Every week, I work from an arena while my son has an hour hockey practice. I see this as time to clean up my inbox, finish small jobs and get myself ready for the next week. Last week, there was a new WiFi network setup in the arena. After connecting...
Last weekend I received a notification from one of our web properties that it had experienced over 5000 errors in the past hour. I looked at the error log and noticed that the site was being hammered by a single IP address. I wanted to block the IP address until...
I've been "managing" employees since I was promoted to Lead Developer at my first job back in 2000. At the time I had worked under a total of TWO other development managers for a total of 18 months. I thought being the smartest developer in the room meant that I...
This week was a test week after running through the Kizen Infinite Offseason Program for the past 6 weeks.
Squat - 335 lbs
Deadlift - 355 lbs
Bench -280 lbs
Overhead Press - 160 lbs
30 more pounds and I can be in the 1000 pound club!!!
About a week ago, I started to see the above popup every time I started an Office application on my laptop. I followed the Go to My Account button, logged into my Microsoft Account and noticed that my renewal was unsuccessful since we changed our credit card. I assumed (incorrectly)...
As we migrate more and more of our infrastructure to Azure, we've begun to make use of WebJobs. Now that we have started to reply more and more on WebJobs rather than Windows Services, I wanted to add a status check to our dashboard to make sure that the WebJob...
We've been experiencing this SQL error with one of our sites lately. When I ran the offending stored procedure in SSMS, it ran in under a second. Running the page with this stored procedure would hang for 30 seconds and then time out. The quick fix is to run the...
While we are in the process of automating our Azure deployments, one item that keeps me awake at nights is backups. What if someone deploys an app to Azure but completely forgets to setup and automated backup? I had some time last night to (finally) address this problem and came...