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    .NET

  • Mar 27, 2025 From Idea to NuGet: My Journey to Publishing a .NET Open Source Library
  • Feb 19, 2025 Restoring a Private .NET NuGet Feed: Troubleshooting Unauthorized Access Errors
  • Feb 8, 2025 Simplifying Event Grid Publishing: A Lightweight Wrapper for Cleaner Code and Easier Testing
  • Feb 7, 2025 Mocking TelemetryClient in Application Insights: A Simple Workaround
  • Aug 27, 2018 Using Custom Dimensions in Application Insights Analytics
  • Jan 12, 2018 ZXing QR Code Display in Xamarin.Forms
  • Jan 2, 2018 Easy Hack to get a .NET Standard REST API
  • Jan 2, 2018 Generating a REST API in Visual Studio with the many flavors of .NET
  • Feb 3, 2017 Installing .NET Core Preview 2.1 on Ubuntu Linux 16.10 Yakkety
  • May 11, 2010 .NET Framework vs. Silverlight Minimum System Requirements
  • Mar 1, 2010 Entity Framework Missing in VS2010 RC?
  • Feb 16, 2010 Experiencing an AddressFilter mismatch when deploying a service to Windows Azure
  • Feb 12, 2010 Silverlight & WCF Service Reference Weirdness
  • Sep 2, 2009 Multi-Page Document Generation with XPS Part I: The Problem
  • Sep 1, 2009 In Memory File Attachments to MailMessage
  • AAD B2C

  • Jun 22, 2022 Adventures in AAD B2C with UWP WinUI 3 SDK: Part 4
  • Jun 21, 2022 Adventures in AAD B2C with UWP WinUI 3 SDK: Part 3
  • Jun 20, 2022 Adventures in AAD B2C with UWP WinUI 3 SDK: Part 2
  • Jun 17, 2022 Adventures in AAD B2C with UWP WinUI 3 SDK: Part 1
  • Jun 17, 2022 Adventures in AAD B2C with UWP WinUI 3 SDK: Part 1
  • Dec 2, 2017 Azure AD B2C Error Code: AADSTS50011 Tip: Don't botch the Reply Address
  • Dec 1, 2017 Azure Active Directory B2C Global Administrator can't login to B2C tenant app
  • Nov 11, 2017 Setting up and Managing Azure Active Directory B2C: The Complete Guide to Azure Portal Weirdness
  • Nov 10, 2017 AspNetCore.TestHost + Azure Active Directory (Part II)
  • Nov 9, 2017 Azure AD B2C Tip: Make sure you explicitly grant permissions between apps with delegated permissions
  • Nov 8, 2017 Enable Swagger to authenticate against Azure AD (Revised)
  • Nov 7, 2017 AspNetCore.TestHost + Azure Active Directory (Part I)
  • Oct 8, 2017 Swagger UI authentication with Azure AD B2C on Service Fabric .NET Core
  • Sep 29, 2017 Xamarin.Forms with Azure AD B2C
  • ADX

  • Feb 15, 2025 Kusto Chronicles: Turning Your Mutable Cosmos DB Data into an Immutable Audit Trail
  • AI

  • Nov 22, 2024 Unlocking Content Creation with Azure Cognitive Speech-to-Text and OpenAI
  • APIM

  • Feb 20, 2025 Automating Azure API Management Policies with Terraform
  • ASP.NET

  • Dec 4, 2017 Attaching the Bearer Token to Claims Identity in ASP.NET Core to implement On-Behalf-Of Flow
  • Nov 1, 2012 SortDescription values null using Kendo UI and ASP.NET MVC3
  • AT-AT

  • Dec 27, 2024 Terraforming Beyond Infrastructure: GitHub AT-AT v1.0.10 and Application Lifecycle Management
  • Dec 26, 2024 GitHub AT-AT Now Supports Active-Active Azure Functions Scenario
  • Dec 24, 2024 Rethinking the GitHub AT-AT Design: Balancing Simplicity and Extensibility for the Future
  • Dec 23, 2024 Effortless Azure Terraforming with GitHub AT-AT v1.0.7: A Step-by-Step Setup Guide
  • Dec 22, 2024 Unleashing the Power of GitFlow: GitHub AT-AT v1.0.7 Refines Terraform Automation
  • Dec 21, 2024 Unlocking the Power of Terraform: How the GitHub AT-AT is Evolving to Simplify Multi-Environment Automation
  • Dec 6, 2024 Meet the New GitHub AT-AT: Automate the Automation with Terraform, GitHub Edition
  • Nov 18, 2024 Destroy-Time Failures when Terraforming GitHub
  • Agile

  • Oct 2, 2017 Tips for Trello: How to use Kanban more effectively
  • Mar 8, 2017 What Makes a Good Leader
  • Nov 26, 2016 An Agile Team's Progression Through the Stages of Team Development
  • Sep 23, 2016 Confidence Vote: Everybody Votes
  • Sep 22, 2016 What is Commitment?
  • Sep 21, 2016 Checkbox Scrum Roles
  • Sep 14, 2016 Conversations about Forming an Agile Team: Part II
  • Sep 13, 2016 Conversations about Forming an Agile Team: Part III
  • Sep 12, 2016 Conversations about Forming an Agile Team: Part I
  • Sep 11, 2016 Plan in the Same Room
  • Application Insights

  • Feb 9, 2025 Application Insights is Working — So Why Does the Azure Portal Make Me Feel Otherwise?
  • Aspire

  • Apr 18, 2025 Kicking the Tires on Aspire: A First-Timer’s Experience
  • AuthN

  • Jun 22, 2022 Adventures in AAD B2C with UWP WinUI 3 SDK: Part 4
  • Jun 21, 2022 Adventures in AAD B2C with UWP WinUI 3 SDK: Part 3
  • Jun 20, 2022 Adventures in AAD B2C with UWP WinUI 3 SDK: Part 2
  • Jun 17, 2022 Adventures in AAD B2C with UWP WinUI 3 SDK: Part 1
  • Jun 17, 2022 Adventures in AAD B2C with UWP WinUI 3 SDK: Part 1
  • Dec 4, 2017 Attaching the Bearer Token to Claims Identity in ASP.NET Core to implement On-Behalf-Of Flow
  • Dec 2, 2017 Azure AD B2C Error Code: AADSTS50011 Tip: Don't botch the Reply Address
  • Dec 1, 2017 Azure Active Directory B2C Global Administrator can't login to B2C tenant app
  • Nov 11, 2017 Setting up and Managing Azure Active Directory B2C: The Complete Guide to Azure Portal Weirdness
  • Nov 10, 2017 AspNetCore.TestHost + Azure Active Directory (Part II)
  • Nov 9, 2017 Azure AD B2C Tip: Make sure you explicitly grant permissions between apps with delegated permissions
  • Nov 8, 2017 Enable Swagger to authenticate against Azure AD (Revised)
  • Nov 7, 2017 AspNetCore.TestHost + Azure Active Directory (Part I)
  • Oct 8, 2017 Swagger UI authentication with Azure AD B2C on Service Fabric .NET Core
  • Sep 29, 2017 Xamarin.Forms with Azure AD B2C
  • Azure

  • Apr 4, 2025 Enabling Entra ID Authentication on Linux Virtual Machines
  • Mar 26, 2025 OpenAI RAG Cost Breakdown and Reflections
  • Mar 17, 2025 ELI5: Understanding Cosmos DB
  • Feb 21, 2025 Cosmos DB Drift: A Terraform Dilemma
  • Feb 20, 2025 Automating Azure API Management Policies with Terraform
  • Feb 17, 2025 Secure Azure Service Bus with Private Endpoints & DNS Best Practices
  • Feb 16, 2025 Taming the Configuration Chaos: Merging Azure Functions App Settings to Optimize Terraform Code for Maintainability
  • Feb 15, 2025 Kusto Chronicles: Turning Your Mutable Cosmos DB Data into an Immutable Audit Trail
  • Feb 14, 2025 Configuring User-Assigned Managed Identities for Azure Functions and Cosmos DB
  • Feb 12, 2025 Terraforming Cosmos DB at Scale: A Blueprint for Enterprise Success
  • Feb 10, 2025 Terraform vs. ClickOps: The Hidden Churn of Python Azure Functions
  • Feb 9, 2025 Application Insights is Working — So Why Does the Azure Portal Make Me Feel Otherwise?
  • Feb 8, 2025 Simplifying Event Grid Publishing: A Lightweight Wrapper for Cleaner Code and Easier Testing
  • Azure AD

