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Automation
Using Azure Automation & PowerShell for Slack channel notifications
Details how you can trigger slack notifications from Azure Automation from any data source. For this example, I use a user controlled table in an Atlassian C...
Check BizTalk application references in BTDF via PowerShell
At most client sites we utilise the BizTalk Deployment Framework for packaging up and deploying our BizTalk applications and their associated artefacts (BAM,...
Remote PowerShell via Azure Automation with Azure AD
So why use Azure Automation?
Azure
Azure App Services announced
Microsoft announced Azure App Services today. This will definitely be a technology to watch to see how the future of BizTalk development may evolve. However ...
BizTalk
Automating BizTalk Hosts, Host Instances and Handlers
Details how you can create your BizTalk Hosts, Host Instances and Adapter Handlers in seconds rather than hours!
BTDF in Visual Studio 2015
Workaround for getting BTDF to work with BizTalk 2016 and Visual Studio 2015. [UPDATE: This workaround is no longer required. BTDF is now updated]
32 or 64 bit Hosts in your BizTalk application?
A few days ago, a question was asked at the office about the 32 bit vs 64 bit options for our BizTalk Hosts.
Issue with BTDF not deploying to GAC in multi server installs
We utilise the BizTalk Deployment Framework (BTDF) for deploying our BizTalk applications. It is a very useful utility and would strongly recommend checking ...
Storing BizTalk application version via BTDF
The issue A few weeks ago I saw a very interesting Integration Monday talk session by Toon Vanhoutte which you can view here.
Blog
A new son is born!
We now have a second son to introduce to the world!
Intrepid?
Dictionary.reference.com defines Intrepid as:
Nathan is here!
I have been really really slack with this site hey?
When will junior be born?
We are now at week 41 of Femke’s pregnancy.
Not long now!
Tomorrow is Femke’s last day at her work for about 9 months!
An addition to the family!
I don’t know if many or any people are still following this blog? However I do just want to proudly announce that my future wife to be Femke is now about 8 w...
Macbook Pro
Most of you already know that on my personal PC side, I have switched from PC to Mac. After using an iPhone for over a year by that time I was curious about ...
Wow… time does fly!
Wow. it’s been over a year since I have touched this site.
House Hunting
Femke now has her residency visa, so now we move on to setting up our own lives together.
Journey back to Australia
Sadly I had to leave the Netherlands to return to Australia by myself. I did have some issues on the flight back too.
Immigration Dramas
Things are not quite going to plan with regards to staying and working in the Netherlands.
Immigration Dramas
Things are not quite going to plan with regards to staying and working in the Netherlands.
Back in Australia (for now)
a small break in australia between the New Zealand and Netherland adventures
Whanganui Canoe Trip
This is the story of the biggest adventure we had in our entire New Zealand travel holiday! We are just glad to have survived it!
A bit of snow
I have not seen a lot of snow in my life, so it was a big deal for me when it happened in Christchurch!
Yet more blog changes
Some behind the scenes changes of my blog web site
Whoa… this looks different!
Blog engine migration from blooger to wordpress
Queenstown - White water rafting and Dear Park Heights
DFirst post of our week long stay at Queenstown
Queenstown - Arrival and the Gondola
DFirst post of our week long stay at Queenstown
Wanaka
Details our travels to Wanaka and the Rob Roy hike
Fox Glacier
Several days at Fox Glacier and taking in the local sights.
Several Ponderings so far…
Several thoughts I have after one month of a travelling lifestyle..
Frans Josef Glacier
Details about the three days we spent at Frans Joseph glacier. Stunning photos and views
Greymouth to Frans Josef
A pretty dull drive from Greymouth to Frans Josef. But it picked up dramatically towards the end!
Greymouth
It was a stunning drive from Westport to Greymouth.
Westport
Not a great deal happened on the journey to Westport and while we were there.
Nelson Lakes National Park
Details the adventures and mishaps we had at Nelson Lakes right after the Abel Tasman hike.
Abel Tasman Coastal Track
Big blog post about our first great hike! the Abel Tasman Costal Track!
Welcome to the South Island
After a while in Wellington, it was time to say goodbye (for now) to our relatives and move on to the South Island.
Windy Wellington
Catching up with Jeff, Cath, Jarrod and Jack in Wellington
The long road south
Details of our trip from Auckland to Wellington
A minor setback
A small thing causes a few delays to our trip
Auckland Coast to Coast walk
Info about our first serious decent walk in Auckland, New Zealand
Out and about in Auckland
Stories and photos out and about in Auckland
Setting up base camp
Getting ready for the big trip while in Auckland
A grand adventure!
The start of something big
New Laptop
Investigations into getting a new laptop
New hearing aids!
Not many good audiologists out there any more.
Create your own books!
How you can create awesome and professional looking books from your computer!
