Azure

I thought I’d seen it all when it comes to cold call virus scammers, you know, the guys who call you up from “Windows” because they’ve had reports of viruses from your machine? I’ve recorded their audio [https://www.troyhunt.com/2011/10/anatomy-of-virus-call-centre-scam.html], recorded their video [https://www.troyhunt.com/2012/02/scamming-scammers-catching-virus-call.html], antagonised them [https://www.troyhunt.com/2012/04/type-www-ok-w-w-w-d-o-t-antagonising.html], interviewed one of the blo...

These real world experiences with Azure are now available in the Pluralsight course "Modernizing Your Websites with Azure Platform as a Service" [http://www.pluralsight.com/courses/modernizing-websites-microsoft-azure]I had a little problem last week. I built a very small website [http://haveibeenpwned.com] – really just a one pager with a single API – whacked it up on an Azure website and then promptly had a quarter of a million people visit it in three days. Uh, bugger? Ok, what’s behind the...

These real world experiences with Azure are now available in the Pluralsight course "Modernizing Your Websites with Azure Platform as a Service" [http://www.pluralsight.com/courses/modernizing-websites-microsoft-azure]I’m one of these people that must learn by doing. Yes, I’m sure all those demos look very flashy and the code appears awesome, but unless I can do it myself then I have trouble really buying into it. And I really want to buy into Azure because frankly, it’s freakin’ awesome. This...

These real world experiences with Azure are now available in the Pluralsight course "Modernizing Your Websites with Azure Platform as a Service" [http://www.pluralsight.com/courses/modernizing-websites-microsoft-azure]So I had this plan: I was going to download the (very unfortunate) Adobe data breach [http://stricture-group.com/files/not-adobe.7z], suck it into SQL Server, do the usual post-import data clean up then try and draw some insightful conclusions from what I saw. Good in theory and so...

These real world experiences with Azure are now available in the Pluralsight course "Modernizing Your Websites with Azure Platform as a Service" [http://www.pluralsight.com/courses/modernizing-websites-microsoft-azure]Note: In this blog post I show how to load a certificate from StartCom into Azure. They've subsequently had some pretty serious issues related to WoSign [https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2016/10/24/distrusting-new-wosign-and-startcom-certificates/] and I would not recommend getti...

Unfortunately the tyranny of distance has kept me well and truly away from Microsoft PDC09 [http://microsoftpdc.com] but it hasn’t meant I’ve had to miss out completely. Seeing so much exciting information released about new technology (which happens to be my favourite kind!) made me want to get what excited me down online. Silverlight 4 Beta In case you’re feeling like it was only yesterday that Silverlight 3 was released, you’re almost right; it was back in July. The velocity of this product...