We have a peculiar situation with our Hangfire service, a service that kicks of jobs as separate processes using different queues for different tenants. When we add a new tenant we currently have to restart the application pool. I know. Not ideal. But it is what it is, until we get that sorted. Additionally, we […]
We recently moved our environments to new virtual machines, and decided to reinstall and set up Octopus Deploy from scratch. We also used this opportunity to change some of the deploy steps so we could benefit from the new features in Octopus Deploy. Octopus Deploy has a long list of variables that simplifies the steps […]
I was going to do a longer writeup on this, but I’ll just share the script with a very simple explanation for now and do the writing later. I’m not pleased with my explanation below, its written in a hurry- so please let me know what is unclear and I’ll make sure to amend the […]
Although I’m sure this is something a lot of developers know and have done before I’m adding this post as a how-to for some of the consultants for our product. Not all of them are used to working with SQL and our beta setup requires some manual work. At the moment we have to manually […]
It was late and I was looking through my drafts of future ‘Tip of the Day!’ which I tweet out on daily basis. A colleague had mentioned to me that I could exclude certain folders to improve performance on my computer (at the time a slower computer) and I decided to make that the tip […]
Recently I decided to list my community contributions so if anybody, for whatever reason, was interested I would have everything collected in one place. I pulled some data from my blog, and an excel sheet I had, as well as my MVP page (lists contributions up until 2015) and inserted it in a database. Then […]
Yesterday ‘the’ day finally came. The day I got the A-Okay to set up a document database for our system. While I certainly appreciate MS SQL and alike there are different types of databases to cover different types of scenarios. I had not so discreetly made a plea for using a document database for our logging, and […]
Earlier this week I was putting together a PowerShell background service to generate some reports. The reports where based on some queries run against our databases in the different environments, as well as schema comparisons that created upgrade scripts and sent warnings if there could be data loss based on the changes. I’ll get to […]
I honestly can’t remember if I blogged this or not, but since I can’t find the blog post I will just assume that I didn’t. I thought I’d share a few lines of PowerShell for something rather handy. I seem to be constantly RDPing and since I mainly work and navigate from a shell it […]
I’m doing some Uni courses to get a BCS with an international profile and one of the tools we use for coordinating assignments, email, discussions and more is Fronter. I’m not a terrible big fan of the system, I used it for two years when I did my programming degree but I never got comfortable […]
Scroll down to skip life of me stuff 😉 Getting back to blogging turns out to be harder than I thought. It’s not that I don’t want to, or that I lack the time. It’s rather that things have changed so much, people have changed me, and I’m still trying to figure out how to […]
Cheatsheet Read below (after the cheatsheet) for details and examples. Defining hotstring ::myHotstring:: myActionOrOutput Hotstring options (some): Options defined as :option:myHotstring:: myActionOrOutput ❓ Triggers string inside another word :c: Case sensitive :c0: Not case sensitive :k100: Key delay of 100 milliseconds. Does not work with SendIput :r: Send as raw (not needed when using a […]
As you know I’m a PowerShell fan and the other I was trying to convince one of my coworkers to give it a try. We were trying to do some remote debugging with Weinre via node and not so surprisingly we had to set some environment variables to be able to run all the commands […]
The documentation for the cmdlets for HDInsight are not up to date, and therefore neither is the Get-Help on this one (today: July 1st 2014). I’m not sure if I’m misunderstanding something, or if the docs aren’t documented. But, If you run a simple cmdlet such as: Get-AzureHDInsightCluster -Subscription (Get-AzureSubscription -Current).SubscriptionId You will get the […]
If you, like me, like Azure and PowerShell you might wonder how to add properties to a blob when uploading. Its simple, the command for upload has a Properties parameter of the type HashTable. A HashTable is a collection of key value pairs, and for out properties the key is what we want to set […]
A quick post today for dealing with a mystery exception when uploading data to blob storage on Azure with PowerShell. Earlier this week I went to UK and was preparing the podcast with Jonas on SharePoint. I had made some scripts that update the podcast feed, uploads to blob storage and other things and had […]
I’ve started a new video and audio series (I guess we can them podcasts?) with ‘(not so) Stupid Questions’, and while I’ve chosen to have the videos on YouTube (for now) the question was where to put the audio file? Azure of course! I’ve been wanting to dig deeper and learn more about Azure ever […]
Using Text-To-Speech in scripts I have some scripts that take some time to run for my virtual machines, so I’ve added speech so I’ll know when they are done. Just as I use speech a fair bit on my phone (having my messages read out and replying) I also use it on my computer. The […]
Yesterday while on a call with one of my favorite people I had the opportunity of sharing a nifty little thing everybody should know in Windows 8. This is not specific to Windows 8- but it sure is easier to do a search now. We will start of easy with simple file filtering, before we […]
I’m working on a Pluralsight course on continuous integration and to demonstrate the process in the introduction module I made a make believe CI system in PowerShell, When a build step failed I wanted notifications, and tray notifications can be quite handy (emails as well of course). This is how you create a tray […]
Another quick writeup on my favorite shell! If you use it as much as I do, and you are not a fan of desktop shortcuts or pinning things to the ‘bar’, here are a few ways to access PowerShell with just a few keystrokes. I’ll refer to the Windows key as just Windows as winkey […]
Quite often I find myself having to rename a bunch of files in a folder, and what better way to do this than PowerShell? This simple one-liner is also a great way to learn a few new PowerShell tricks, or rather- get familiar with the syntax and see how flexible PowerShell is. The script I’m […]
My love for PowerShell is still strong, and so is my fascination for Sublime. So of course I would like to combine powers! I would like to be able to do two things, have syntax highlighting and to run commands piping the output to sublime. Doable? You bet! The example is with Sublime 2 Get […]
As I’m becoming a better programmer (my first year as a programmer) I’m also getting better at debugging, and it is one of my favorite things to do. Yes, I said it, I love debugging. But then again I love pretty much everything about programming. Anyway. One technique I’ve recently learned to appreciate is differential […]
In the winter darkness the Swedes have become hard to identify (even with the pale blonde hair and strong accent), and we need a list so we can get the invites out for the next ‘Fika’ (Swedish tradition). It would be horrible if we got non-Swedes at the fika, after all nobody can appreciate this […]
[To celebrate my first year of programming I will ask a ‘stupid’ questions daily on my blog for a year, to make sure I learn at least 365 new things during my second year as a developer] If you want to save the path of an executable to a permanent variable you can do so […]