Variables and Parameters in Azure Pipelines When building a pipeline within Azure DevOps it can be frustrating trying to make use of variables or parameters that should be in scope for your step b...

When doing web development there are many occasions when I don’t know why an application has a dependency on a particular npm library that is not directly referenced in the package.json file but I ...

Having recently migrated my blog from Wordpress.com over to a self hosted Jekyll based site this post will cover the steps taken to achieve this and why I migrated. This blog has been on wordpress...

I recently had a problem installing a homebrew package on my MacBook, that was related to the version of CURL on the device. Problem Attempting to install the Azure CLI via homebrew using the u...

Sometimes you need to find out what packages a .Net Core project or solution depends on quickly and whilst you can find this information in the Visual Studio IDE or by opening the project files ind...

Having recently needed to produce a shared JavaScript npm package for internal sharing of functionality between applications I naively failed to consider the impact of the various competing module ...

If when server side rendering a React application (other JS frameworks are available) that makes use of the global window object during the initial render, or perhaps the global document object, th...

I recently found error responses from a Node JS microservice with HTTP error “431 Request Header Fields Too Large” but at first it seemed to be intermittent dependent on the test environment being ...

My first computer was a Sinclair ZX Spectrum (16k) with rubber keys which is an icon of the innovative 1980’s micro computer market. On it I learned to code in Sinclair Basic either by reading t...

I admit I was not too impressed with the early beta versions of Windows Terminal, maybe because I use Cmder as my daily terminal driver and its features are excellent. However since Windows Termina...

Quick post to let you and ‘future me’ know that Visual Studio 2019 includes the option to use VS Code keyboard mappings out of the box. As someone who has been using VS Code as my development envir...

I recently had a situation where I needed to include a utility controller and set of operations into every .Net Core Web API that used a common in-house framework. The idea being that by baking thi...

In the previous post about how to hibernate your Ubuntu machine I touched on the concept of creating a desktop shortcut for the hibernate command to make it easy to run the command. That post can b...

Personally I prefer to hibernate all my machines instead of shut them down as I find it more efficient being able to carry on from where I left off than to start a fresh. One annoyance with my Ubun...

Having run Ubuntu on my Dell XPS 14z for years I have been increasingly plagued by an intermittent freezing problem which causes the UI to freeze (mouse still movable) for anything from 5 to 30 s...

Shift code quality analysis to the left by moving your static analysis from the CI/CD pipeline to the developers IDE where possible. In this post I cover what we did, how to set up Sonar Lint and h...

Whilst looking a simple way to auto increment an application build version number for a small React JavaScript application I found a neat solution so I’m sharing it here for others to use (and for ...

Following a tricky upgrade to a Jenkins server it was found that the server was no longer able to communicate with the Git server, although SSH access with private keys was stil working correctly. ...

As someone with a long commute I find Podcasts a great way of keeping up to date with technology (as well as other things) and it helps me feel that my commute time is not wasted. Over the years ...

I’ve recently ran into an error in a Jenkins CI/CD pipeline when using java.util.Date objects in my Groovy script pipeline and so I’d thought I’d share the problem and workaround. Problem In orde...

I have a small Web Application site (running ASP.net Core) hosted on Microsoft Azure under a shared plan. Azure shared plans are budget friendly whilst providing features like custom domain names. ...

Having recently migrated a Windows Azure hosted .Net Framework ASP.net MVC 5 web application over to ASP.net Core (v2.2) I hit a few issues so I’m documenting them here for my future self and anyon...

Usually during web development you want to run your web code locally via a local development web server and there are many options for this. In fact most development workflows provide this function...

Internet Explorer Compatibility mode is a feature of IE that allows you to choose to render sites that targeted older versions of IE when they were developed. It essentially pretends to be IE 8 dur...

One of the things that makes Visual Studio Code (VSCode) such a great editor is the many extensions that have been built for it. Extensions in VSCode are explained here. As a reference for myself w...