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OpenSource Blogging with Jekyll GitHub VSCode Part2

9th of March, 2020 / / No Comments

During Part 1 of this series I introduced you to open source blogging using some awesome tools and platforms available today. I also shared my own setup so you can see what’s involved end-to-end.

Shortly I’ll provide a detailed walkthrough of everything you need to get started with your own blog site.

Local Blog Development

First we need to setup our local development environment for the blog site by installing a few dependencies.… [Keep reading] “OpenSource Blogging with Jekyll GitHub VSCode Part2”

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OpenSource Blogging with Jekyll GitHub VSCode Part1

17th of February, 2020 / / No Comments

Kicking off the new year brought forward a renewed motivation to join the community of tech bloggers.

In this blog series I’ll share everything you need to know to get you setup with your own blog site, for free, using open source tooling such as Jekyll, GitHub, and Visual Studio Code.

To start off here’s an overview of my blogging toolkit:

A collection of helpful links can be found here.

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VSCode Virtual Environments using your Browser

10th of April, 2019 / / No Comments

It’s no secret I’m a huge fan of virtual environments and PowerShell. Late last year I wrote this series on Nested Virtual PowerShell Desktop Environments on Windows 10 & Windows Server 2019 in Azure A lot of the back story for that three post series was to have virtual environments for PowerShell.

Moving forward six months and I’m at the beginning of the journey towards migrating from PowerShell Desktop to PowerShell Core. The quickest way to get started with PowerShell Core is to use the Windows 10 feature of Windows Subsystem for Linux.… [Keep reading] “VSCode Virtual Environments using your Browser”

How to build and deploy an Azure NodeJS WebApp using Visual Studio Code

5th of June, 2017 / / No Comments 
Update April 2019  The presentation in this post 
updates the later section of this post whereby you 
can easily publish your app to Azure without needing 
to do all the manual FTP steps.

Introduction

This week I had the need to build a small web application with a reasonably simple front end that will later be integrated inside a Portal. The web application isn’t going to be high use and didn’t necessitate deployment of infrastructure (VM’s).… [Keep reading] “How to build and deploy an Azure NodeJS WebApp using Visual Studio Code”