Host your Hugo site on Azure Storage

deployed with VSTS

I’m a big fan of Static Site Generators (SSGs) for basic websites like this blog. By removing all the moving parts we can host blazing fast sites directly out of Azure Storage at very low cost. In this post I’ll cover how to host a static website created with Hugo under a custom domain using Azure Storage (Static Sites) and Cloudflare which is automatically deployed from GitHub using Azure DevOps. [Read More]

Using Azure Functions to text you when your servers are down

So I’ve just read a great blog post by Nick Malcolm on Using AWS Lambda to call and text you when your servers are down. The thing I like most about it is that it’s serverless so no infrastructure to maintain and worry about. However, not everyone is on AWS. The environment I want to monitor is all hosted in Azure! Turns out Azure also fully supports this serverless set up and it’s just as easy, if not easier, to do the exact same thing using Azure Functions and Alerts. [Read More]
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Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.PageInspector.Loader...

VS 2017 RC is out, no better time to go remove any old versions of Visual Studio I have lying around. However, when I uninstalled an old version of VS 2012 Express - boom, all my local sites stopped working with the following missing assembly error. Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.PageInspector.Loader, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' or one of its dependencies. The module was expected to contain an assembly manifest. It looks like it’s an assembly that VS 2012 adds which is why it’s no longer available after uninstall, but we are still trying to reference it somewhere. [Read More]

Update multiple Git repositories on Windows at once using Powershell

If you’ve got a bit of time there’s plenty of guides on how to set up Git and Powershell but to make things simple we’re just going to go ahead and download GitHub Desktop. Phil Haack did a pretty good job at convincing me that even though GitHub Desktop is a GUI app - it’s a great way to get the Git command line set up and kept up to date also. [Read More]