Water Woes
Cheap and nasty cost cutting during one of Brisbane’s worst droughts
We ain’t joking about domains
How I purchased my first domain
Feel the power! I mean speed!
I finally get faster internet!
New Camera Gear
Details of my new camera gear
A shot of Brisbane city
Photos of Brisbane city at night
Weekend in Sydney
Summary of weekend photography trip to Sydney with Bronwen and John
Dirt Bike Shots
Testing out new camera gear by taking photos of a mate’s dirt bike in action
MSDE is a real pain!
Issues with MS SQL Server Desktop Edition
I love my new digital camera
Discussing what I like about my new digital camera
Computers
The joys of playing with beta software on beta operating systems
Fun and games with beta versions of Kaspersky Anti Virus on beta Windows 7!
Confluence
Confluence 5.8.4 crashing unexpectedly?
We utilise Atlassian Confluence for our internal wiki.
Optimising Confluence performance on SQL Server 2014
Internally we have a Confluence wiki for our knowledge base. Confluence is regarded as the market leader for wiki systems out there and we enjoy using it int...
Family
A new son is born!
We now have a second son to introduce to the world!
Goodbye my mother
This is very hard one for me to write.
Nathan is here!
I have been really really slack with this site hey?
When will junior be born?
We are now at week 41 of Femke’s pregnancy.
Not long now!
Tomorrow is Femke’s last day at her work for about 9 months!
An addition to the family!
I don’t know if many or any people are still following this blog? However I do just want to proudly announce that my future wife to be Femke is now about 8 w...
Wow… time does fly!
Wow. it’s been over a year since I have touched this site.
House Hunting
Femke now has her residency visa, so now we move on to setting up our own lives together.
Hearing
New hearing aids!
Not many good audiologists out there any more.
Create your own books!
How you can create awesome and professional looking books from your computer!
Ignite
Off to Microsoft Ignite in New Zealand!
This year Mexia are sending several co-workers and I to the Microsoft Ignite conference to be held in Auckland, New Zealand.
Internet
We ain’t joking about domains
How I purchased my first domain
Feel the power! I mean speed!
I finally get faster internet!
Jekyll
First Jekyll Blog Post!
Why I migrated to Jekyll from Ghost.
Mexia
Guest Blog post - Linking Team City and Octopus Deploy
Check out a blog post covering TeamCity and Octopus Deploy that I wrote for the Deloitte site.
Netherlands
A Dutch Life
My thoughts reflecting back on life in the Netherlands for 3 months and how it compares to Australia.
Journey back to Australia
Sadly I had to leave the Netherlands to return to Australia by myself. I did have some issues on the flight back too.
Immigration Dramas
Things are not quite going to plan with regards to staying and working in the Netherlands.
Immigration Dramas
Things are not quite going to plan with regards to staying and working in the Netherlands.
Back in Australia (for now)
a small break in australia between the New Zealand and Netherland adventures
New Zealand
Back in Australia (for now)
a small break in australia between the New Zealand and Netherland adventures
Whanganui Canoe Trip
This is the story of the biggest adventure we had in our entire New Zealand travel holiday! We are just glad to have survived it!
A bit of snow
I have not seen a lot of snow in my life, so it was a big deal for me when it happened in Christchurch!
Queenstown - White water rafting and Dear Park Heights
DFirst post of our week long stay at Queenstown
Queenstown - Arrival and the Gondola
DFirst post of our week long stay at Queenstown
Wanaka
Details our travels to Wanaka and the Rob Roy hike
Fox Glacier
Several days at Fox Glacier and taking in the local sights.
Several Ponderings so far…
Several thoughts I have after one month of a travelling lifestyle..
Frans Josef Glacier
Details about the three days we spent at Frans Joseph glacier. Stunning photos and views
Greymouth to Frans Josef
A pretty dull drive from Greymouth to Frans Josef. But it picked up dramatically towards the end!
Greymouth
It was a stunning drive from Westport to Greymouth.
Westport
Not a great deal happened on the journey to Westport and while we were there.
Nelson Lakes National Park
Details the adventures and mishaps we had at Nelson Lakes right after the Abel Tasman hike.
Abel Tasman Coastal Track
Big blog post about our first great hike! the Abel Tasman Costal Track!
Welcome to the South Island
After a while in Wellington, it was time to say goodbye (for now) to our relatives and move on to the South Island.
Windy Wellington
Catching up with Jeff, Cath, Jarrod and Jack in Wellington
The long road south
Details of our trip from Auckland to Wellington
A minor setback
A small thing causes a few delays to our trip
Auckland Coast to Coast walk
Info about our first serious decent walk in Auckland, New Zealand
Out and about in Auckland
Stories and photos out and about in Auckland
Setting up base camp
Getting ready for the big trip while in Auckland
A grand adventure!
