Well “dynamic-ish”. The Speaking Engagements page on this site uses data files to generate the list of upcoming and previous speaking engagements. Which generates the content shown here.

I have been using JetBrains Rider for a while now and I have been really happy with it. I have also been using it for presentations and demos. I thought I would share how I set it up for presentations.

Aspire streamlines your development workflow with code-first control, modularity, and observability for distributed applications.

There was a twitter conversation around building an extension to make it easier for presenters/twitchers and others to quickly switch between settings in Visual Studio. I decided to blog about how I do it.

There are so many devices that are connected to our home networks nowadays. I have multiple Amazon Fire Sticks, computers, smart TVs, mobile phones, smart appliances, and so much more. At any given time, there are around forty devices connected to my home network. Since working from home, I have three to four machines that are constantly ‘on the internet’. The main house TV, my work computer, my son’s computer or Xbox, and the daughter’s Fire Stick/YouTube. These devices are typically streaming in some way, shape, or form. All of these devices, plus the other 30 or so on, were taxing my router. I currently don’t have any CAT5/6/7 wiring in my house, so I tried extending my wireless network a few different ways.

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.

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.

GitHub Pages has deprecated the legacy worker and will be removed by the end of June 2024. The legacy worker was used to build and deploy Jekyll sites on GitHub Pages. The new way to build and deploy Jekyll sites on GitHub Pages is to use GitHub Actions. This post will show you how to migrate your Jekyll site from the legacy worker to GitHub Actions.

Hello, Microsoft identity platform!

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.

In this post, I’m going to walk through how you authenticate and use an API that is secured with Azure Active Directory using React Native and the Microsoft Identity library.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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 at how you can set up and configure Azure Key Vault to store Code Signing Certificates

In this post, we’ll walk through how you can use Azure Key Vault to secure sensitive settings in Azure Functions. If you don’t have a Key Vault setup, I covered setting one up in the post titled ‘Setup Code Signing Certificates in Azure Key Value’

When using Google or Bing Maps to lookup an address or point of interest, both display address suggestions in a user-friendly way. In the example below, I type “Time Square”, and Bing suggests a few addresses/places.

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.

Like a lot of engineers nowadays, I use Docker for my development environment. I have a Windows 11 machine with Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) and I use Docker Desktop for Windows. I also use Developer Containers with a volume for the source code to work with my blog, which means the files are not stored on the local file system but in a Docker volume. Occasionally, I need to access the files in the Docker volume for image creation. This post will show you how to access the files in the Docker volume on Windows.