  • Mar 31, 2025 The Underrated Power of the azuread Terraform Provider
  • Azure API Management

  • Mar 8, 2020 Azure Functions + EventGrid Subscriptions With Terraform
  • Feb 9, 2020 Using Terraform to Provision Microservices with Azure API Management Backed by Azure Functions
  • Feb 8, 2020 Azure API Management Backend Management with PowerShell
  • Nov 10, 2019 Azure Serverless Architecture Automation with Terraform Explained
  • Nov 9, 2019 Challenges using Terraform with Azure Serverless Architecture
  • Azure Active Directory

  • Aug 28, 2019 Configuring AzureAD provider in Terraform to manage App Registrations
  • Azure App Service

  • Sep 16, 2024 Upgrading to Azure Terraform v4.0 - How to Handle Deprecated Resources
  • Azure DevOps

  • Mar 20, 2025 Terraforming Azure DevOps: Importing a Build Definitions
  • Dec 16, 2024 Breaking the Cycle of Fragility: Setting Up Unit Tests and Code Coverage in Azure DevOps…Yet Again
  • Mar 27, 2020 Setting up Key Vault secured Pipelines with Azure DevOps
  • Mar 22, 2020 Improving CosmosDB Test Automation Reliability with Retry Logic
  • Mar 21, 2020 Cosmos DB Emulator on Azure DevOps
  • Dec 24, 2019 Terraform + Azure DevOps Environment Variable Piping Tips
  • Azure Event Grid

  • Jan 7, 2025 Nets Are Overrated: Spearfishing Your Way to Serverless Microservices on Azure
  • Jan 6, 2025 Azure Event Grid Trigger Functions’ Two-Step Tango: Why One ‘Terraform Apply’ Isn’t Enough
  • Jan 5, 2025 GitHub AT-AT v1.0.19 Release Notes: Target Event-Driven Microservices toil — fire at will! For the glory of the Automation Empire!
  • Jan 4, 2025 From Pandemonium to PubSub: Taming .NET 8 Azure Functions and Event Grid with Terraform
  • Azure Front Door

  • Jan 25, 2025 Troubleshooting Azure Front Door: Custom Domain Stuck in Pending
  • Azure Functions

  • Feb 16, 2025 Taming the Configuration Chaos: Merging Azure Functions App Settings to Optimize Terraform Code for Maintainability
  • Feb 14, 2025 Configuring User-Assigned Managed Identities for Azure Functions and Cosmos DB
  • Feb 10, 2025 Terraform vs. ClickOps: The Hidden Churn of Python Azure Functions
  • Feb 4, 2025 The Scourge of the Missing Azure Functions: [Mis-]Adventures in .NET 8.0 Linux Azure Function Apps
  • Jan 7, 2025 Nets Are Overrated: Spearfishing Your Way to Serverless Microservices on Azure
  • Jan 6, 2025 Azure Event Grid Trigger Functions’ Two-Step Tango: Why One ‘Terraform Apply’ Isn’t Enough
  • Jan 5, 2025 GitHub AT-AT v1.0.19 Release Notes: Target Event-Driven Microservices toil — fire at will! For the glory of the Automation Empire!
  • Jan 4, 2025 From Pandemonium to PubSub: Taming .NET 8 Azure Functions and Event Grid with Terraform
  • Dec 26, 2024 GitHub AT-AT Now Supports Active-Active Azure Functions Scenario
  • Mar 8, 2020 Azure Functions + EventGrid Subscriptions With Terraform
  • Feb 9, 2020 Using Terraform to Provision Microservices with Azure API Management Backed by Azure Functions
  • Azure Storage

  • Jan 3, 2025 Mastering Last Mile Configuration Automation — Part 3: Terraform Takes Over
  • Jan 2, 2025 Mastering Last Mile Configuration Automation — Part 2: Let’s Bake a Packer Image
  • Jan 1, 2025 Mastering Last Mile Configuration Automation — Part 1: Understanding the Architecture
  • Blogging

  • Dec 29, 2024 Ruby 3.4.0 vs. My Jekyll Workflow: How Ignored Warnings Came Back to Bite Me
  • Dec 15, 2024 One-Shot: Azure Static Websites with Custom Domains Using Terraform
  • Dec 13, 2024 Medium Rare: The Case for Reviving an API That’s Still Half-Baked
  • Oct 26, 2024 Setup Google Analytics on your Jekyll Static Web Site
  • Oct 24, 2024 Automating Jekyll with Terraform: A Serverless Approach to Static Site Hosting on Azure
  • Books

  • Sep 1, 2018 Reading List: How to Win Friends and Influence People
  • Aug 31, 2018 Reading List: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
  • C#

  • Mar 27, 2025 From Idea to NuGet: My Journey to Publishing a .NET Open Source Library
  • Feb 8, 2025 Simplifying Event Grid Publishing: A Lightweight Wrapper for Cleaner Code and Easier Testing
  • Feb 7, 2025 Mocking TelemetryClient in Application Insights: A Simple Workaround
  • Jan 6, 2025 Azure Event Grid Trigger Functions’ Two-Step Tango: Why One ‘Terraform Apply’ Isn’t Enough
  • Jan 5, 2025 GitHub AT-AT v1.0.19 Release Notes: Target Event-Driven Microservices toil — fire at will! For the glory of the Automation Empire!
  • Jan 4, 2025 From Pandemonium to PubSub: Taming .NET 8 Azure Functions and Event Grid with Terraform
  • Dec 19, 2024 Unit Tests and Code Coverage in GitHub Actions: A Developer’s Guide to Streamlining .NET Workflows
  • Dec 16, 2024 Breaking the Cycle of Fragility: Setting Up Unit Tests and Code Coverage in Azure DevOps…Yet Again
  • Jul 2, 2024 Dispose Done Right: Avoiding Common Pitfalls in .NET Resource Management
  • Jun 22, 2022 Adventures in AAD B2C with UWP WinUI 3 SDK: Part 4
  • Jun 21, 2022 Adventures in AAD B2C with UWP WinUI 3 SDK: Part 3
  • Jun 20, 2022 Adventures in AAD B2C with UWP WinUI 3 SDK: Part 2
  • Jun 17, 2022 Adventures in AAD B2C with UWP WinUI 3 SDK: Part 1
  • Dec 4, 2017 Attaching the Bearer Token to Claims Identity in ASP.NET Core to implement On-Behalf-Of Flow
  • Mar 9, 2017 Setting up Swagger in ASP.NET Core
  • Feb 28, 2017 Entity Framework + LocalDB Connection String Changes
  • Feb 5, 2017 Installing .NET Core on Raspberry Pi 3
  • Feb 4, 2017 Raspberry Pi Zero Review
  • Feb 3, 2017 Installing .NET Core Preview 2.1 on Ubuntu Linux 16.10 Yakkety
  • Dec 18, 2016 Code Drop: TripleA for Windows 10
  • Dec 10, 2016 Playing with WPF Custom Panels
  • Dec 1, 2016 Hidden XAML Feature: Dependency Properties on Converters
  • Nov 21, 2016 BackgroundDownloader in MVVM
  • Nov 9, 2016 TripleA for UWP: Cross-Platform Turn-Based Strategy Game
  • Sep 9, 2016 HoloLens: Deploying (and remotely debugging) a Blank UWP App Over Wireless
  • Sep 8, 2016 Raspberry Pi 2 and Windows IoT Core: Getting Started with Blinky
  • Sep 2, 2009 Multi-Page Document Generation with XPS Part I: The Problem
  • Sep 1, 2009 In Memory File Attachments to MailMessage
  • Career Milestones

