Alex is a co-founder and technical lead at DEVDEER, sharing in-depth insights on cloud consulting, Microsoft Azure, software architecture transformations, and open-source tools.
18 articles from this blog
A guide to displaying progress indicators in Windows Terminal tabs and taskbar icons using PowerShell and .NET OSC sequences.
A technical guide on manually configuring federated identity service connections in Azure DevOps to maintain control over Azure Entra service principals.
A developer's analysis of Azure's origins, design philosophy, and how its leadership's background influences its platform for developers versus administrators.
Introducing pping, a command-line tool for checking if network ports are open, similar to ping but for TCP ports.
Microsoft introduces a native sudo command for Windows 11, allowing users to run commands with elevated privileges directly from the terminal.
A technical article detailing a bug in Windows 11's nslookup command encountered while testing Azure Hub & Spoke networking with Private DNS.
A guide to building professional .NET console applications using modern practices like Top-Level Statements and the .NET Generic Host.
A PowerShell script to identify and remove stale Azure AD role assignments where the associated identity no longer exists, helping clean up access control lists.
A guide to deploying to Azure App Service using GitHub Actions with a service principal instead of publish profiles for better governance.
A technical guide explaining how to authenticate and connect to an Azure AD B2C tenant using Azure CLI and PowerShell Az module.
A guide to fixing SSH private key permission errors on Windows using PowerShell, avoiding the complex manual file security settings.
A developer details their migration from Azure DevOps to GitHub Actions for CI/CD, including setup steps and configuration.
A developer's critical opinion on Microsoft's recent strategic direction, focusing on Windows 11, Visual Studio 2022, and Azure announcements.
Troubleshooting a broken Azure DevOps CI/CD pipeline for a UWP app due to missing Windows SDK versions on the build agent.
Explores the preview of Azure Blob Index, a new feature for fast querying and filtering of blobs in Azure Storage using key-value tags.
An introduction to Azure Active Directory B2C, explaining its concepts and outlining a detailed tutorial series for developers.
A guide to implementing API versioning in ASP.NET Core using Swashbuckle, covering routing, models, and Swagger configuration.
The author announces switching their tech blog from German to English and migrating from WordPress to Gatsby for better performance and ease of writing.
