Today I was able to successfully migrate all of my Windows Azure artifacts from one Microsoft Account/Subscription to another Microsoft Account/Subscription. The scenario was – I had an MSDN subscription via my former employer, and over the source of the past year, I’d developed a number of applications whilst learning […]
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Introduction Recently I was asked to look into solutions for moving some WordPress sites in-house for a client. At first this looked fairly straightforward, until I realised that they wanted the ability to spin up new self contained VM sites with little effort. Naturally, I pursued the logical step of […]
Last month I was lucky enough to try out a wireless charging solution for the iPhone 5/5s courtesy of a local mobile phone accessories site called MobileZap. Before we get into the charger itself, I just want to point out how well designed the site is to use, it’s terribly […]
This morning I struggled to get Microsoft Lync 2013 to work. The symptoms consisted of the application running normally – I could authenticate, and the contact list would load – but after a few minutes the application would hang. Naturally, I Googled the symptoms and found a match for the […]
Early last December we were fortunate enough to move into a brand new home which we bought off the plan – with a couple of slight alterations. One of those alterations was to fully network all rooms with CAT-6 Ethernet, terminating in the garage with plenty of space for wall […]
Yesterday I attended an executive breakfast briefing hosted by Oracle at the Hyatt Hotel in Yarralumla. The event was hosted by Oracle’s Chief Technology Officer, Stuart Long and also featured a case study by NTT Communications. As usual, I took shorthand notes based partly off the presentation slides and mostly […]
Do you prefer offline help and documentation? Sometimes I prefer offline help, particularly when I’m travelling or when a stable Internet connection is not available. It is particularly useful if you work in an environment where external access is difficult, for example in a secure datacentre. I find offline documentation […]
This morning, I received an e-mail which the various spam/mail filters managed to miss. With only a passing glance, I recognised this as a phishing attempt, and nearly gave it no further thought. However, being on an iPhone, the “from” address field had been truncated (to appear as “AppleStore@apple.e…”: After […]
As un-Architect as it sounds, I still very much like to stay “hands on” when it comes to hardware and software. Particularly, I like to hand build my personal machines so I can stay current with advancements in hardware. You may recall from the previous post, I’ve been planning on […]
It’s been a few years – more than I’d like to admit – since I hand built my current server/workstation. It was way back in 2008 when living in Brisbane that I ponied up the cash to procure the appropriate hardware. Fast forward to now, in 2014, the current rig […]
At the moment the annual Microsoft BUILD conference is currently under way in San Francisco in the United States. This is a time when Microsoft typically unveils major changes to its platforms and other major products – this conference sort of replaces the old Platform Developer Conference (PDC) from ye […]
Well, this has been a busy week. Today, I finished day four of a four day course on The Open Group Architecture Forum (TOGAF)’s v9.1 Level 1 & 2 Enterprise Architecture certification. The course has given me a very decent foundation of learning from which to build upon, and hopefully […]
Did you know that Oracle and Java were available on the Windows Azure? Well, it’s true and the images have been available for some time now as previews in the Azure Virtual Machine gallery. If you’ve invested into Oracle/Java on Azure, you’ll need to be prepared for increased usage charges […]
Introduction In Part 1, we had a brief look at OWIN/OAuth concepts, and then prepared a clean ASP.NET web forms project for integration with NuGet packages essential to supporting a lightweight integration for OAuth handling. In Part 2 we established the information required to authenticate users against the Live Connect […]
Introduction Where we left off in Part 1, we’d established the prerequisites to prepare either a new or existing web forms project for the implementation of a lightweight OWIN/OAuth provider. This article, Part 2, will focus on how to prepare your development environment and also how to configure for Windows […]