When you build out a pipeline using Azure Data Factory you will have to associate it to a storage account. If, as part of your pipeline you are running certain jobs such as a HDInsight On Demand job it will, for each slice run, generate a container in the storage account for that run. This is great for debugging, but if you run a pipeline for any extensive period of time these job containers build up and you need a way to periodically purge them. Typically you will see the adf job container be called something like: adfname_of_factory-name_of_ondemand_service-timestamp ...

This post is about automating deployment into Azure for Drupal 7. This will focus on leveraging Azure Resource Manager (ARM) and ARM templates to define the infrastructure as well as wire up the continous deployment processes. ...

With Azure Site Recovery you can migrate VMs from Physical Servers to Azure. This opens up a variety of useful use cases such as Migrating instances from AWS to Azure Having a Azure as a failover site for AWS instances. ...

I recently had to fork a branch in github and then I had to figure out how to keep the changes from the master in sync with the fork branch I had made. Turns out it is really simple. ...

I created a simple Chrome extension today to make things a little easier when browsing Netflix. I always find myself having to go to IMDB.com to go and check out a movie’s rating when I am looking for something to watch on Netflix. With this extension I bring that rating right into Netflix, meaning one less click for me. ...

Martin Fowler’s presention on building healthy, social environments where software development can thrive is interesting. ...

Often I work with remotely distributed teams where some (or all) of the team members are remote and attend meetings virtually. The other day, during a planning games session, a few of the team members were remote and so, in order to facilitate the planning poker sessions, we looked for a web site that would provide the option for the team to all vote within a virtual room. ...

I added a bootstrap panel to a webpage with collapsing sections. The requirement was for each panel to remain open until it was specifically closed. This worked fine, however, I noticed that on closing the panel there would appear to be a jump effect which did not look nice at all. ...