  • Dec 31, 2024 2024 Year in Review: Terraforming My Way Through Microsoft, HashiCorp, YouTube, and Beyond
  • Oct 18, 2024 HashiConf 2024: Inside Look from a HashiCorp Ambassador
  • May 23, 2022 New at Microsoft! Returning to my engineering roots!
  • Aug 10, 2018 Bangalore Terraform Training: It's a wrap!
  • Dec 8, 2015 Goodbye Avanade!!! Hello, Harman!!!
  • Certifications

  • Nov 20, 2016 AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Part IX: Miscellaneous
  • Nov 19, 2016 AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Part VIII: Route53
  • Nov 18, 2016 AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Part VII: ELB
  • Nov 17, 2016 AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Part VI: S3
  • Nov 16, 2016 AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Part V: EBS
  • Nov 15, 2016 AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Part IV: EC2
  • Nov 14, 2016 AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Part III: VPC Access & VPC Peering
  • Nov 8, 2016 AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Part II: Security Groups & NACLs
  • Nov 8, 2016 AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Part I: VPC
  • Nov 8, 2016 AWS Fundamentals for System Administrators: A Comprehensive Overview
  • Cloud Migration

  • Nov 22, 2016 So you wanna be multi-tenant...
  • Cloudflare

  • Nov 14, 2024 Setup Office 365 Custom Domain with CloudFlare Terraform Provider
  • Nov 13, 2024 Managing DNS on CloudFlare with Terraform
  • Code Quality

  • Dec 4, 2024 6 Critical Terraform Resource Formatting Tips Everyone Should Know
  • Code Reviews

  • Nov 6, 2024 The Philosophy of Code Reviews: Building Better Software Together
  • Nov 4, 2024 Fundamentals of Writing Robust Code
  • Nov 3, 2024 Testing Like a Pro: Strategies for Reliable Code
  • Cognitive Services

  • Nov 4, 2019 Azure Speech API is a game changer
  • Configuration Management

  • Mar 14, 2024 The Who’s Who of the Azure Configuration Management Landscape
  • Cosmos DB

  • Mar 17, 2025 ELI5: Understanding Cosmos DB
  • Feb 21, 2025 Cosmos DB Drift: A Terraform Dilemma
  • Feb 15, 2025 Kusto Chronicles: Turning Your Mutable Cosmos DB Data into an Immutable Audit Trail
  • Feb 12, 2025 Terraforming Cosmos DB at Scale: A Blueprint for Enterprise Success
  • CosmosDB

  • Feb 3, 2025 Terraforming Cosmos DB Access Control: ARM Role Definitions (and Their Not-So-Evil Twin)
  • Dec 18, 2024 Exploring the Potential of Cosmos DB Serverless
  • Mar 22, 2020 Improving CosmosDB Test Automation Reliability with Retry Logic
  • Mar 21, 2020 Cosmos DB Emulator on Azure DevOps
  • Nov 10, 2019 Azure Serverless Architecture Automation with Terraform Explained
  • Nov 9, 2019 Challenges using Terraform with Azure Serverless Architecture
  • Sep 27, 2017 Getting Started with CosmosDB
  • Databricks

  • Dec 9, 2024 Terraforming Azure Databricks Part 3: Automating Workflows with Notebooks and Jobs
  • Dec 8, 2024 Terraforming Azure Databricks Part 2: Unlocking Unity Catalog and Provisioning Clusters
  • Dec 7, 2024 Mastering Terraform for Azure Databricks: Building Your Foundation
  • Day 2 Ops

  • Feb 11, 2025 How ChatGPT Eliminated Toil from My Terraform Workflow
  • Jan 22, 2025 Why Day 2 Ops Must Be Front and Center to Succeed with Infrastructure-as-Code
  • Docker

  • Dec 8, 2016 How to Sterilize your Docker Host
  • Entity Framework

  • Mar 1, 2010 Entity Framework Missing in VS2010 RC?
  • Entra ID

  • Apr 4, 2025 Enabling Entra ID Authentication on Linux Virtual Machines
  • Mar 31, 2025 The Underrated Power of the azuread Terraform Provider
  • Nov 11, 2024 Terraform Entra ID Saves the Day by automating External User Invitations for Hack-a-Thon Tenant
  • Nov 10, 2024 Democratizing Group Management in Entra ID: Individual Ownership with ‘ReadWrite.Mine’ Permissions
  • EventGrid

  • Feb 8, 2025 Simplifying Event Grid Publishing: A Lightweight Wrapper for Cleaner Code and Easier Testing
  • Mar 8, 2020 Azure Functions + EventGrid Subscriptions With Terraform
  • Nov 10, 2019 Azure Serverless Architecture Automation with Terraform Explained
  • Nov 9, 2019 Challenges using Terraform with Azure Serverless Architecture
  • FinOps

  • Mar 26, 2025 OpenAI RAG Cost Breakdown and Reflections
  • Nov 17, 2024 Why Does My New Microsoft 365 Account Have Two Identical Billing Accounts?
  • Nov 16, 2024 Azure Billing Labyrinth: How My ‘Startup Experiment’ Spawned a Tale of Two Accounts and Zero Subscriptions
  • Game Development

  • Dec 18, 2016 Code Drop: TripleA for Windows 10
  • GitFlow

  • Dec 27, 2024 Terraforming Beyond Infrastructure: GitHub AT-AT v1.0.10 and Application Lifecycle Management
  • Dec 26, 2024 GitHub AT-AT Now Supports Active-Active Azure Functions Scenario
  • Dec 24, 2024 Rethinking the GitHub AT-AT Design: Balancing Simplicity and Extensibility for the Future
  • Dec 23, 2024 Effortless Azure Terraforming with GitHub AT-AT v1.0.7: A Step-by-Step Setup Guide
  • Dec 22, 2024 Unleashing the Power of GitFlow: GitHub AT-AT v1.0.7 Refines Terraform Automation
  • Dec 21, 2024 Unlocking the Power of Terraform: How the GitHub AT-AT is Evolving to Simplify Multi-Environment Automation
  • Dec 6, 2024 Meet the New GitHub AT-AT: Automate the Automation with Terraform, GitHub Edition
  • GitHub

  • Jan 29, 2025 Azure AI Foundry: Where Dreams Go to Deploy… and Die Trying
  • Jan 26, 2025 Ditch Unnecessary Abstractions, Embrace a Direct Hands-On Approach to automating Azure OpenAI with Terraform
  • Jan 23, 2025 GitHub AT-AT v1.0.23: Crafting VM-Based GitOps with Packer — No Redstone Required!
  • GitHub Actions

  • Dec 27, 2024 Terraforming Beyond Infrastructure: GitHub AT-AT v1.0.10 and Application Lifecycle Management
  • Dec 26, 2024 GitHub AT-AT Now Supports Active-Active Azure Functions Scenario
  • Dec 24, 2024 Rethinking the GitHub AT-AT Design: Balancing Simplicity and Extensibility for the Future
  • Dec 23, 2024 Effortless Azure Terraforming with GitHub AT-AT v1.0.7: A Step-by-Step Setup Guide
  • Dec 22, 2024 Unleashing the Power of GitFlow: GitHub AT-AT v1.0.7 Refines Terraform Automation
  • Dec 21, 2024 Unlocking the Power of Terraform: How the GitHub AT-AT is Evolving to Simplify Multi-Environment Automation
  • Dec 19, 2024 Unit Tests and Code Coverage in GitHub Actions: A Developer’s Guide to Streamlining .NET Workflows
  • Dec 17, 2024 From Code to Cloud: Automating NuGet Package Publishing with GitHub Actions
  • Dec 6, 2024 Meet the New GitHub AT-AT: Automate the Automation with Terraform, GitHub Edition
  • Dec 2, 2024 GitHub Actions And The Case of the Missing Environment: Part 3— The Dummy Job Solution
  • Dec 1, 2024 GitHub Actions And The Case of the Missing Environment: Part 2 — The Reusable Workflow Conundrum
  • Nov 30, 2024 Making GitHub Actions Workflows More Modular and Efficient: A Deep Dive into My Setup
  • Grafana

