Mar072016

Visual Studio and Node - Set Proper External Web Tools Path Order

A problem that my team has been running into on-and-off since working with ASP.NET Core is having a local install of our node toolchain fighting with Visual Studio's built-in version of node. Luckily, my coworker discovered the source of the issue (thanks, Pete!).

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Feb292016

Back to the Heart of the Matter

As I get back into the swing of things, I just wanted to say this: Joy and I are extremely blessed to have so many amazing people in our lives.

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Feb262016

Peeping Around

Well, our family made the local newspaper… but not for reasons we'd prefer.

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Feb252016

Matters of the Heart

Alright, important update for everyone: earlier today I was using the elliptical machine when I felt a sudden, and major, increase in my heart rate. After ending my workout, I rested and decided to self-monitor and see how my heart rate would proceed.

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Feb122016

"Working Remotely" on the MS Dev Show

Another #BrandonEpisode of the #msdevshow where we talk about working remotely and telecommuting in general.

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Dec112015

Utilize Microsoft.TeamFoundation PowerShell Modules in VSO/VSTS Custom Tasks

If you haven't been paying attention to the "New Microsoft", you may have missed that a lot of their new code is ending up on places like Github. Included in that is the backbone of their new Visual Studio Team Services build and deploy services: tasks.

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Dec022015

Migration Notes: ASP.NET 5 MVC 6 - Beta 8 to RC 1

I finally had a chance to get our codebase to the release candidate of ASP.NET 5. Excited to have a supported release available and more-or-less production-ready! As usual, here are my personal release notes to my team on the upgrade process.

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Nov222015

Microsoft's Connect(); // 2015 on the #msdevshow

I join the awesome hosts of the MS Dev Show to discuss some of the announcements from Microsoft's Connect() 2015 conference. We touch on ASP.NET 5, Visual Studio Team Services, and Visual Studio Code.

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Oct302015

Deploy ASP.NET 5 Binaries via DNU

I don't know why it took me so long to figure this out, but it's totally possible to deploy binaries from the DNU toolchain instead of source folders.

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Oct282015

Resolve an ASP.NET DNX HttpPlatformHandler CGI Application Exception on Azure

After deploying one of our ASP.NET DNX web applications to Azure, we were running into an exception.

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