The Powershell and the Glory
In which I add a custom prompt by making a hack in the PowerShell profile.…
You can have nice things
I have come across a few things that are legitimately pleasant to use, so I thought I should collate them here to aid my aging memory. Dear reader, I am not attempting to copy Scott Hanselman’s tools listhttps://www.hans…
A cloud strategy
I’m going to rehash some learnings that I have made over the last decade and a bit of doing cloud in one way or another. I have recently read thought leadershttps://twitter.com/QuinnyPig report similar things – only bett…
Enterprise IT, a tragedy?
In the beginning of time, Grace Hopper inventedhttp://www.women-inventors.com/Dr-Grace-Murray-Hopper.asp:~:text=She%20became%20Director%20of%20Automatic,friendly%20business%20computer%20software%20program business softwa…
SQL Server and cloud
You would have one database connection string, and that would be it. “The Database” would live in the darkest corner of the office and you would try not to interact with the physical machine that hosted the relational da…
Why is everybody waterfalling “Agile”?
Just like that rebrand cycle years ago when RUP consultants transitioned over to scrum masters through staged re-titling on LinkedIn and liberal use of search / replace in their CV, scaled agile frameworks and certified …
Auto-login after signup
If you have a website that uses Open ID Connect for login, you may want to allow the user to be logged in directly after having validated their e-mail address and having created their password.…
WSL 2 in anger
I have previously written about the Windows Subsystem for Linux. As a recap, it comes in two flavours- one built on the concept of pico processes, marshalling the Linux ABI into Win32 API calls WSL1 and an actual Linux k…
Put your Swagger UI behind a login screen
I have tried to put a piece of API documentation behind interactive authentication. I have various methods that are available to users of different roles. In an attempt to be helpful I wanted to hide the API methods that…
AWS CLI and SDK local setup
Jeff Bezos may have tripled his fortunes in the last couple of months by price gauging hand sanitiser and bog roll during lockdown with 1000% markup, but some aspects of the empire are less well-functioning. Getting an i…