  • Oct 5, 2024 Automating Grafana Dashboards on Azure with Terraform — Part 4: Creating an Azure DevOps Pipeline for Multiple Terraform Stacks
  • Oct 4, 2024 Automating Grafana Dashboards on Azure with Terraform — Part 3: Automating Dashboards with the Grafana Terraform Provider
  • Oct 2, 2024 Automating Grafana Dashboards on Azure with Terraform — Part 2: Setting Up Just-in-Time Authentication with the Grafana Terraform Provider
  • Oct 1, 2024 Automating Grafana Dashboards on Azure with Terraform — Part 1: Provisioning an Azure Managed Grafana Instance
  • HashiConf

  • Oct 18, 2024 HashiConf 2024: Inside Look from a HashiCorp Ambassador
  • Oct 15, 2024 Backstage at HashiConf 2024: A Day in the Life of the Azure Terraformer
  • HashiCorp

  • Oct 18, 2024 HashiConf 2024: Inside Look from a HashiCorp Ambassador
  • Oct 15, 2024 Backstage at HashiConf 2024: A Day in the Life of the Azure Terraformer
  • HoloLens

  • Jan 19, 2017 HoloLens: Deploying (and remotely debugging) a Blank UWP App Over Wireless
  • Nov 13, 2016 Holograms App @ United Club
  • Nov 12, 2016 HoloLens: Deploying (and remotely debugging) a Blank UWP App Over Wireless
  • Sep 9, 2016 HoloLens: Deploying (and remotely debugging) a Blank UWP App Over Wireless
  • Home Automation

  • Dec 3, 2018 Building a SmartThings Automation
  • Nov 24, 2018 SmartThings Battery Replacement Cheat Sheet
  • Nov 23, 2018 Planning a Home Automation System using SmartThings
  • Nov 16, 2017 Migrating SmartThings Hubs
  • Sep 28, 2017 Installing Homebrew Azure Stack on a Budget
  • Hybrid Cloud

  • Nov 28, 2022 Revisiting Unify Dream Machine Pro & Azure Site-to-Site
  • Jun 3, 2022 Using Terraform to Provision Microservices with Azure API Management Backed by Azure Functions
  • Influencer

  • Oct 24, 2024 Automating Jekyll with Terraform: A Serverless Approach to Static Site Hosting on Azure
  • IoT

  • Feb 5, 2017 Installing .NET Core on Raspberry Pi 3
  • Feb 4, 2017 Raspberry Pi Zero Review
  • Sep 8, 2016 Raspberry Pi 2 and Windows IoT Core: Getting Started with Blinky
  • Jekyll

  • Jan 18, 2025 GitHub AT-AT v1.0.22 adds Static Web Site Publishing on Azure with Jekyll
  • KeyVault

  • Mar 27, 2020 Setting up Key Vault secured Pipelines with Azure DevOps
  • Kusto

  • Feb 15, 2025 Kusto Chronicles: Turning Your Mutable Cosmos DB Data into an Immutable Audit Trail
  • Aug 4, 2024 Managing Azure Data Explorer using Terraform - Part 4: Setup Azure Monitor Ingestion
  • Aug 3, 2024 Managing Azure Data Explorer using Terraform - Part 3: Add Telegraf Metrics
  • Aug 2, 2024 Managing Azure Data Explorer using Terraform - Part 2: Pick the Right Provider
  • Aug 1, 2024 Managing Azure Data Explorer using Terraform - Part 1: Setup your Cluster
  • Linux

  • Jan 21, 2025 3 Essential Tips for Success in Virtual Machine Image Development with HashiCorp Packer
  • Jan 19, 2025 Fixing Minecraft Bedrock Server Automation with Packer: Adapting to Mojang’s URL Changes
  • Dec 14, 2024 Installing WSL 2 on Windows 11
  • Oct 17, 2024 Terraforming Minecraft on Azure
  • Oct 8, 2024 Setting up HashiCorp Packer with Proxmox Part 2: Build a Baseline Patch Virtual Machine Image using Clone VM
  • Oct 7, 2024 Setting up HashiCorp Packer with Proxmox Part 1: Build a Baseline Ubuntu Image from Installation Media ISO
  • Dec 28, 2018 Plex Server Setup - Part II: Making a Filesystem
  • Dec 27, 2018 Plex Server Setup - Part I: Resizing OS Volume
  • Feb 3, 2017 Installing .NET Core Preview 2.1 on Ubuntu Linux 16.10 Yakkety
  • M365

  • Nov 14, 2024 Setup Office 365 Custom Domain with CloudFlare Terraform Provider
  • MVVM

  • Dec 18, 2016 Code Drop: TripleA for Windows 10
  • Dec 10, 2016 Playing with WPF Custom Panels
  • Dec 1, 2016 Hidden XAML Feature: Dependency Properties on Converters
  • Nov 21, 2016 BackgroundDownloader in MVVM
  • Mentorship

  • Nov 6, 2024 The Philosophy of Code Reviews: Building Better Software Together
  • Nov 4, 2024 Fundamentals of Writing Robust Code
  • Nov 3, 2024 Testing Like a Pro: Strategies for Reliable Code
  • Microservices

  • Feb 1, 2025 Real-World Microservice Design: Part 1 — Persistence & Retrieval Patterns
  • Jan 7, 2025 Nets Are Overrated: Spearfishing Your Way to Serverless Microservices on Azure
  • Minecraft

  • Jan 24, 2025 Waiting for a Terraform Apply? Grab a Pickaxe and Start Mining!
  • Oct 17, 2024 Terraforming Minecraft on Azure
  • Multi-Tenancy

  • Nov 22, 2016 So you wanna be multi-tenant...
  • NUI

  • Feb 1, 2009 Do you need a table?
  • Jan 28, 2009 Physics on Surface
  • Jan 27, 2009 Testing Surface Applications with the Surface Simulator
  • Jan 25, 2009 Surface Hospitality Demo
  • Jan 24, 2009 Searching with Surface
  • Jan 21, 2009 Is Surface Ready for the Workplace?
  • Native Client

