5 blog posts tagged Azure

Screenshot of the Azure Pipeline Variable being mapped
MAR
27
2019
Development2 minutes

Azure Pipeline Build Variables

Azure Pipelines has been interesting to me especially given the generous free open source tier and seemingly instant availability of build agents. The setup is easy if you're building .NET targets with lots of useful starters available.

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MAY
28
2018
Development5 minutes

WordPress to Jekyll part 2 - Comments & commenting

I do enjoy discussion and debate, whether designing software or writing articles. Many times the comments have explored the subject further or offered corrections or additional insights and tips. They are vital on my blog, and I was disappointed that Jekyll provides nothing out of the box to handle them.

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APR
11
2018
Development4 minutes

Model binding form posts to immutable objects

I've been working on porting over my blog to a static site generator. I fired up an Azure Function to handle the form-comment to PR process to enable user comments to still be part of the site without using a 3rd party commenting system - more on that in the next post - and found the ASP.NET model binding for form posts distinctly lacking.

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MAR
29
2018
Development3 minutes

Differences between Azure Functions v1 and v2 in C#

I've been messing around in the .NET ecosystem again, jumping back in with Azure Functions (similar to AWS Lambda) to get my blog onto 99% static hosting. I immediately ran into the API changes between v1 and v2 (currently in beta).

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JUN
27
2015
Development3 minutes

Table per hierarchy in Azure Table Storage

If you’re coming from an ORM background to Azure Table Storage, you might be wondering how to map class hierarchies to tables.