I was setting up a new Azure Pipeline today to deploy a Blazor Web Assembly application to a Static Website in Azure Storage. Despite authorising the service connection in Azure Pipelines to have access to the target storage account, I was encountering a AuthorizationPermissionMismatch error when the task executed. I…

I’ve been increasingly using the Azure CLI for most of my day to day tasks in Azure. Whilst the portal is good for working things out, I find it painfully slow when I know what I want to do. The Azure CLI lets me get things done faster, but it…

It is increasingly common to use an external service to handle the authentication of users for a modern application. In most cases this makes a lot of sense. Why roll your own authentication when you can use a specialised service with more experts focussing on security than you will ever…

Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates are JSON files that allow you to define the infrastructure and configuration of your project. This means that your Azure resources can be deployed repeatedly and reliably, with the templates living with your code under version control. …

I’ve successfully moved my entire development environment on to my Mac (after many years of impatience waiting for the last of my .NET Framework projects to die or be ported to .NET Core). …

We all know that focus matters and attempting to multitask is a productivity killer. In a perfect world you would be able to focus on a single task until it is completed and then move onto the next one. I don’t know about you, but this utopia is still a…

As the last days of the year slip by, I find myself in a contemplative frame of mind. What have I achieved this year? What have i learnt? How can I make myself a better developer in 2020? Do you, dear reader, find yourself in the same asking the same…

ASP.NET Core provides tools to help avoid storing sensitive data used during development in source code. Personally, I’m not a big fan of environment variables for storing development secrets, so I have started using the Secret Manager. The Secret Manager is a tool that allows you to store app secrets…

As I talk to managers and employees of businesses, I am often amazed at the amount of menial, repetitive work that is still being undertaken. Managers and small business owners often identify this as a problem, but explain to me that they can’t afford to implement a custom software solution…