Artificial Intelligence
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Artificial Intelligence
Wouldn't it be awesome to use a local LLM as your personal AI assistant on the daily, subscription-free, completely offline, and even in VS Code? Type "y" to continue.
Docker
Corporate policy restrictions got you down? Me too! I've struggled to find a reliable solution for local Slack, Github, or cloud development when Ngrok, the most commonly used tool for exposing services locally, is restricted by either a local execution policy or via OpenDNS (or similar)
Azure
In all companies, large and small, there is no One app to rule them all. The reality is that there are often dozens, sometimes hundreds, of apps/services/tools/etc that we use to help ourselves or to provide services to our clients.
DevOps
Testing! Every developer's favorite topic :). For me, if I can save time through automation, then I'm interested. Automated testing for a developer typically starts with unit tests, which, even if you don't subscribe to TDD, you've written at least one of them
Slack
In this example, I'm using an Azure API app with Easy APIs enabled (formerly mobile services...but better) and the preview version of the Azure Function app.
Code
If you use Git with GitHub, the Hub wrapper utility by GitHub is a better CLI option for working with your personal and org repositories.
Azure
I have a love-hate relationship with the Azure portals. Some days it's fast and lets me do exactly what I want; other days, like today, I want more control over how my stuff runs.
Code
To continue my quest of converting from CVCS to git, I figured I would do a short write-up on my recent experience with converting from Subversion in a Windows environment.
Reviews
First things first, it all starts with the package manager. It's the best, and I feel the only, way to maintain software on any machine you deal with.
Azure
After sifting through posts, docs, and Stack Overflow, I finally set this up using the same MSBuild process I'm using for Continuous Deployment today.
Slack
Online persistent chat is awesome! Ever since I joined my first IRC chat room, I was hooked. It's slash commands, people leaving/joining/collaborating, and it's always running
DevOps
Fortunately for Azure developers, there are many great ways to set up continuous delivery (CD) to Websites. I use Bamboo CI server.
Craft Beer
I love beer! And because of the love affair, I've had a kegerator in my home for over a decade. I still love and enjoy bottles of my favorite brews, but there is nothing like pouring yourself a beer right from your stainless tap.
DevOps
As we all know, exception handling is critical to every application's success. It's not a matter of if something goes wrong, it's how and when. However, it's one thing to trap an exception and another to get that information into an actionable format.
Azure
Kudu is all around great tool if you're using Azure Websites. It will not only build and deploy your code from git, but it also provides a lesser-known web interface available on every azure website
Git
As a long-time TFS user and VSS user before that, what is most commonly referred to as centralized version control (CVCS) was all I knew.