  • Jun 22, 2022 Adventures in AAD B2C with UWP WinUI 3 SDK: Part 4
  • Jun 21, 2022 Adventures in AAD B2C with UWP WinUI 3 SDK: Part 3
  • Jun 20, 2022 Adventures in AAD B2C with UWP WinUI 3 SDK: Part 2
  • Jun 17, 2022 Adventures in AAD B2C with UWP WinUI 3 SDK: Part 1
  • Aug 28, 2019 Xamarin UI Test Automation Android Setup
  • Mar 9, 2017 Setting up Swagger in ASP.NET Core
  • Feb 5, 2017 Installing .NET Core on Raspberry Pi 3
  • Feb 4, 2017 Raspberry Pi Zero Review
  • Jan 19, 2017 HoloLens: Deploying (and remotely debugging) a Blank UWP App Over Wireless
  • Dec 19, 2016 Interaction Design for Multiple Form Factors
  • Dec 18, 2016 Code Drop: TripleA for Windows 10
  • Dec 10, 2016 Playing with WPF Custom Panels
  • Dec 1, 2016 Hidden XAML Feature: Dependency Properties on Converters
  • Nov 21, 2016 BackgroundDownloader in MVVM
  • Nov 9, 2016 TripleA for UWP: Cross-Platform Turn-Based Strategy Game
  • Sep 9, 2016 HoloLens: Deploying (and remotely debugging) a Blank UWP App Over Wireless
  • Sep 8, 2016 Raspberry Pi 2 and Windows IoT Core: Getting Started with Blinky
  • Oct 9, 2011 Rendering a tree view using ASP.NET MVC 3 + Razor
  • Aug 16, 2011 Exploring Scalable Polling Duplex with RCA
  • Jul 24, 2011 Silverlight TreeView: Dragging Up vs. Dragging On
  • Jun 12, 2011 Silverlight Toolkit for Silverlight 5 beta
  • May 25, 2011 Mango does not support in-browser Silverlight 4
  • Oct 12, 2010 Making a Slider work nice with the Pivot [or Panorama] controls in Windows Phone 7
  • Sep 11, 2010 A Silverlight Developer’s Experience with Windows Phone 7
  • Jul 18, 2010 Epic Failure: IsolatedStorageException 'Initialization Failed'
  • Jun 12, 2010 Frutiger: Not just a TTF file in your Fonts Folder
  • Jun 11, 2010 Silverlight 4: PRISM TabControlRegionAdapter ItemTemplate
  • Jun 10, 2010 Silverlight 4: IFRAME HtmlDocument is null
  • May 19, 2010 Using SketchFlow as tool during Analysis
  • May 18, 2010 Insurance & Technology Webcast LIVE (Tomorrow)
  • May 11, 2010 .NET Framework vs. Silverlight Minimum System Requirements
  • May 7, 2010 Aspect Oriented UI: Building an OS with Silverlight
  • Apr 29, 2010 Social Wendy Interview @ MIX’10
  • Apr 14, 2010 Thirsty Developer Podcast #90
  • Mar 12, 2010 Toggling IsChecked property of a RadioButton using a custom behavior in Silverlight 4
  • Mar 9, 2010 Building an OS with Silverlight+PRISM
  • Mar 2, 2010 HTML5 vs Silverlight?…really Google vs Microsoft
  • Feb 20, 2010 Silverlight 4 Toolkit Drag & Drop
  • Feb 15, 2010 Silverlight + Citrix = Vindication
  • Nov 20, 2009 'Method Binding' in Silverlight 3 using Custom Behaviors
  • Nov 17, 2009 Data Binding with Bing Maps
  • Oct 15, 2009 How does RIA stack up against its competitors?
  • Sep 28, 2009 Silverlight Toolkit Accordion Control: Layout Error Code 4008
  • Sep 2, 2009 Multi-Page Document Generation with XPS Part I: The Problem
  • Sep 1, 2009 In Memory File Attachments to MailMessage
  • Aug 15, 2009 Using Behaviors to Enhance Silverlight MVVM support
  • Jul 21, 2009 How to Staff a Silverlight RIA Project
  • Jul 13, 2009 Merged Dictionaries Not Working in Silverlight 3 RTM?
  • Jun 30, 2009 What sets Application.Current?
  • May 18, 2009 Reusing XAML from Silverlight in WPF
  • May 17, 2009 Silverlight + Windows Azure Speech
  • May 13, 2009 Silverlight @ Stackoverflow
  • Apr 15, 2009 RadioButtonListBox using the ListBox control in Silverlight
  • Mar 20, 2009 Model-View-ViewModel: View Model Composition Approach
  • Mar 19, 2009 Silverlight 3: Taking an application offline
  • Mar 18, 2009 Silverlight to replace .NET
  • Mar 17, 2009 The WPF Umbrella: How WPF is driving Microsoft’s UI platforms
  • Mar 14, 2009 Silverlight Custom Panels Part III : Sine Panel
  • Mar 13, 2009 Silverlight Custom Panels Part II : Fermat Spiral Panel
  • Mar 12, 2009 Silverlight Custom Panels Part I : Ellipse Panel
  • Feb 24, 2009 WPF Data Binding Cheat Sheet
  • Feb 9, 2009 Silverlight: United States Map ListBox
  • Feb 2, 2009 Silverlight Model-View-ViewModel-Presenter
  • Feb 1, 2009 Do you need a table?
  • Jan 30, 2009 Donut Shape in WPF
  • Jan 29, 2009 Silverlight 2: ComboBox Selection / Source Conflict
  • Jan 28, 2009 Physics on Surface
  • Jan 27, 2009 Testing Surface Applications with the Surface Simulator
  • Jan 25, 2009 Surface Hospitality Demo
  • Jan 24, 2009 Searching with Surface
  • Jan 23, 2009 Silverlight + Surface CONDG Presentation
  • Jan 22, 2009 RE: Size Matters (when comparing Adobe Flex and Silverlight)
  • Jan 21, 2009 Is Surface Ready for the Workplace?
  • Nov 1, 2008 Creating Business Applications with Silverlight...as easy as 1, 2, 3.
  • Jun 11, 2008 Migrating Apps from Silverlight Beta 1 to Beta 2
  • Jun 10, 2008 Silverlight and the case of the Ginormous App.xaml
  • May 3, 2008 Silverlight and the case of the Ginormous App.xaml
  • Apr 30, 2008 Silverlight and the case of the Ginormous App.xaml
  • Apr 29, 2008 BUG: Center DataGridCell Content in Silverlight
  • Apr 28, 2008 How to eliminate the RowHeader within a Silverlight DataGrid
  • Apr 14, 2008 'Freeze' that VisualBrush
  • Networking

  • Feb 17, 2025 Secure Azure Service Bus with Private Endpoints & DNS Best Practices
  • Feb 5, 2025 Terraforming the Perimeter: Locking Down Azure PaaS with Azure Network Security Perimeter
  • Jan 27, 2025 DNS or Bust! Navigating the Wild West of Private Endpoints in Azure Virtual WAN
  • Nov 14, 2024 Setup Office 365 Custom Domain with CloudFlare Terraform Provider
  • Nov 13, 2024 Managing DNS on CloudFlare with Terraform
  • Oct 11, 2024 Dynamically Lookup Your Public IP Address to create Network Security Group Rules
  • Sep 18, 2024 Secure Your SSH Keys: Automating Key Generation and Key Vault Secret Creation with Terraform
  • Sep 17, 2024 Seamless Azure VM Access: Automate SSH Key Management with Terraform
  • NoSQL

  • Dec 18, 2024 Exploring the Potential of Cosmos DB Serverless
  • Nuget

  • Feb 19, 2025 Restoring a Private .NET NuGet Feed: Troubleshooting Unauthorized Access Errors
  • Dec 17, 2024 From Code to Cloud: Automating NuGet Package Publishing with GitHub Actions
  • Open AI

  • Mar 26, 2025 OpenAI RAG Cost Breakdown and Reflections
  • OpenTofu

  • Feb 6, 2025 Provider Iteration in Terraform: A Dream Come True or a Dilemma of Design?
  • Packer

  • Jan 29, 2025 Azure AI Foundry: Where Dreams Go to Deploy… and Die Trying
  • Jan 26, 2025 Ditch Unnecessary Abstractions, Embrace a Direct Hands-On Approach to automating Azure OpenAI with Terraform
  • Jan 23, 2025 GitHub AT-AT v1.0.23: Crafting VM-Based GitOps with Packer — No Redstone Required!
  • Jan 21, 2025 3 Essential Tips for Success in Virtual Machine Image Development with HashiCorp Packer
  • Jan 20, 2025 Secure and Scalable: Running Packer in GitHub Actions with Federated Identity Authentication
  • Passion for Gadgets

  • Aug 4, 2009 iPhone OS 3.0 = Sluggish Performance on the iPhone 3G
  • Mar 16, 2009 Silverlight + Mac Pro = Heaven
  • PowerShell

  • Feb 8, 2020 Azure API Management Backend Management with PowerShell
  • Private Endpoints

  • Feb 17, 2025 Secure Azure Service Bus with Private Endpoints & DNS Best Practices
  • Python

  • Feb 10, 2025 Terraform vs. ClickOps: The Hidden Churn of Python Azure Functions
  • RAG

  • Mar 26, 2025 OpenAI RAG Cost Breakdown and Reflections
  • Rant

  • Dec 3, 2024 No, ‘Serverless’ and ‘Cloud’ Are Not ‘Scams’ — But They Do Come with Trade-Offs
  • Refactoring

  • Nov 2, 2024 Breaking Up is Hard to Do: From Nested Blocks to Stand-Alone Resources with Azure Storage Network Rules
  • Oct 28, 2024 Oops, Wrong Module Name! How to Rename Your Terraform Resources Without Destroying Everything!
  • Sep 16, 2024 Upgrading to Azure Terraform v4.0 - How to Handle Deprecated Resources
  • SAFe

  • Nov 26, 2016 An Agile Team's Progression Through the Stages of Team Development
  • Sep 23, 2016 Confidence Vote: Everybody Votes
  • Sep 21, 2016 Checkbox Scrum Roles
  • Sep 11, 2016 Plan in the Same Room
  • SaaS

  • Nov 22, 2016 So you wanna be multi-tenant...
  • Secure by Default

  • Nov 1, 2024 Au Deux, Access Keys! Securely Locking Down Azure Storage Accounts with Entra ID Authentication
  • Security

