Blog Posts

Centralized application settings with Azure App Configuration

7/16/2023

TagAzure
TagKeyVault
TagAppConfiguration

Learn how to use Azure App Configuration to centralize your application settings and feature flags

Microsoft Defender for Cloud: Azure App Service

4/18/2023

TagAzure
TagApp Service
TagDefender for Cloud

Exploring Microsoft Defender for Cloud and its list of recommendations for Azure App Service.

Using Bicep to Deploy Azure Service Bus Queues, Topics, Subscriptions, and Diagnostic Settings

2/5/2023

TagAzure
TagBicep
TagServiceBus

Learn how to use Bicep to Deploy Azure Service Bus Queues, Topics, Subscriptions and configure SAS Policies and Diagnostic Settings.

Using Bicep to Deploy Azure Cosmos DB SQL Role Assignments

9/17/2022

TagRBAC
TagAzure
TagCosmosDB

Learn how to Deploy Azure Cosmos DB SQL Role Assignments using Bicep.

Using Bicep to Deploy Multi-Region Azure SQL and Storage Accounts for Auditing

7/16/2022

TagSQL
TagAzure
TagBicep

Learn how to use Bicep to Deploy Multi-Region Azure SQL and Storage Accounts for Auditing.

Storage Account Key Management using Azure Key Vault

5/8/2022

TagAzure
TagStorage
TagKeyVault

Learn about Storage Account Key Management using the Azure Key Vault service

Secure Access to Storage Account using Azure Active Directory Authorization

5/5/2022

TagAzure
TagStorage
TagSecurity

Learn how to securely access your Storage Account using Azure Active Directory Authorization.

Azure Disk Encryption

5/4/2022

TagIaaS
TagAzure
TagSecurity

Learn how to enable Azure Disk Encryption on your Azure VMs to protect the information in your OS and Data Disks at Rest

Learning C-Sharp’s LINQ coming from a JavaScript background

4/3/2021

Taglinq
TagArrays
Tagcsharp

Learn how to use some of C-Sharp’s LINQ methods and see how these compare to JavaScript’s Array prototype.

Using Array.prototype.map()

6/15/2020

TagArrays
TagJavaScript

JavaScript Arrays provide a lot of useful APIs for interacting with the data they store. Follow along to learn how to use .map()

5 apps, tools, or software I couldn’t do without

4/11/2020

Tagdotnet
Tagsafari
Tagnightowl

Let’s play a game. Mention 5 apps, tools, or software you couldn’t do without and then tag 5 people to share their own. Here are mine.

Data types deprecated in a future version of SQL Server

2/3/2020

Tagdatabase
Tagsqlserver

Microsoft announced 4 data types that will be removed in future versions of SQL Server. This post covers: which types these are; what you should replace them with; and a query for identifying which of your tables / columns are impacted by the change.

Getting started with ASP.NET Core SDK

1/2/2020

Tagcsharp
Tagdotnet
Tagaspnetcore

Learn how to download and install .NET Core 3.1 SDK on macOS. Create your first solution, and build / run a Sample Web API project on the browser.

Apple’s iOS 11.2.2 Update: Spectre Security Patch

1/9/2018

TagApple
TagMobile
TagUpdate

On 01/08/2017, Apple released version 11.2.2 of their mobile operating system iOS. This update includes security improvements to Safari and WebKit to mitigate the effects of Spectre (CVE-2017-5715, CVE-2017-5753).

Apple’s iOS 10.3.2 Security Update: You Probably Shouldn’t Skip It

5/16/2017

TagApple
TagMobile
TagUpdate

On 05/15/2017, Apple released version 10.3.2 of their mobile operating system iOS. This is a minor release in terms of user features, yet big in terms of security. Here’s what’s new, by .@Giovanni0918.

Facebook F8 (2017): Keynote

4/18/2017

TagAI
TagF8
TagVR

Today, 04/18/2017, begins the Facebook F8 (2017) developer conference. This year, it will take place in the McEnery Convention Center, 365 S Market St. San Jose, CA. Here’s what’s been announced.

omdb-search Polymer Element: Find Movie, Series, and Episode data

4/9/2017

TagHow To
TagMovies
TagSeries

omdb-search is a custom element, built by Giovanni Orlando using the Polymer library. It allows you to fetch movie, series, and episode data from the Open Movie Database (OMDb) api. Here’s how to do so.

Apple’s iOS 10.3.1 update: Important Security Patch

4/4/2017

TagOTA
Tag2017
TagApple

Apple released the iOS 10.3.1 update on 04/03/2017, which addresses a vulnerability found by Gal Beniamini, and brings back OTA support to select devices.

New Web Features in Safari 10.1 and iOS 10.3

4/3/2017

TagApple
TagFetch
TagES2016

Safari 10.1 was released, here’s the list of Web features coming to Mac OS 10.12.4 Sierra, and iOS 10.3. Article by Giovanni Orlando (@giovanni0918) #WebKit

Apple’s iOS 10.3 update: What’s New

3/28/2017

TagiOS
TagiPad
TagSiri

Welcome Aboard. On 03/27/2017, Apple released version 10.3 to their mobile operating system, iOS. Here’s everything that’s new! Article by .@Giovanni0918