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How to add Azure App Service configuration settings

Using the Azure Portal

  1. Navigate to your app service and find configuration under settings.
  2. Click + New application setting
  3. Enter the name of the setting (variable your app will call)
  4. Enter the value (in this example the name of the DB)
  5. After entering your value click OK
  6. Click the save...

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Convert Hybrid Users to Cloud

Removing access to on prem resources

I had an interesting request. We have a partner company that previously needed access to our network resources and domain email addresses. The need for network resources has gone away. They still require emails.

I decided the best answer was to convert them...

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Is money the only reason to do anything?

You can argue the economics of not being able to raise wages in certain industries. There may be valid arguments on both sides.

I don't buy this argument that if we pay fast food workers more, we won't have doctor's or engineers. I worked at a Teamsters warehouse for 6 years and financially was v...

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Inappropriate chrome notifications and legacy account shenanigans

Why turning off updates is always a bad idea

Started the day with the revenge of one of our former employees. It was causing someone to get "inappropriate" chrome notifications. The back story was someone in their infinite genius decided to add a registry modification command to a the deployment b...

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Wordpress VS Grav

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WordPress - Why I started considering alternatives

WordPress is the go-to for blogging or any other web presence. It's fairly easy to setup, and is infinitely expandable. Plugins can customize for almost any use case. Is it always the best solution? Ask any good engineer what the best of anythin...

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