  • Mar 31, 2025 The Underrated Power of the azuread Terraform Provider
  • Oct 11, 2024 Dynamically Lookup Your Public IP Address to create Network Security Group Rules
  • Sep 18, 2024 Secure Your SSH Keys: Automating Key Generation and Key Vault Secret Creation with Terraform
  • Sep 17, 2024 Seamless Azure VM Access: Automate SSH Key Management with Terraform
  • Serverless

  • Jan 7, 2025 Nets Are Overrated: Spearfishing Your Way to Serverless Microservices on Azure
  • Service Bus

  • Feb 17, 2025 Secure Azure Service Bus with Private Endpoints & DNS Best Practices
  • Service Fabric

  • Nov 25, 2018 Mocking Service Fabric & Azure Services with Dependency Injection vs. Inversion of Control (IoC)
  • Oct 1, 2018 Unit Test Service Fabric Actors when Actors call other Actors
  • Sep 12, 2018 Updating Service Fabric version for an Actor: Step by Step
  • Sep 11, 2018 DLLHell 2018: Upgrading Service Fabric Project from v3.1.283 to v3.2.176
  • Jan 2, 2018 Swagger UI on Service Fabric with Stateless ASP.NET Core WebAPI
  • Jan 2, 2018 Standalone Cluster On a Single Machine: Same Rules Apply
  • Jan 2, 2018 Actors Referencing .NET Standard 'Works On My Machine'
  • Jan 2, 2018 Deploying to Standalone Cluster: FileNotFoundException
  • Jan 1, 2018 Standalone Service Fabric PowerShell Remote Connectivity Challenges with DevCluster
  • Feb 2, 2017 File Upload Handler built using Azure Service Fabric
  • Jan 31, 2017 Service Fabric Samples Dissection: Visual Objects
  • Jan 23, 2017 Setting up a Service Fabric Cluster in my Home Lab
  • Jan 23, 2017 Hosting a Console Application as a Guest Executable in Service Fabric
  • Silverlight

  • Oct 9, 2011 Rendering a tree view using ASP.NET MVC 3 + Razor
  • Aug 16, 2011 Exploring Scalable Polling Duplex with RCA
  • Jul 24, 2011 Silverlight TreeView: Dragging Up vs. Dragging On
  • Jun 12, 2011 Silverlight Toolkit for Silverlight 5 beta
  • Oct 12, 2010 Making a Slider work nice with the Pivot [or Panorama] controls in Windows Phone 7
  • Sep 11, 2010 A Silverlight Developer’s Experience with Windows Phone 7
  • Jul 18, 2010 Epic Failure: IsolatedStorageException 'Initialization Failed'
  • Jun 12, 2010 Frutiger: Not just a TTF file in your Fonts Folder
  • Jun 11, 2010 Silverlight 4: PRISM TabControlRegionAdapter ItemTemplate
  • Jun 10, 2010 Silverlight 4: IFRAME HtmlDocument is null
  • May 19, 2010 Using SketchFlow as tool during Analysis
  • May 18, 2010 Insurance & Technology Webcast LIVE (Tomorrow)
  • May 11, 2010 .NET Framework vs. Silverlight Minimum System Requirements
  • May 7, 2010 Aspect Oriented UI: Building an OS with Silverlight
  • Apr 29, 2010 Social Wendy Interview @ MIX’10
  • Apr 14, 2010 Thirsty Developer Podcast #90
  • Mar 12, 2010 Toggling IsChecked property of a RadioButton using a custom behavior in Silverlight 4
  • Mar 9, 2010 Building an OS with Silverlight+PRISM
  • Mar 2, 2010 HTML5 vs Silverlight?…really Google vs Microsoft
  • Feb 20, 2010 Silverlight 4 Toolkit Drag & Drop
  • Feb 15, 2010 Silverlight + Citrix = Vindication
  • Feb 12, 2010 Silverlight & WCF Service Reference Weirdness
  • Nov 20, 2009 'Method Binding' in Silverlight 3 using Custom Behaviors
  • Nov 17, 2009 Data Binding with Bing Maps
  • Oct 15, 2009 How does RIA stack up against its competitors?
  • Sep 28, 2009 Silverlight Toolkit Accordion Control: Layout Error Code 4008
  • Aug 15, 2009 Using Behaviors to Enhance Silverlight MVVM support
  • Jul 21, 2009 How to Staff a Silverlight RIA Project
  • Jul 13, 2009 Merged Dictionaries Not Working in Silverlight 3 RTM?
  • Jun 30, 2009 What sets Application.Current?
  • May 18, 2009 Reusing XAML from Silverlight in WPF
  • May 17, 2009 Silverlight + Windows Azure Speech
  • May 13, 2009 Silverlight @ Stackoverflow
  • Apr 15, 2009 RadioButtonListBox using the ListBox control in Silverlight
  • Mar 20, 2009 Model-View-ViewModel: View Model Composition Approach
  • Mar 19, 2009 Silverlight 3: Taking an application offline
  • Mar 18, 2009 Silverlight to replace .NET
  • Mar 14, 2009 Silverlight Custom Panels Part III : Sine Panel
  • Mar 13, 2009 Silverlight Custom Panels Part II : Fermat Spiral Panel
  • Mar 12, 2009 Silverlight Custom Panels Part I : Ellipse Panel
  • Feb 9, 2009 Silverlight: United States Map ListBox
  • Feb 2, 2009 Silverlight Model-View-ViewModel-Presenter
  • Jan 29, 2009 Silverlight 2: ComboBox Selection / Source Conflict
  • Jan 23, 2009 Silverlight + Surface CONDG Presentation
  • Jan 22, 2009 RE: Size Matters (when comparing Adobe Flex and Silverlight)
  • Nov 1, 2008 Creating Business Applications with Silverlight...as easy as 1, 2, 3.
  • Jun 11, 2008 Migrating Apps from Silverlight Beta 1 to Beta 2
  • Jun 10, 2008 Silverlight and the case of the Ginormous App.xaml
  • May 3, 2008 Silverlight and the case of the Ginormous App.xaml
  • Apr 30, 2008 Silverlight and the case of the Ginormous App.xaml
  • Apr 29, 2008 BUG: Center DataGridCell Content in Silverlight
  • Apr 28, 2008 How to eliminate the RowHeader within a Silverlight DataGrid
  • Apr 14, 2008 'Freeze' that VisualBrush
  • Soft Skills

  • Oct 22, 2024 How to Build & Scale an Infrastructure-as-Code Organization: Keep It Simple, Stupid
  • Oct 2, 2017 Tips for Trello: How to use Kanban more effectively
  • Apr 13, 2017 Three Types of Teams
  • Mar 14, 2017 Principles of Enterprise
  • Mar 13, 2017 Three Characteristics of a Knowledge Economy
  • Mar 12, 2017 Dimensions of Management
  • Mar 8, 2017 What Makes a Good Leader
  • Nov 26, 2016 An Agile Team's Progression Through the Stages of Team Development
  • Sep 23, 2016 Confidence Vote: Everybody Votes
  • Sep 22, 2016 What is Commitment?
  • Sep 21, 2016 Checkbox Scrum Roles
  • Sep 14, 2016 Conversations about Forming an Agile Team: Part II
  • Sep 13, 2016 Conversations about Forming an Agile Team: Part III
  • Sep 12, 2016 Conversations about Forming an Agile Team: Part I
  • Sep 11, 2016 Plan in the Same Room
  • Sep 10, 2016 Minimize Team Churn
  • Software Architecture

  • Oct 31, 2024 Quick Drop Deluxe: Snag Config Files to Parameterize and Include in Your Packer Templates
  • Oct 25, 2024 Let's Talk About Blob Storage Container Role Assignments
  • Software Design

  • Dec 12, 2024 Embracing Iteration: The Path to Better Software Design
  • Dec 11, 2024 Synchronizing In-Memory Data with Persistent Storage: A Guide to Avoiding Desynchronization
  • Dec 10, 2024 Side Effects in Code: Why They Matter and How to Avoid Them
  • Storage

