Using Azure Data Factory To Count Word Frequency In Tweets

June 22, 2015 · 9 min

Migrating from AWS to Azure using Azure Site Recovery

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. ...

June 2, 2015 · 6 min

Sync Git master with fork

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. ...

April 10, 2015 · 1 min

Netflix IMDB Chrome Extension

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. ...

January 7, 2015 · 2 min

Not Just Code Monkeys

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

December 21, 2014 · 1 min

Planning Poker Made Easy

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. ...

November 26, 2014 · 2 min

Panel Jumping On Collapse

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. ...

August 20, 2014 · 1 min

Remove Git Repo Configuration and History

Step 1: Remove all history rm -rf .git Step 2: Reconstruct the Git repository git init git add . git commit -m "Initial commit" Step 3: push to GitHub. git remote add origin <github-uri> git push -u --force origin master

August 12, 2014 · 1 min

BREACH Attack

Back in August 2013, at the Blackhat conference, security researchers Angelo Prado, Neal Harris and Yoel Gluck announced BREACH. ...

July 26, 2014 · 2 min

SSL and Web Security

It is worth noting that SSL is only one piece of your web security. It offers a great way to protect your data as it flows between the client and the server as well as providing a check to ensure the server is who you think it is but it is only a piece of the security puzzle. Often people will think just by having SSL enabled their site is now secure but this is just not the case. ...

July 14, 2014 · 1 min