Peter Ritchie

While I was presenting my workshop Building and Deploying a New Cloud App from Scratch at DEVIntersections yesterday the connection to the database kept failing. Which was weird because I’ve gone through the code quite a few times to make sure everything worked. The good thing is that it failed during the creation of the integration tests which demonstrated the benefit of creating them. However, that did not help me on stage. I was getting the following error:

Learn how to create dynamic Open Graph profile images using C# and .NET in this step-by-step guide.

In a previous post, I showed you how to Setup Code Signing Certificates in Azure Key Vault. In this post, I will show you how to create an Extended Validation (EV) Code Signing Certificate with digicert and store it in Azure Key Vault.

For the past few weekends, I’ve been working rebuilding a library I wrote to make it easier to use Azure Storage. I started this library about 4 or 5 years ago, and it did not have ‘true’ unit tests. I’m not going to talk about what makes a good unit test and what doesn’t. There are plenty of posts around that! I decided to rewrite all of the tests and move to xUnit. After creating about the 50th test or so, I noticed a pattern in the initial shell of the tests. Most of the tests looked like this.

A year ago, yesterday, I went to the Emergency Room because I was getting cold sweats, and something did not feel right with my body. Well, after a few tests and a few doctors later, a cardiologist came in and told me I had 90% blockage in the left anterior descending artery, better known as the Widow Maker. It’s known as the widow maker because you tend to have minutes left to live when it is blocked. I am glad I listened to my body and my wife and went into the Emergency Room.

A year ago, yesterday, I went to the Emergency Room because I was getting cold sweats, and something did not feel right with my body. Well, after a few tests and a few doctors later, a cardiologist came in and told me I had 90% blockage in the left anterior descending artery, better known as the Widow Maker. It’s known as the widow maker because you tend to have minutes left to live when it is blocked. I am glad I listened to my body and my wife and went into the Emergency Room.

Learn how to create dynamic Open Graph profile images using C# and .NET in this step-by-step guide.

Let’s take a look at how you can set up and configure Azure Key Vault to store Code Signing Certificates

Securing our applications and data is critical in this day and age. I’ve been working a lot with the new Microsoft identity platform (MSAL) library, so I decided to create a series of blog posts around working with it.

Let’s take a look how you can build an Azure pipeline that will build your NuGet package, sign it, then deploy it to Azure Artifacts

Learning individual skills is important, but when you're creating large, distributed system you need to have a plan. In this course, you'll learn how to architect your applications to be scalable and maintainable.

What's happening with Uno now that .NET 10 is released? Carl and Richard talk to Jérôme Laban and Sam Basu about the latest developments in Uno, including the

Let’s take a look at how you can set up and configure Azure Key Vault to store Code Signing Certificates

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When you use the Azure Key Vault SDK, you can create, read, update, and delete secrets. In this post, you will learn how to update a secret and its properties using the Azure Key Vault SDK.

I’ve been streaming ‘Coding with JoeG’ on Twitch for a few months now. The general theme of the stream is teaching software development with C#. We’ve been building a contact management application to demonstrate some best practices. About two weeks ago, or so, I added an Azure Storage Blob Container to hold the images of the contacts. I did this using the way I knew how to do it using Storage Access Keys and a library, JosephGuadagno.AzureHelpers.Storage, that I wrote to make it ‘easier’ to interact with Azure Storage. While talking about the stream on Twitter, Christos, PM on the Microsoft Identity team, reached out and said I should try securing the Container/Blob with Managed Identity. I tried on the stream for a good 5 or so hours and could not get it to work. If you want to see it, check out the recording of the stream on my YouTube channel.

While we hope it never happens, demo failures happen when presenting talks or doing workshops. I do not know of a speaker that has not had a demo go bad while up on stage or live streams. Many of us have a back up plan… After searching around for solutions for this, I decided to use git tagging to solve this for me.

I’ve been thinking about purchasing a new laptop for travel. This got me thinking about the trauma of setting up a new laptop. In the past, I would spend some time on my existing laptop ‘writing down’ all the applications, settings, and configurations for my current laptop. This was a tedious process and I would always forget something. I would then spend the next few weeks remembering what I had forgotten and making the changes. This was a very inefficient process.

A year ago, yesterday, I went to the Emergency Room because I was getting cold sweats, and something did not feel right with my body. Well, after a few tests and a few doctors later, a cardiologist came in and told me I had 90% blockage in the left anterior descending artery, better known as the Widow Maker. It’s known as the widow maker because you tend to have minutes left to live when it is blocked. I am glad I listened to my body and my wife and went into the Emergency Room.

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