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I must speak and teach until I hear 10 people say, "That thing you taught me? I used it! And it saved me time!"
(Ahem ... although maybe blogging slower than I'd hoped. Ugh, coders' repetitive stress injury.)
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Low-Code Generation Z
02 May 2024
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?”
Continue ReadingEntra RBAC Role Assignment FAQ
04 Feb 2024
Below are a few frequently asked questions about Entra RBAC Role Assignments.
Continue ReadingAzure RBAC Role Assignment FAQ
03 Feb 2024
Below are a few frequently asked questions about Azure RBAC Role Assignments.
Continue ReadingEntra App Registration FAQ
02 Feb 2024
Below are a few frequently asked questions about Entra App Registrations (“app reg”).
Continue ReadingEntra/Azure System-Assigned Managed Identity FAQ
01 Feb 2024
Below are a few frequently asked questions about Microsoft Entra / Azure System-Assigned Managed Identities.
Continue ReadingCode Review: My first Powershell function
13 Dec 2023
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.
Continue ReadingTrunk-based Git branching
13 Dec 2023
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.
Continue ReadingWhat is Azure DevOps?
12 Dec 2023
Azure DevOps is a suite of software products. Let’s take a look at them.
Continue ReadingHow many Entra App Registrations do I need?
25 Oct 2023
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?
Continue ReadingVariables and secrets for CI/CD pipelines
03 Aug 2023
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.
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