First post of 2022 in March? Sorry for that, it took a while to get traction this year. I have a habit of “starting over” with my development environment once a year at a minimum. That means that I reinstall the OS from scratch and all my tools. This is actually fun and not hard to do at all, but can it be automated? Yes, powershell + chocolatey is a good answer to this....
Let’s start with some context so things make sense. I’ve created a vue project back in 2018. It is the largest project I work on regularly and we’ve done a decent job to keep everything up to date in it. This project is built by Azure DevOps hosted servers and recently the builds started failing because of node-sass. Let’s talk about the problem, and how we can fix it. First, you should know that node-sass is no longer recommended....
SQL Server system-versioned temporal tables provide a powerful way to keep data history for a table. It provides a way to query data as of a point in time, or the changes between a time period. Check the docs for more detail. While history tables are great for many scenarios based off history data. When you need to calculate delta changes it gets a little more complicated as I am sure Temporal Tables were not designed for that purpose....
So, the first obvious question is: what’s wrong with Jekyll? Overall, Jekyll is fine. I just never liked how hard it is to install it on Windows. For the most part, I made most of my blog changes blindly. That includes structure, style, and blog posts. The next big question is: why Hugo? Well… It is super easy to install for one. But it is also popular, easy to use, and works similarly to Jekyll....
The expectations surrounding app releases have changed greatly in the last several years. From months-long release cycles to release many times in a day. In part, this is made possible by smaller applications powered by micro services and some of the typical technologies employed with these applications. In particular, Containers bring a lot of new capabilities including easier deployments via orchestration tools such as Kubernetes. As a developer and team lead, one of the best added benefits of containers is how easy it is to spin up an environment for each change....