Best backgrounds for Video Conference Calls with Teams or Zoom

As more and more tools like Microsoft Teams or Zoom support custom background images for video chat, here are my personal favorites.

azuredevops

Run an Azure Pipelines Job only, if source code has changed

When using DevOps pipelines like Azure Pipelines, you might want to skip certain stages or jobs, if your source code has not changed since the last run.

Kubernetes

Backup, restore and migrate Kubernetes resources including state to another AKS cluster with Velero

Velero is a backup and restore solution for Kubernetes, that can be used to take backups and restore them in case of loss but also for migrating to other clusters.

Kubernetes

Using SignalR and other WebSockets in Kubernetes behind an NGINX Ingress Controller

When using Ingress in Kubernetes, the NGINX Ingress Controller presents a default options for many. When you application is using WebSocket and frameworks like SignalR, the NGINX should be adjusted for that use-case.

Useful Developer Tools

Manage all your installed software at one place with Homebrew Bundle

In software development, you often manage all your dependencies through a package manager like NPM or NuGet. When it comes to software on our operating systems, we often break with this concept and install software from all various places. Homebrew Bundle takes back control.

Useful Developer Tools

Useful Developer Tools #11: Port Manager

We've all been there: You fire up a project in your terminal and are interrupted by an obnoxious "EADDRINUSE" message. Well, no more! Port Manager will spare you countless minutes

Angular

Dynamically set Angular Environment Variables in Docker

Angular's environment variables are baked into the application on every build and not meant to be changed afterwards by default. This requires a separate build for every environment. In the world of containers it is common, to configure the app via environment variables. Here is how to achieve that.

announcements

Microsoft Ignite 2019: Cloud Native Highlights

Microsoft's yearly Ignite Conference took place last week and brought us a bunch of new announcements around Microsoft Azure. Here are my highlights from a cloud-native perspective summarized together with a list of session recording recommendations!

Kubernetes

Restart a node in AKS

Sometimes, single nodes in your AKS clusters might behave in a strange way. Usually, the self-healing capabilities of Kubernetes should detect that and replace the node. From time to time, you might decide to restart a single node manually.

Kubernetes

Use Azure KeyVault with ASP.NET Core running in an AKS cluster using AAD Pod Identity

Azure Key Vault in combination with Managed Identity keeps all secrets out of environment variables in AKS.

Angular

Automatic scrolling, only if a user already scrolled the bottom of a page in Angular

In chat windows or similar growing lists, users often expect, that a page automatically scrolls to the latest item. That behavior obviously should get stopped, when a user scrolls through the list and is not viewing that latest item currently. Here is how to achieve that in Angular.

xbox

Use the Sony WH-1000XM3 with your Xbox One for Game Sound and Voice Chat

A few month ago, I wrote about how to use the Bose Quiet Comfort 35 with an Xbox One Controller for both, Game Sound and Voice Chat. As my Bose

terrafrom

Azure Key Vault references for Application Settings with Terraform

Keep secrets not only out of your code but also out of your Application Settings. Here is how to configure that with Terraform ensuring that the latest version will be used.

Personal Setup

How I built my Dream Desk

Last summer, I spent a day in my garage to build the perfect standing desk for my home office which is adjustable in height, supports wireless charging, hides all cables away from me and has indirect lights.

announcements

Microsoft Build 2019: App Developer Highlights

For Microsoft Build 2019, I have tried to summarize the most important announcements for Application Developers, Cloud Native fans and Data & AI engineers here at one place.

coding style

Enforcing a consistent Coding Style across projects and programming languages

Coding with style is hard. Especially because it is a very personal and opinionated thing – as always when it comes to style. To not offend anyone in the team but

API Management

Control ingress to AKS with Azure API Management

In this blog post, we will discuss, how to use Azure API Management as an ingress point for AKS services, that are not exposed publically and how other services in

announcements

Microsoft Connect 2018: App Innovation Highlights

This week, Microsoft Connect(); 2018, one of the companies smaller developer conferences took place in Las Vegas and the internet. All sessions are also available on-demand. During the keynote and

gaming

Use the Bose Quiet Comfort 35 with your Xbox One for Game Sound and Voice Chat

The headphone situation on Xbox One is a bit messy. Some older controllers don’t have headphone outputs at all, others support different standards and cables. The Bose Quiet Comfort

azure

Check if Pull Requests violate EditorConfig rules with Azure DevOps Pipelines

If you work in a project with multiple different developers, you might be using EditorConfig to standardize the coding styles and file formats across your team members. EditorConfig helps developers

MacOS

Make the Mac great and again! With increased usability, especially for Windows users

It’s not a secret, that using a Mac as my main device in the Microsoft world is a little bit exotic. I have to admit:I love this device!

announcements

Microsoft Ignite 2018: App Innovation Highlights

This week, Microsoft’s yearly Ignite Conference took place in Orlando, Florida. Ignite focuses mostly on cloud topics and is beside Microsoft Build the second biggest Microsoft IT conference of

azure

Deploy an Azure Web App for Containers with Terraform

If you are doing modern web development these days, chances are high that you do it with Docker Containers. If you are creating modern cloud architectures these days, chances are

Mac

Useful Developer Tools #10: Open folders in Visual Studio Code right from Finder in macOS

If you work with Visual Studio Code on a Mac, you might benefit from an easy way to directly open the current Finder folder in the Editor. While Windows users

announcements

Microsoft Build 2018: App Innovation Highlights

From Monday to Wednesday, //build 2018 conference took place in Seattle. It’s in the nature of Microsoft’s largest and most importantdeveloper conference to announce a bunch of