A while ago, I read/studied this new book, which is written by Nagaraj Venkatesan and Ahmad Osama. At the time, I wanted to write about it, but I never got around to it because of a lack of time. Now, I finally got to it and I hope it will help you in your journey of understanding/becoming an Azure Data Engineer. (Or …

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Last week, I completed the certification exam for "Azure data engineer associate" (DP-203). Since I put in quite some effort and successfully completed the exam in one go, I wanted to share how I studied and which materials I studied . First of al, my background is not in the data world. This means that I was …

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I read/studied this book, written by as part of my certification journey towards "Azure Data Engineer". In this post, I want to discuss the book and how it has helped me in studying for my certification exam. A lot of the materials out there cover the different technologies, that are covered in the exam, and …

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Last month, I wanted to Learn more about Azure bicep and in that context I started looking for interesting content. One of the resources that I found is the book "Getting started with Bicep: infra as code on Azure" (link) The goal of this post/review is provide you with a overview of the book written by Freek …

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Last month, I have been using some of my spare time to read up Azure bicep . The goal was to learn about this (relatively) new technology/language. Because I want to help you find your way in to this domain of (Azure Specific) Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tech, I wrote something about it. I hope that it will help you …

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Last week I found a little gem that is too good to keep it for myself. For years, I have been using (and working with) Microsoft Azure and in all this time and it is only now that this cool website pops up! In order to better understand what I'm talking about, I need to go a little more in detail in the design process …

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Today, I'm going to write about a lesser known feature that you can find in Microsoft Edge (but also in Google Chrome). Both are chromium based browsers and both have the well known and widely used "Guest mode". This mode allows you to work in Edge (or in chrome) without the (security) context that you have …

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This morning I saw a colleague working in Git-Bash and the good-old-fashioned "windows command line" and I thought to myself, why doesn't he "just" use Windows terminal? So, I showed him Windows Terminal and he was impressed. First thing he asked then, was if it would be possible to add Git-Bash as …

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For years and years, we all have been copying an pasting stuff on our PC. Chances are real that you typically had to copy specific things over and over again and that this action cost you a lot of time. The so called "problem" was that there could be only one item stored in the clipboard and each time …

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This post is one that I have been willing to write for a while and it has been sitting in in my drafts folder since march. It's a bit sad/funny having to say this as this post is about time management and/or time keeping. All I know is that, as is the case for the most of you, I don't have enough time and that I …

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This morning, I tried setting up an Azure Active Directory B2C tenant and link it to a newly created Azure subscription. Everything seemed to be OK until I clicked on the "create button". Almost immediately, I got an error stating the following: I thought it was related to the fact that it was a …

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When you work with Azure (DevOps) Pipelines and use Azure Repos (Git) in combination with Git submodules, then there are a few things that you need to take into account if you want to use those submodules in your build pipeline(s) an if you want those pipelines to successfully 😉 I'm writing this here because we have …

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Over the past few years, A lot of you all have been adopting Visual Studio Code as your primary "Code editor/workspace". One of the biggest issues that I have, is that I really love working with VSCode and here is why that is an issue for me: For the last few weeks/months, I've had to work on (remote) …

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If you are in an enterprise context where you work with .net development teams, the chances are real that they use a "Visual studio license" and that this license is managed in what is called an "Enterprise Agreement". This agreement allows organizations to buy "Visual Studio Licenses" …

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In previous posts, I wrote about migrating builds to TeamCity and after that back to Azure DevOps . Next to that, I talked about "setting up an Enterprise Cake build framework" and getting Cake to work in Azure DevOps (artifacts) to make those migrations easier in an enterprise context, where a lot of build …

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