Terrain Generation part 4: deriving temperature
October 06, 2023
Terrain Generation part 4, Rust and temperature
Terrain Generation part 3: random continents
October 04, 2023
Terrain Generation part 3, Rust and terrain layers
Terrain Generation part 2: layering noise functions
October 03, 2023
Terrain Generation part 2, Rust and terrain layers
Terrain Generation part 1: Voronoi noise
September 30, 2023
Terrain Generation part 1, Rust and noise functions and Voronoi
Morgemil Game Update #7: Notes since 2021
September 03, 2023
A brief update of ongoing game project in F#
Morgemil Game Update #6: Adding time and characters
December 27, 2021
A brief update of ongoing game project in F#
Cube Rails Update 2: Mouse hover, font, players
September 12, 2021
Adding mouse movement and fleshing out some of the data structures
Cube Rails Update 1: Zooming and drawing and documentation
August 29, 2021
Explaining how the map is drawn
Adapting some of my favorite board games
August 22, 2021
Train board games make for great digital adaptions
My work-in-progress list of automation justification.
June 17, 2021
Procrastinating is the same as not automating.
Kubernetes at home - Part 11: Trying Harvester and Rancher on the bare metal server
May 29, 2021
Installing Harvester and then enabling Rancher
A good code review to change software systems
April 11, 2021
More effective change of entrenched software and processes.
Kubernetes at home - Part 7: Grafana, Prometheus, and the beginnings of monitoring
January 26, 2021
Grafana, Prometheus, and the beginnings of monitoring
Kubernetes at home - Part 6: Keycloak authentication and Azure Active Directory
January 17, 2021
Keycloak authentication and Azure Active Directory
Kubernetes at home - Part 4: DNS and a certificate with HAProxy Ingress
January 07, 2021
Azure DNS and Let's Encrypt with HAProxy Ingress
Kubernetes at home - Part 1: The hardware
January 02, 2021
The start of an epic series running Kubernetes at home
Angular 8 with Azure DevOps Build Pipeline
January 02, 2020
Angular 8 is awesome with Azure DevOps Build Pipeline.
Business Transparency and DevOps
December 30, 2019
A great barrier to DevOps is a lack of transparency in how decisions are made or in how something gets done or in explaining why something happened.
Verifying Azure B2C token with Go from OpenID Connect (OIDC)
December 21, 2019
Verifying Azure B2C token with Go from OpenID Connect (OIDC)
Adding artifacts to a Github Release from Azure DevOps pipeline
December 07, 2019
Adding artifacts to a Github Release from Azure DevOps pipeline
Five Years and a few months in Professional Software Development
July 23, 2019
I became a professional software developer five years and a few months ago. I've learned a lot.
Moving files with Azure Data Factory
July 05, 2019
Delimited files to SQL Table with Azure Data Factory
My first real continuous deployment
April 24, 2019
My first real continuous deployment was several years ago.
Gatsby with Azure AppInsights
April 04, 2019
Azure App Insights is very useful to track user interaction on our business applications.
Angular 7 with Cypress and Azure DevOps Build Pipeline
April 02, 2019
Angular 7 is awesome with Cypress and Azure DevOps Build Pipeline.
Rubber Ducks and healthcare
February 14, 2019
Rubber ducks, healthcare, and software have a long-standing relationship.
Expectations and software
February 07, 2019
I've worked on several software systems, and a significant frustration I experience is the breaking of expectations.
Ramblings on a functional concept in ERP software
January 26, 2019
Enterprise-Resource-Planning software has a functional concept.
Angular 7 with Azure DevOps Build Pipeline
January 19, 2019
Angular 7 is awesome with Azure DevOps Build Pipeline.
Surprises as a Software Developer
January 17, 2019
I never truly imagined what I'd spend most of my time on, when I became a software developer.
Adding static analysis to an existing C# project.
January 12, 2019
The Roslyn .NET compiler has awesome static analysis extension capabilities.
Return On Investment (ROI) as a community-involved software developer
January 05, 2019
What should you do outside of work as a software developer?
Accessing Azure Active Directory Graph API
January 01, 2019
Building an application that requires Azure Active Directory Graph API access.
OpenTracing and C#
December 14, 2018
OpenTracing allows distributed system tracing in a vendor neutral way
Blazor: C# in the browser
November 24, 2018
Blazor is an exciting new way for C# developers to build a UI in the web with HTML.
.NET Core Yaml build on Azure DevOps
October 27, 2018
Code coverage and test results for .NET Core on Azure DevOps
Personal Git repository at work.
October 07, 2018
An experiment in putting those Markdown files in Git!
Knox Tech Trend
September 09, 2018
Knox Tech Trend is a website to show information on Knoxville, TN Meetups.
My Values for Software-As-A-Service.
August 15, 2018
When evaluating technology, tools, or processes, I value these things.
Using .NET Tuples in F#, C#, and VB.NET
August 05, 2018
.NET supports tuples, here's a sample from calling in each language.
Active Directory Authentication with Azure SQL
July 29, 2018
Adding new members to the team or removing leaving members from the team on Active Directory can automatically grant or revoke Azure SQL permissions.
A Contrived Refactor
July 24, 2018
Here's a contrived example of refactoring some code to be more testable.
Grafana + Prometheus = Awesome
July 24, 2018
Grafana is an excellent way to visualize data collected by Prometheus.
Viewing metrics in Prometheus from ASP.NET Core
July 22, 2018
Prometheus is a very useful monitoring platform for viewing metrics, and showing metrics via .NET Core is awesome.
Creating GatsbyJS Source Plugin
July 22, 2018
Azure Table Storage is a fantastic budget NoSQL option that fits nicely into GatsbyJS.
Automating Azure Deployment with C# Cake, and PowerShell
July 07, 2018
C# Cake is a fantastic build tool that can be used with PowerShell to automate Azure deployments.
Scheduling with Quartz .NET Scheduler in Linux
July 07, 2018
Scheduling jobs as a Linux service is easy.
Connecting Visual Studio Team Services to Azure Active Directory
July 01, 2018
Connecting Visual Studio Team Services to Azure Active Directory makes security of users easy and a unified experience across the organization.
Scheduling with Quartz .NET Scheduler and Topshelf service using Serilog
June 29, 2018
Scheduling jobs in a Windows Service is easy.
13 Salesforce Integration tips, tricks, and obscure info
June 27, 2018
I've been near Salesforce a lot lately. Here's a bit of knowledge I've picked up on integrating with Salesforce.
Defining VSTS build with YAML in GitHub
June 26, 2018
VSTS has a preview feature to allows builds to be defined in YAML and stored in Git with your code.
Creating Azure Functions with Terraform
June 24, 2018
Terraform is a fantastic tool for concisely defining and creating cloud resources. Here's Azure Functions.
Local PostgreSQL with Ansible
June 23, 2018
Setting up PostgreSQL with Ansible via Vagrant in local environment on Windows 10 and VirtualBox
Browser Testing with F# Canopy
June 09, 2018
F# Canopy is a web testing framework with one goal in mind, make UI testing simple
Automating Container Jobs in Azure
April 27, 2018
Automating container jobs with Azure Container Instances and Azure Automation Account is easy.
Four Years in Professional Software Development
April 22, 2018
I became a professional software developer four years ago. I've learned a lot.
Logging in with Azure Active Directory
January 20, 2018
Using Azure Active Directory to secure a .NET Core MVC app.
Introduction to Salesforce from a developer
December 21, 2017
I've started digging into Salesforce, here's what I like and dislike.
The Nashville .NET User Group
November 22, 2017
I was the Co-President of the Nashville, TN .NET Users Group for nine months in 2017.