When people think of DevOps they frequently miss out or neglect the monitoring of their applications. One of the main goals of DevOps is to react quickly to situations and ensure the best experience for the end user; monitoring enables this and gives us the following advantages Identifies problems in the application. Drives insights into […]
I use Microsoft TFS on a daily basis and have found that no matter how many documents and guides you write regarding processes people will log bugs/user stories incorrectly. To try and help with this I built a bot which can be given a ruleset and notify users when substandard work items are added. More […]
A few months back I upgraded my home server to a Dell R710, I got a good deal on it and it came preloaded with 72GB ram and two Xeons so it was much more powerful than the server it replaced. The problem with it is that the R710 is an enterprise grade server and […]
I recently had to write some unit tests for a method which had various outcomes depending on the current Date/Time, this created a problem as the method used DateTime.Now and there is no way to moq it. I tried a few different ways of doing this and did a bit of Googling and came up with […]
I recently bought a domain name and needed email to go with it, after some research I decided to use GSuite as I’ve used Gmail for years and it has the added benefit of unlimited drive storage. This post should guide you through the steps needed to get GSuite connected to your domain and email […]
After recently investing in various cryptocurrencies through Binance I found that their website didn’t show enough data regarding total profit/loss, they did however have an api which could be used to gather that data. The solution was to develop a simple (I am no asp.net developer!) site which would show current portfolio price and total […]
A recent problem I came across was setting my Nginx server which is running Ubuntu Server 17.10 to use a static IP address. The normal approach of editing /etc/network/interfaces wasn’t working so I gave up on it and let DHCP do its thing, this worked fine until my Hyper-V server rebooted and then Nginx got a […]
This article will cover installing Nginx (with HTTPS), PHP and Mysql on a Ubuntu 17.10 Server. The first step is to install Ubuntu Server, my installation was done on a virtual machine within Hyper-V however the installation should be the same for pretty much every scenario. SSH was installed when prompted during the installation and […]