A colleague of mine asked for some help building out a DevOps pipeline that would provision a web app and a database, upload default data held in csv files into the database, and then deploy the web app and subsequent schema changes. Piece Of Cake. Totally simple. How hard could this be? And what could … [Read more…]
I was doing some simple looping using ForEach-Object and I wanted to break out of the loop after I found the value I was looking for. Naturally, I did this: Yeah, that didn’t work out so well. That broke out of the entire script I was running. Some quick googling…. don’t use break or continue … [Read more…]
As I’m writing more PowerShell (what I really mean is googling PowerShell or asking Steven @StevenMurawski), I ran into this weird thing. I was trying to hit an Azure Function that I wrote using Invoke-RestMethod and I kept getting the error: Invoke-RestMethod : The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a send … [Read more…]
Recently Burke Holland (@burkeholland) and Cecil Phillip (@cecilphillip) asked me to help devops their URList project (actually, I’m not so sure if they asked or if I just kept pestering them until they let me on the team… ). At first glance, I thought this was going to be simple. The URList only consists of … [Read more…]