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Tom Conneely

Web Development in 2022

I came across this report [https://engineering.linecorp.com/en/blog/the-baseline-for-web-development-in-2022/] written by Alan Dávalos [https://twitter.com/AlanGDavalos] about the web develpment landscape that is well worth reading. I'm going to pick out a few bits but I'd advise reading the report because there

An Unusual Tip To Avoid Russian Malware

The health service in Ireland has been suffering major disruptions due to a ransomware attack [https://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2021/0523/1223337-cyber-attack-hse/] last week [https://www.rte.ie/news/health/2021/0514/1221537-hse-cyber-attack/]. I was listening to a podcast about the attack and the lessons to be learned

Azure Pricing Calculator

Azure is an incredibly powerful service. You can spin up virtual machines, add extra instances of a web site to handle higher traffic loads or create new databases along with a bunch of other options in a few clicks. It can be easy to forget that adding extra items so

Notes from RailsConf 2021

Making decisions based on little to no research results in regret most of the time. I saw people I follow on social media talking about RailsConf last weekend and I decided to give it a shot. It was a decision I didn't regret. I've never attended

Visual Studio Hanging on Start Page

The Problem When I came into work this morning Visual Studio 2017 was hanging on the Start Page. It wasn't being populated and I couldn't get anything to work with it. After doing some Googling and talking with my colleagues it looked like the issue was

Using XML Transformations when deploying to Azure App Service using VSTS

I recently changed some web apps that had originally used the Azure Cloud Service (Classic) to use the newer Azure App Service mainly to bring the deployment time down without having to sacrifice the app's performance. We already have a CI build and release process and I needed

Using AssemblyInfo in Deployment Labels in VSTS Release Defintions

The Problem Like I wrote in my previous post [https://tommyconneely.com/using-assemblyinfo-in-vsts-build-numbers/], the company I work for have used the assembly version for keeping track of deployments and we wanted to continue this practice when moving to use VSTS build and release management. We currently use the Azure Cloud

Using AssemblyInfo in VSTS Build Numbers

The Problem The company I work for have used the assembly version for keeping track of deployments and we wanted to continue this practice when moving to use VSTS build and release management. You can set the build name in the Options tab of the build definition. You can see

PowerShell Commands - Part 1

Definitions So, what is the difference between a command and a cmdlet in PowerShell? There is this definition "PowerShell in a Month of Lunches" [https://www.manning.com/books/learn-windows-powershell-in-a-month-of-lunches-third-edition] > "PowerShell contains many times of executable commands. Some are called cmdlets, some are called functions, others

Getting Started with PowerShell

I haven't been the most enthuasiastic user of command lines in the past. I dabbled here and there but I've mostly used GUIs whenever possible. Most of the time, this didn't have any negative effects on my productivity. When I started using Azure however,