  • Oct 31, 2024 Quick Drop Deluxe: Snag Config Files to Parameterize and Include in Your Packer Templates
  • Oct 25, 2024 Let's Talk About Blob Storage Container Role Assignments
  • Teamwork

  • Oct 2, 2017 Tips for Trello: How to use Kanban more effectively
  • Apr 13, 2017 Three Types of Teams
  • Mar 14, 2017 Principles of Enterprise
  • Mar 13, 2017 Three Characteristics of a Knowledge Economy
  • Mar 12, 2017 Dimensions of Management
  • Mar 8, 2017 What Makes a Good Leader
  • Nov 26, 2016 An Agile Team's Progression Through the Stages of Team Development
  • Sep 23, 2016 Confidence Vote: Everybody Votes
  • Sep 22, 2016 What is Commitment?
  • Sep 21, 2016 Checkbox Scrum Roles
  • Sep 14, 2016 Conversations about Forming an Agile Team: Part II
  • Sep 13, 2016 Conversations about Forming an Agile Team: Part III
  • Sep 12, 2016 Conversations about Forming an Agile Team: Part I
  • Sep 11, 2016 Plan in the Same Room
  • Sep 10, 2016 Minimize Team Churn
  • Terraform

  • Feb 10, 2025 Terraform vs. ClickOps: The Hidden Churn of Python Azure Functions
  • Jan 28, 2025 The Azure Terraformer’s Cheat Sheet: 10 Bookmarks You Can’t Ignore
  • Jan 27, 2025 DNS or Bust! Navigating the Wild West of Private Endpoints in Azure Virtual WAN
  • Jan 25, 2025 Troubleshooting Azure Front Door: Custom Domain Stuck in Pending
  • Jan 24, 2025 Waiting for a Terraform Apply? Grab a Pickaxe and Start Mining!
  • Terraform Module Development

  • Dec 24, 2024 Rethinking the GitHub AT-AT Design: Balancing Simplicity and Extensibility for the Future
  • Dec 21, 2024 Unlocking the Power of Terraform: How the GitHub AT-AT is Evolving to Simplify Multi-Environment Automation
  • Oct 28, 2024 Oops, Wrong Module Name! How to Rename Your Terraform Resources Without Destroying Everything!
  • Test Automation

  • Dec 30, 2024 Slash the Hassle: Making Terraform Test Pathing Seamless Across Operating Systems
  • Dec 28, 2024 Writing Good Terraform Tests
  • Oct 30, 2024 Terraform Testing Unleashed: From Examples to Assertions in Real-World Scenarios
  • Training

  • Aug 10, 2018 Bangalore Terraform Training: It's a wrap!
  • UWP

  • Jun 22, 2022 Adventures in AAD B2C with UWP WinUI 3 SDK: Part 4
  • Jun 21, 2022 Adventures in AAD B2C with UWP WinUI 3 SDK: Part 3
  • Jun 20, 2022 Adventures in AAD B2C with UWP WinUI 3 SDK: Part 2
  • Jun 17, 2022 Adventures in AAD B2C with UWP WinUI 3 SDK: Part 1
  • Jan 19, 2017 HoloLens: Deploying (and remotely debugging) a Blank UWP App Over Wireless
  • Dec 18, 2016 Code Drop: TripleA for Windows 10
  • Dec 1, 2016 Hidden XAML Feature: Dependency Properties on Converters
  • Nov 21, 2016 BackgroundDownloader in MVVM
  • Nov 9, 2016 TripleA for UWP: Cross-Platform Turn-Based Strategy Game
  • Sep 9, 2016 HoloLens: Deploying (and remotely debugging) a Blank UWP App Over Wireless
  • Feb 21, 2015 Streaming Content using Azure Media Services to a Windows Universal App
  • UniFi

  • Nov 28, 2022 Revisiting Unify Dream Machine Pro & Azure Site-to-Site
  • Jun 3, 2022 Using Terraform to Provision Microservices with Azure API Management Backed by Azure Functions
  • Unity

  • Jan 19, 2017 HoloLens: Deploying (and remotely debugging) a Blank UWP App Over Wireless
  • V-WAN

  • Oct 12, 2024 Setting up Point-to-Site (P2S) VPN on Azure V-WAN with Terraform
  • Oct 6, 2024 Setting up a Multi-Region Hub-and-Spoke Network using Azure V-WAN with Terraform
  • VPN

  • Oct 12, 2024 Setting up Point-to-Site (P2S) VPN on Azure V-WAN with Terraform
  • VSTS

  • Jan 3, 2018 Publish NuGet Package using VSTS Build Pipeline
  • Virtual Machines

  • Apr 4, 2025 Enabling Entra ID Authentication on Linux Virtual Machines
  • WCF

  • Feb 16, 2010 Experiencing an AddressFilter mismatch when deploying a service to Windows Azure
  • Feb 12, 2010 Silverlight & WCF Service Reference Weirdness
  • WPF

  • Dec 10, 2016 Playing with WPF Custom Panels
  • Mar 17, 2009 The WPF Umbrella: How WPF is driving Microsoft’s UI platforms
  • Feb 24, 2009 WPF Data Binding Cheat Sheet
  • Jan 30, 2009 Donut Shape in WPF
  • WSL

  • Dec 14, 2024 Installing WSL 2 on Windows 11
  • Web Development

  • Dec 4, 2017 Attaching the Bearer Token to Claims Identity in ASP.NET Core to implement On-Behalf-Of Flow
  • WinUI 3

  • Jun 22, 2022 Adventures in AAD B2C with UWP WinUI 3 SDK: Part 4
  • Jun 21, 2022 Adventures in AAD B2C with UWP WinUI 3 SDK: Part 3
  • Jun 20, 2022 Adventures in AAD B2C with UWP WinUI 3 SDK: Part 2
  • Jun 17, 2022 Adventures in AAD B2C with UWP WinUI 3 SDK: Part 1
  • Windows Development

  • Jun 22, 2022 Adventures in AAD B2C with UWP WinUI 3 SDK: Part 4
  • Jun 21, 2022 Adventures in AAD B2C with UWP WinUI 3 SDK: Part 3
  • Jun 20, 2022 Adventures in AAD B2C with UWP WinUI 3 SDK: Part 2
  • Jun 17, 2022 Adventures in AAD B2C with UWP WinUI 3 SDK: Part 1
  • Mar 9, 2017 Setting up Swagger in ASP.NET Core
  • Feb 28, 2017 Entity Framework + LocalDB Connection String Changes
  • Feb 5, 2017 Installing .NET Core on Raspberry Pi 3
  • Feb 4, 2017 Raspberry Pi Zero Review
  • Jan 19, 2017 HoloLens: Deploying (and remotely debugging) a Blank UWP App Over Wireless
  • Dec 19, 2016 Interaction Design for Multiple Form Factors
  • Dec 18, 2016 Code Drop: TripleA for Windows 10
  • Dec 10, 2016 Playing with WPF Custom Panels
  • Dec 1, 2016 Hidden XAML Feature: Dependency Properties on Converters
  • Nov 21, 2016 BackgroundDownloader in MVVM
  • Nov 9, 2016 TripleA for UWP: Cross-Platform Turn-Based Strategy Game
  • Sep 9, 2016 HoloLens: Deploying (and remotely debugging) a Blank UWP App Over Wireless
  • Sep 8, 2016 Raspberry Pi 2 and Windows IoT Core: Getting Started with Blinky
  • Sep 2, 2009 Multi-Page Document Generation with XPS Part I: The Problem
  • Sep 1, 2009 In Memory File Attachments to MailMessage
  • Mar 17, 2009 The WPF Umbrella: How WPF is driving Microsoft’s UI platforms
  • Feb 24, 2009 WPF Data Binding Cheat Sheet
  • Jan 30, 2009 Donut Shape in WPF
  • Windows Phone

