Part of migrating our hosting from our current environment over to Azure involved migrating the SSL certificates. To save money, the clients generally do not want to pay for new certificates, they would rather use the existing ones. Our current host exports the SSL certificates as CSR files and provides...
I've spent a good part of the last two days working on our deployment methodology. We have started the slow migration of our sites from our current hosting provider to Azure. To date I have been using the FTPS deployment. I wanted to experiment deploying from GitHub. I setup the...
I had to write a quick and dirty script to read URLs out of a file and test to make sure they were working correctly. Seemed like a pretty straightforward and simple problem. Here is the script version that I started with: function TestSite($url) { $HTTP_Status = (invoke-webrequest -method head...
With my commute shorter now that we have moved offices, I find I've had to take a critical look at the podcasts that I listen to. I had to drop some very good podcasts, but I tried to be ruthless. Hanselminutes - I love this podcast and still listen to...
After listening to episode 1379 of DOTNETROCKS titled "SQL Choices with Tony Petrossian", I was gobsmacked to hear that Microsoft has delivered a public preview of MS SQL Server 2016 that runs on Linux. I had heard the hype but assumed that it was going to be a few years...
Almost every web application we develop has functionality to email our client when someone submits a form. It is usually the form on the Contact Us page, but it could also be a notification when a new order is submitted, or someone submits a new FAQ. Either way, part of...
Recently we had reason to force all page connections to use SSL for one of our clients. We have done this in the past with code, but I wanted to see if this was possible to do with the URL Rewrite module. We utilize an SSL load balancer so all...
F-Secure had a great blog post entitled An Open Letter to Businesses that Block VPNs on their Free Wi-Fi. I've run into this on a number of open access points in Kitchener. The worst offender is Tim Hortons. I cannot access our work VPN which uses SSL nor my OpenVPN...