Low-Code Generation Z

02 May 2024 💬 EN

I’ve seen a lot of handwringing about Generation Z not grokking hierarchichal file folders and directories.

At the other end of the spectrum, software engineering professor Dimitris Kolovos wrote:

“a growing proportion of the workforce are digital native and, while they may lack a background in programming, they are well-versed computer and web users and skilled with non-trivial software (e.g. office/mobile applications). Low-code software engineering aspires to leverage this increasingly computer-savvy workforce”

So which is it as the old PC-raised software application implementers retire and youth replace them? A bunch of technologically helpless fresh faces or “well-versed and skilled computer users?”

Entra RBAC Role Assignment FAQ

04 Feb 2024 🔖 security tutorial 💬 EN

Below are a few frequently asked questions about Entra RBAC Role Assignments.

Azure RBAC Role Assignment FAQ

03 Feb 2024 🔖 security tutorial 💬 EN

Below are a few frequently asked questions about Azure RBAC Role Assignments.

Entra App Registration FAQ

02 Feb 2024 🔖 security tutorial 💬 EN

Below are a few frequently asked questions about Entra App Registrations (“app reg”).

Entra/Azure System-Assigned Managed Identity FAQ

01 Feb 2024 🔖 security tutorial 💬 EN

Below are a few frequently asked questions about Microsoft Entra / Azure System-Assigned Managed Identities.

Code Review: My first Powershell function

13 Dec 2023 🔖 powershell tips 💬 EN

I’m lucky to have enthusiastic, experienced PowerShell programmers at work. When I showed off my first attempt at writing a “hello world” function, they gave me an hour of their time to review and correct it.

Trunk-based Git branching

13 Dec 2023 🔖 git 💬 EN

A “trunk-based” strategy for creating and deleting “branches” of a Git repository can drastically reduce conflicts when teams collaborate on editing a shared file.

What is Azure DevOps?

12 Dec 2023 🔖 devops git azure 💬 EN

Azure DevOps is a suite of software products. Let’s take a look at them.

How many Entra App Registrations do I need?

25 Oct 2023 🔖 security devops integration git azure 💬 EN

Creating an App Registration (and its corresponding Service Principal) in Microsoft Entra ID (formerly known as “Azure Active Directory,” “Azure AD,” or “AAD”) lets a code-deployment-automation “CI/CD pipeline” (such as an Azure DevOps Pipeline or a GitHub Action) access the Azure cloud resources onto which you’d like to deploy your code.

But just how many of them do you need per project / application / workload?

Variables and secrets for CI/CD pipelines

03 Aug 2023 🔖 devops integration git azure 💬 EN

Azure DevOps Pipelines and GitHub Actions both let you store variables and secrets in their services, for use with your CI/CD automations, but they’ve arranged them in pretty different parts of their settings options.