosts
32 or 64 bit Hosts in your BizTalk application?
A few days ago, a question was asked at the office about the 32 bit vs 64 bit options for our BizTalk Hosts.
java
Confluence 5.8.4 crashing unexpectedly?
We utilise Atlassian Confluence for our internal wiki.
jenkins
A complete 180 in the tech stack
Details about my dramatic shift in tech stack learning.
json
Lessons learnt from deploying Azure Search via CI-CD
Learn about how you can overcome some limitations when deploying Azure Search Service indexes via your CI/CD automation pipeline.
kubernetes
A complete 180 in the tech stack
Details about my dramatic shift in tech stack learning.
mum
Goodbye my mother
This is very hard one for me to write.
new zealand
Off to Microsoft Ignite in New Zealand!
This year Mexia are sending several co-workers and I to the Microsoft Ignite conference to be held in Auckland, New Zealand.
octopus
Guest Blog post - Linking Team City and Octopus Deploy
Check out a blog post covering TeamCity and Octopus Deploy that I wrote for the Deloitte site.
openshift
A complete 180 in the tech stack
Details about my dramatic shift in tech stack learning.
powershell
How to get PowerShellGet working with no Internet access
Assistance for setting up local PowerShellGet with no external internet access.
BTDF in Visual Studio 2015
Workaround for getting BTDF to work with BizTalk 2016 and Visual Studio 2015. [UPDATE: This workaround is no longer required. BTDF is now updated]
Storing BizTalk application version via BTDF
The issue A few weeks ago I saw a very interesting Integration Monday talk session by Toon Vanhoutte which you can view here.
Check BizTalk application references in BTDF via PowerShell
At most client sites we utilise the BizTalk Deployment Framework for packaging up and deploying our BizTalk applications and their associated artefacts (BAM,...
Remote PowerShell via Azure Automation with Azure AD
So why use Azure Automation?
Use PowerShell to enable or disable tracking for selected BizTalk Applications
For a current client project we are using the excellent BizTalk Deployment Framework for deploying our BizTalk applications. This works great, except it can ...
redhat
A complete 180 in the tech stack
Details about my dramatic shift in tech stack learning.
search
Lessons learnt from deploying Azure Search via CI-CD
Learn about how you can overcome some limitations when deploying Azure Search Service indexes via your CI/CD automation pipeline.
slack
Using Azure Automation & PowerShell for Slack channel notifications
Details how you can trigger slack notifications from Azure Automation from any data source. For this example, I use a user controlled table in an Atlassian C...
software
Visual Studio Code
Why I recommend Visual Studio Code as your main text editor.
sql
Optimising Confluence performance on SQL Server 2014
Internally we have a Confluence wiki for our knowledge base. Confluence is regarded as the market leader for wiki systems out there and we enjoy using it int...
teamcity
Guest Blog post - Linking Team City and Octopus Deploy
Check out a blog post covering TeamCity and Octopus Deploy that I wrote for the Deloitte site.
terraform
How to define output values for dynamically created terraform resources
Not sure how to get output details with for_each loop created terraform resources? Use the zipmap function.
One thing to do if AWS accounts are changed on your Terraform project
Getting puzzled by permissions issues when you change AWS accounts on an existing terraform project? See how to fix this issue quickly!
How to reference data objects via for_each with Terraform
See how you can easily reference more complex data types with the for_each command in Terraform.
A complete 180 in the tech stack
Details about my dramatic shift in tech stack learning.
workaround
How to get PowerShellGet working with no Internet access
Assistance for setting up local PowerShellGet with no external internet access.