  • Apr 12, 2017 Breaking up is hard to do...
  • Sep 17, 2012 Windows Azure Multiplayer Game Event Notifications: Making it perform
  • Sep 8, 2012 GameFabric Update
  • Sep 7, 2012 Windows 8 + Azure Mobile Services Overview
  • Sep 6, 2012 Game Fabric Update
  • Aug 31, 2012 Game Fabric Update
  • Jun 10, 2012 Game Fabric Update
  • Jun 1, 2012 Game Fabric Update
  • May 31, 2012 Storage Transactions: The Silent Killer for Ad-Supported Apps
  • May 27, 2012 Game Fabric Update
  • May 21, 2012 Game Fabric New Features
  • May 14, 2012 Cloud Scan for Windows Phone 7
  • May 9, 2012 Game Fabric V1.0
  • May 8, 2012 Improved Identity Provider Selection
  • May 7, 2012 SL.Phone.Federation, I made it better
  • May 5, 2012 Adventures in Building Windows Phone Multi-Player Games
  • May 25, 2011 Mango does not support in-browser Silverlight 4
  • Oct 12, 2010 Making a Slider work nice with the Pivot [or Panorama] controls in Windows Phone 7
  • Sep 11, 2010 A Silverlight Developer’s Experience with Windows Phone 7
  • Jun 12, 2010 Frutiger: Not just a TTF file in your Fonts Folder
  • Mar 2, 2010 HTML5 vs Silverlight?…really Google vs Microsoft
  • XAML

  • Dec 18, 2016 Code Drop: TripleA for Windows 10
  • Dec 10, 2016 Playing with WPF Custom Panels
  • Dec 1, 2016 Hidden XAML Feature: Dependency Properties on Converters
  • Nov 21, 2016 BackgroundDownloader in MVVM
  • XUnit

  • Dec 19, 2024 Unit Tests and Code Coverage in GitHub Actions: A Developer’s Guide to Streamlining .NET Workflows
  • Dec 16, 2024 Breaking the Cycle of Fragility: Setting Up Unit Tests and Code Coverage in Azure DevOps…Yet Again
  • Xamarin

  • Aug 28, 2019 Xamarin UI Test Automation Android Setup
  • alicloud

  • Aug 30, 2018 Terraform on Alibaba Cloud
  • Aug 29, 2018 Public Cloud in China: Getting Started with Alibaba Cloud
  • azapi

  • Nov 12, 2024 AzureRM vs AzAPI: A Tale of Two Terraform Providers
  • azuread

  • Nov 11, 2024 Terraform Entra ID Saves the Day by automating External User Invitations for Hack-a-Thon Tenant
  • Nov 10, 2024 Democratizing Group Management in Entra ID: Individual Ownership with ‘ReadWrite.Mine’ Permissions
  • Aug 28, 2019 Configuring AzureAD provider in Terraform to manage App Registrations
  • azurerm

  • Nov 12, 2024 AzureRM vs AzAPI: A Tale of Two Terraform Providers
  • Oct 28, 2024 Oops, Wrong Module Name! How to Rename Your Terraform Resources Without Destroying Everything!
  • Oct 17, 2024 Terraforming Minecraft on Azure
  • Oct 12, 2024 Setting up Point-to-Site (P2S) VPN on Azure V-WAN with Terraform
  • Oct 6, 2024 Setting up a Multi-Region Hub-and-Spoke Network using Azure V-WAN with Terraform
  • Oct 5, 2024 Automating Grafana Dashboards on Azure with Terraform — Part 4: Creating an Azure DevOps Pipeline for Multiple Terraform Stacks
  • Oct 4, 2024 Automating Grafana Dashboards on Azure with Terraform — Part 3: Automating Dashboards with the Grafana Terraform Provider
  • Oct 2, 2024 Automating Grafana Dashboards on Azure with Terraform — Part 2: Setting Up Just-in-Time Authentication with the Grafana Terraform Provider
  • Oct 1, 2024 Automating Grafana Dashboards on Azure with Terraform — Part 1: Provisioning an Azure Managed Grafana Instance
  • Sep 16, 2024 Upgrading to Azure Terraform v4.0 - How to Handle Deprecated Resources
  • Sep 7, 2024 Should the Azure Terraform Provider “azurerm” Support Multi-Subscription Deployments?
  • Nov 28, 2022 Revisiting Unify Dream Machine Pro & Azure Site-to-Site
  • Jun 3, 2022 Using Terraform to Provision Microservices with Azure API Management Backed by Azure Functions
  • Mar 8, 2020 Azure Functions + EventGrid Subscriptions With Terraform
  • Feb 9, 2020 Using Terraform to Provision Microservices with Azure API Management Backed by Azure Functions
  • Dec 24, 2019 Terraform + Azure DevOps Environment Variable Piping Tips
  • Nov 10, 2019 Azure Serverless Architecture Automation with Terraform Explained
  • Nov 9, 2019 Challenges using Terraform with Azure Serverless Architecture
  • Nov 4, 2019 Azure Speech API is a game changer
  • Aug 29, 2018 Creating Service Account for Terraform in Azure
  • Jun 27, 2018 Switching from 'Azure' to 'AzureRM' Terraform Backend
  • May 22, 2018 Setting up Packer and Azure
  • May 18, 2018 Using an Azure Marketplace Image with Packer
  • proxmox

  • Oct 8, 2024 Setting up HashiCorp Packer with Proxmox Part 2: Build a Baseline Patch Virtual Machine Image using Clone VM
  • Oct 7, 2024 Setting up HashiCorp Packer with Proxmox Part 1: Build a Baseline Ubuntu Image from Installation Media ISO
  • All366
  • .NET 15
  • AAD B2C 14
  • ADX 1
  • AI 1
  • APIM 1
  • ASP.NET 2
  • AT-AT 8
  • Agile 10
  • Application Insights 1
  • Aspire 1
  • AuthN 15
  • Azure 13
  • Azure AD 1
  • Azure API Management 5
  • Azure Active Directory 1
  • Azure App Service 1
  • Azure DevOps 6
  • Azure Event Grid 4
  • Azure Front Door 1
  • Azure Functions 11
  • Azure Storage 3
  • Blogging 5
  • Books 2
  • C# 28
  • Career Milestones 5
  • Certifications 10
  • Cloud Migration 1
  • Cloudflare 2
  • Code Quality 1
  • Code Reviews 3
  • Cognitive Services 1
  • Configuration Management 1
  • Cosmos DB 4
  • CosmosDB 7
  • Databricks 3
  • Day 2 Ops 2
  • Docker 1
  • Entity Framework 1
  • Entra ID 4
  • EventGrid 4
  • FinOps 3
  • Game Development 1
  • GitFlow 7
  • GitHub 3
  • GitHub Actions 12
  • Grafana 4
  • HashiConf 2
  • HashiCorp 2
  • HoloLens 4
  • Home Automation 5
  • Hybrid Cloud 2
  • Influencer 1
  • IoT 3
  • Jekyll 1
  • KeyVault 1
  • Kusto 5
  • Linux 9
  • M365 1
  • MVVM 4
  • Mentorship 3
  • Microservices 2
  • Minecraft 2
  • Multi-Tenancy 1
  • NUI 6
  • Native Client 81
  • Networking 8
  • NoSQL 1
  • Nuget 2
  • Open AI 1
  • OpenTofu 1
  • Packer 5
  • Passion for Gadgets 2
  • PowerShell 1
  • Private Endpoints 1
  • Python 1
  • RAG 1
  • Rant 1
  • Refactoring 3
  • SAFe 4
  • SaaS 1
  • Secure by Default 1
  • Security 4
  • Serverless 1
  • Service Bus 1
  • Service Fabric 13
  • Silverlight 53
  • Soft Skills 16
  • Software Architecture 2
  • Software Design 3
  • Storage 2
  • Teamwork 15
  • Terraform 5
  • Terraform Module Development 3
  • Test Automation 3
  • Training 1
  • UWP 11
  • UniFi 2
  • Unity 1
  • V-WAN 2
  • VPN 1
  • VSTS 1
  • Virtual Machines 1
  • WCF 2
  • WPF 4
  • WSL 1
  • Web Development 1
  • WinUI 3 4
  • Windows Development 22
  • Windows Phone 21
  • XAML 4
  • XUnit 2
  • Xamarin 1
  • alicloud 2
  • azapi 1
  • azuread 3
  • azurerm 23
  • proxmox 2
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