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Handy runtime Docker Container Commands

Handy runtime Docker Container Commands

Here are some super handy docker container commands

Azure Web Apps - SSH access for Custom Containers

Azure Web Apps - SSH access for Custom Containers

For most "smaller" projects I use Azure Web Apps for hosting. It just takes care of all the work of hosting sites, APIs, and Apps in a PaaS manor, so I don't have to worry about it.

Better understanding of performance with dotnet and dotnet GC

Better understanding of performance with dotnet and dotnet GC

Background research you need to put into your head :) 1. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/internals-of-the-poh/ 2. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/performance-improvements-in-net-core-3-0/ 3. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/profiling/dotnet-alloc-tool?view=vs-2019 4. https://github.com/Maoni0/mem-doc/blob/master/doc/.NETMemoryPerformanceAnalysis.md

Installing Nvidia Drivers on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

Installing Nvidia Drivers on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

Nowadays, installing Nvidia drivers on Ubuntu or Debian based systems is a lot easier than it use to be in the past. Below are three easy steps to install the best latest drivers for you from terminal.

Changing A Windows 10 User Account Name (Profile) and Folder Path (It didn't work)

This is a very short post on something I posted a few days ago re: trying to change the name and path of an account after it has been created on Windows 10. Sadly it didn't work out, so I resorted to plan B.

Changing A Windows 10 User Account Name (Profile) and Folder Path

As I mentioned in the previous post, Windows 10 sometimes does not create the username of the default account as you would like it.

Enable and Disable the Windows 10 Administrator

Enable and Disable the Windows 10 Administrator

Enabling the default Windows 10 Administrator Account can be a convenient solution to a solving some problems that can happen with your own account.

Azure App Service Free Managed Certificates

Azure App Service Free Managed Certificates

Today, Azure has made security even easier with the introduction of App Service Certificates, right in the Azure App Service Site Blade.

Android Screen Capture with ADB

Android Screen Capture with ADB

The Android Device Debug Utility (ADB) comes with a handy commandline screencapture feature by default.

Mobile Development with Ionic - A list of useful commands

Mobile Development with Ionic - A list of useful commands

A handy list of commands for Ionic Framework.

Windows 1O IOT Core Dashboard not installing - Security issue

Windows 1O IOT Core Dashboard not installing - Security issue

If you're starting on your journey with IOT and you choose the Windows platfrom for it (it's probably not a bad idea, MS is investing heavily in this plaform), you'll probably start to use the Windows 10 IOT Core Dasbhoard.

Git not recognising filename casing changes on Windows!

Git not recognising filename casing changes on Windows!

Had a small problem with Git not recognising filename casing changes on Windows filesystems.

Resharper not working for one solution.

Resharper not working for one solution.

I had a small but annoying problem recently with just one Solution in Visual Studio 2017 (VS) with Resharper (2018.2.3).

Custom Docker Containers in your Azure Web App - Part 2

Custom Docker Containers in your Azure Web App - Part 2

Part 1 of this services, contains the details you need to create a Docker Image and Container locally to verify it's all working as you expect. Then build, tag, push it to a provisioned Docker Registry manually for use elsewhere.

Calming down EF Core logging

Calming down EF Core logging

EF Core logging is awesome by default for debugging purposes. At info level you get every query and response going and coming from the db.

Incorrect String Value with MySQL and EF Core

Incorrect String Value with MySQL and EF Core

When I attempted to insert it into a local development database, I notice an odd exception, something that I thought would be avoided because I'm using UTF8 in the character set of the MySQL 5.7:

Building Microservices : Designing Fine-Grained Systems - Book Review

Building Microservices : Designing Fine-Grained Systems - Book Review

What can I say, this is the defacto book for advice and strategies on building microservices in the modern world.

Sharing code with NuGet and .Net Standard

Sharing code with NuGet and .Net Standard

You've written some code and you want to share it around to all your microservices, which makes sense. So how are you going to do that, enter NuGet and .net standard.

Setting up Java Environment Variables for Gatlin.io

Setting up Java Environment Variables for Gatlin.io

Given I haven't found a decent performance testing framework in .Net, I've been using both Artillary.io for NodeJS projects and in most cases I've been using Gatling.io for others.

ASPNET Core 2 Self Contained App on Windows and Linux

ASPNET Core 2 Self Contained App on Windows and Linux

Running on windows as a well as linux. Get the correct RID for your running platform. The modify the .csproj for the running assebmly and add each of the RIDs in. ubuntu.14.04-x64 ubuntu.16.04-x64 After this then build it using the runtime identifier like so: RUN dotnet

Adding an SSL to Azure Web Apps

Adding an SSL to Azure Web Apps

In setting up this blog, I wanted to go all the way and put a fully signed SSL certificate on it, to protect both readers and blog post producers. I have to say compared to the past with setting up SSL certs, Microsoft have made this very very easy. Using

Can't copy a file to a Docker image

Docker is so big in the tech world lately and Node apps too. I've been working with both a lot more. The current project entailed putting a Node app into a Docker Image. In fact it was Ghost Blog [https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost]. With Docker to really

Service and App Metrics in ASP.Net Core 2 - Part 1

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Service and App Metrics in ASP.Net Core 2 - Part 1

I've been looking at monitoring ASP.Net Core Microservices lately and I'm really feeling the need to get a good application and service monitoring system in place, to detect issues and to improve efficiencies of the systems we have. For this, I'll create a

Streaming a file into Azure Storage via Azure Web Apps and ASP.NET Web API

Streaming a file into Azure Storage via Azure Web Apps and ASP.NET Web API

TL;DR Get a Memory stream of the file from HTTP Request Context, then use the Azure Storage Async APIs to stream it into the cloud. The Code ASP.Net Web API doesn't have the same upload mechamism that ASP.Net MVC does but you can get a