Today while adding a new server to an Azure subscription I encountered the following error:

The subscription is not registered to use namespace 'Microsoft.HybridCompute'

In this video I show you how register the Hybrid Compute provider in your subscription to overcome this obstacle.

In this video I show you how to use AWS API Gateway to quickly proxy an existing API.

This video shows you how to create a websocket server in java

Links:

https://www.javainuse.com/spring/boot-websocket

https://start.spring.io/

https://www.websocket.org/echo.html

Azure:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/web-pubsub/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/signalr-service/

AWS:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/apigateway/latest/developerguide/apigateway-websocket-api.html

So you’ve started using terraform

You’ve progressed to creating terraform modules

You’ve put your module in a private bitbucket repo

Now you want to access it from a bitbucket build pipeline and you see the following

Solution In my case I reached out to one of my friendly devops colleagues  @BlnaryMlke who showed me how ssh keys and git hang together, I don’t know if i should be ashamed to say I’ve never used git with ssh keys until today. Armed with this new knowledge I set off to do the same in my bitbucket pipeline only to discover that Bitbucket has some primary support for this scenario! What follows are the steps required in a bitbucket pipeline in order to to use a private git bitbucket repo that contains a terraform module Show me 1) First create a new key in the the project that contains your pipeline (i.e. the project that is including the terraform module), you’ll find this option under project settings, pipelines/ssh keys Image shows that I’ve added a new Key and then added bitbucket.org (fetch gets the fingerprint) 2) Now add the public key to your bitbucket git repo that contains the terraform module, to do this you go to the project settings and choose access keys then add 3) Lastly, you’ll need to configure your terraform module source with the following format That’s it, huge thanks again to @BlnaryMlke for setting me on the right path 4) Bonus Step: If you wish to work outside the bitbucket pipeline and don’t want to use ssh keys but rather your OAuth token you can configure git insteadof to automagically redirect ssh to http

In this video I show you how to configure multiple origins for a single cloudfront distribution

In this video I show you how move application secrets into Azure Key Vault without any code changes.I do this by using a vault access policy.

Note: You'll have to ignore my managed identity references in this video I didn't use them.

In this video I show you how to leverage Azure Managed Identities to allow access between Azure resources.

(excuse the audio quality.. i need to improve on this)

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Appears to be the story of my life lately, just as I get excited and proficient on one stack I get side tracked with something else. The latest stack I’m playing with is the Ionic2 framework, but first some history.

UX Stacks

I’ve written UX applications in many different way in the past

• java swing (albeit i’d never put this on my resume as I can’t recall a single bit of that application i helped a student friend with so many years ago)
• MFC – Oh the pain
• ATL/WTL – Actually i quite like this back in the old C++ days when men were men.
• C# Windows forms – Spent years on this stack and if you’re happy with battleship grey it’s still quite RAD
• WPF/Silverlight – Wrote quite a few applications in this, probably wouldn’t call myself an expert but I can xaml like the next guy
• MVC3+ – Have written and still support a quite a few MVC applications it was the bridge that finally moved me heavily to web client side tech.
• Objective-C/XCode – A handful of iPhone applications, it’s ok, language is a little weird yes but use it for a week read a few books/material and you’ll make a good stab at it.
• Xamarin – A nice approach for writing mobile apps in  c#, problem is you still need to use the native designers (yes i know about xamarin forms.. are we really going to talk about that?)
• Web tech, My transition to the web was a natural progression that leveraged things I’d learned with other frameworks, e.g Knockout was familiar from wpf data binding, angular has somewhat a familiarity to MVC

Ionic2

So what is Ionic2? In short it’s a framework for writing mobile (and progressive) apps. As you’ve seen above I’ve already ways of writing mobile apps, So why something new? Why not! in this world – always be learning!

In my case there were some more compelling reasons,  see for the last year I was an architect and hands on developer for a new web application using angularjs v1 sass, typescript and a tonne of wonderful libraries. Ionic2 is built around the same stacks, applications use angular2, html5, typescript, saas, gulp etc, the list goes on and on. Apparently I’m finding my home in this world, in fact if i was to write a greenfield desktop application I’d seriously consider writing it with html tech and framing with Atom/Electron.

Sample app

Taking the application on the left as an example, I was to create this screen in a few hours, sure i’s not the prettiest and contrasts are high, but the point is that from a blank canvas it only took a few hours to design and implement this screen using Ionic2 and web technologies. I’m a little spoiled as I can somewhat ignore the stubborn elephant in the room *CSS*. i’m targeting the latest devices so I’m getting to use flexbox for layout , css3 transitions etc. I’m seriously convinced that when it comes to writing general purpose mobile applications Ionic2 will be hard to beat. I know if i was to write the same screen in xcode/android studio it would take me a lot longer to implement this design. Check out Ionic2 for yourself you won’t regret it.