Privacy in the modern age is a rare thing. Always remember if you are using a free service, or getting something cheaper, you’re probably the product. This post goes into some of the stuff you can do to protect yourself. I often get questions around is there anything I can do to protect privacy. I can describe what I …

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I get a lot of questions from my family about various computer related things, I thought I’d write down the answers for a few of the interesting ones…. Anti-Virus, is a bit of software that runs in the background on your machine, trying to analyse any changes to the system that are malicious. My usual advice on …

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Setting up the monolith pipleine (Azure DevOps Pipelines) In Episode 1, we created a Monolith application in .NET Core two do some simple Maths on two supplied numbers. Episode 2, we showed how to use Docker and Dockerfiles to docker-is the application ready to run either on a Developers Laptop or on a Docker Host or …

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Setting up the Monolith Pipeline (TDD) In Episode 1, we created a Monolith application in .NET Core two do some simple Maths on two supplied numbers. Episode 2, we showed how to use Docker and Dockerfiles to docker-is the application ready to run either on a Developers Laptop or on a Docker Host or Docker Cloud …

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This is a new series I’ve decided to write, which covers the current experiment I’m running with .NET Core 2.1, Azure DevOps, Docker and eventually Kubernetes. I want to demonstrate how we break up a simplified example of a monolithic application containing self hosted WebAPI services into a number of microservices. …

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Setting up a private docker registry In parts 1 and 2 of this series, we’ve coded up a simple .NET Core 2 web application, containing some services, and we’ve dockerised it and its stored on our local docker image library. Cool. Now, what happens if we want to be able to share that unit of execution with other members …

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Dockerising the Monolith Docker as a technology seems to divide the community, some say its a good solution to the problem of packaging up your software that collects all of your dependencies and then stamps them into a repeatable deployable package….others say its been done before with other technologies or that its a …

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Microsoft has yet to release an iso that allows you to install Nano Server onto a server. The standard method seems to be to create a VHD and then use that to run Nano. I was at a conference the other day, and managed to work through the process of getting a server up and running in VirtualBox 5. Lets go: On a Windows …

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I use a couple of different technologies to store large quantites of data on my “server” at home, namely Storage Pools combined with Data Deduplication on Windows Server 2012 R2. Up to a couple of weeks ago it was working great but I’ve started to notice oddities which couldn’t really be explained… So I decided to …

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