The start of something big
Photography
New Camera Gear
Details of my new camera gear
A shot of Brisbane city
Photos of Brisbane city at night
Weekend in Sydney
Summary of weekend photography trip to Sydney with Bronwen and John
Dirt Bike Shots
Testing out new camera gear by taking photos of a mate’s dirt bike in action
I love my new digital camera
Discussing what I like about my new digital camera
PowerShell
Automating BizTalk Hosts, Host Instances and Handlers
Details how you can create your BizTalk Hosts, Host Instances and Adapter Handlers in seconds rather than hours!
How to get PowerShellGet working with no Internet access
Assistance for setting up local PowerShellGet with no external internet access.
Use PowerShell to enable or disable tracking for selected BizTalk Applications
For a current client project we are using the excellent BizTalk Deployment Framework for deploying our BizTalk applications. This works great, except it can ...
Retrospective
A Dutch Life
My thoughts reflecting back on life in the Netherlands for 3 months and how it compares to Australia.
Software
Visual Studio Code
Why I recommend Visual Studio Code as your main text editor.
Tech
How to define output values for dynamically created terraform resources
Not sure how to get output details with for_each loop created terraform resources? Use the zipmap function.
One thing to do if AWS accounts are changed on your Terraform project
Getting puzzled by permissions issues when you change AWS accounts on an existing terraform project? See how to fix this issue quickly!
How to reference data objects via for_each with Terraform
See how you can easily reference more complex data types with the for_each command in Terraform.
Lessons learnt from deploying Azure Search via CI-CD
Learn about how you can overcome some limitations when deploying Azure Search Service indexes via your CI/CD automation pipeline.
A complete 180 in the tech stack
Details about my dramatic shift in tech stack learning.
Technology
Intrepid?
Dictionary.reference.com defines Intrepid as:
Macbook Pro
Most of you already know that on my personal PC side, I have switched from PC to Mac. After using an iPhone for over a year by that time I was curious about ...
The joys of playing with beta software on beta operating systems
Fun and games with beta versions of Kaspersky Anti Virus on beta Windows 7!
Yet more blog changes
Some behind the scenes changes of my blog web site
Whoa… this looks different!
Blog engine migration from blooger to wordpress
New Laptop
Investigations into getting a new laptop
New hearing aids!
Not many good audiologists out there any more.
Create your own books!
How you can create awesome and professional looking books from your computer!
We ain’t joking about domains
How I purchased my first domain
Feel the power! I mean speed!
I finally get faster internet!
New Camera Gear
Details of my new camera gear
A shot of Brisbane city
Photos of Brisbane city at night
MSDE is a real pain!
Issues with MS SQL Server Desktop Edition
Travel
Journey back to Australia
Sadly I had to leave the Netherlands to return to Australia by myself. I did have some issues on the flight back too.
Immigration Dramas
Things are not quite going to plan with regards to staying and working in the Netherlands.
Immigration Dramas
Things are not quite going to plan with regards to staying and working in the Netherlands.
Back in Australia (for now)
a small break in australia between the New Zealand and Netherland adventures
Whanganui Canoe Trip
This is the story of the biggest adventure we had in our entire New Zealand travel holiday! We are just glad to have survived it!
A bit of snow
I have not seen a lot of snow in my life, so it was a big deal for me when it happened in Christchurch!
Queenstown - White water rafting and Dear Park Heights
DFirst post of our week long stay at Queenstown
Queenstown - Arrival and the Gondola
DFirst post of our week long stay at Queenstown
Wanaka
Details our travels to Wanaka and the Rob Roy hike
Fox Glacier
Several days at Fox Glacier and taking in the local sights.
Several Ponderings so far…
Several thoughts I have after one month of a travelling lifestyle..
Frans Josef Glacier
Details about the three days we spent at Frans Joseph glacier. Stunning photos and views
Greymouth to Frans Josef
A pretty dull drive from Greymouth to Frans Josef. But it picked up dramatically towards the end!
Greymouth
It was a stunning drive from Westport to Greymouth.
Westport
Not a great deal happened on the journey to Westport and while we were there.
Nelson Lakes National Park
Details the adventures and mishaps we had at Nelson Lakes right after the Abel Tasman hike.
Abel Tasman Coastal Track
Big blog post about our first great hike! the Abel Tasman Costal Track!
Welcome to the South Island
After a while in Wellington, it was time to say goodbye (for now) to our relatives and move on to the South Island.
Windy Wellington
Catching up with Jeff, Cath, Jarrod and Jack in Wellington
The long road south
Details of our trip from Auckland to Wellington
A minor setback
A small thing causes a few delays to our trip
Auckland Coast to Coast walk
Info about our first serious decent walk in Auckland, New Zealand
Out and about in Auckland
Stories and photos out and about in Auckland
Setting up base camp
Getting ready for the big trip while in Auckland
A grand adventure!
The start of something big
Weekend in Sydney
Summary of weekend photography trip to Sydney with Bronwen and John
Wine
Reviewing red wine
My post about informally reviewing red wine.