Latest Blog posts

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13/01/2023

Docker Compose Scaling Gotcha

Today I ran this command:

            docker-compose up -d --scale service1=10

Then ran this command:

            docker-compose up -d --scale anotherservice2=10

What do you think happens?

Well not what I was expecting.

I was expecting service1 to have 10 scaled versions, and `anotherservi...

08/01/2023

Three Years Have Gone

3 years have gone by, and it feels like yesterday. So much has happened, yet so little too.

Families have wained, friendships needed rekindling, and through it all there has been that feeling of emptiness and loss.

3 years without a part of me, 3 years without my whole heart, 3 years withou...

15/12/2022

Testing In Dotnet

Hello, and welcome to my blog post for December 15th of the .NET Advent Calendar 2022.

Organised by Dustin Morris Gorski on Twitter.

I wont tell you about me, but if you are interested, check out my About me page...

07/12/2022

Why Byte Arrays Are A Bad Idea When Dealing With Large Data

Hello, and welcome to my blog post for December 7th of the C# Advent Calendar 2022.

Organised by Matthew Groves & Calvin Allen.

I wont tell you about me, but if you are interested, check out my...

18/11/2022

Azure Static Web App Invalid SSL Certificate

Today i find out, my website was not working.
I had an invalid SSL certificate, it timed out 4 days ago.
Side note - I should set up a Github action to check this and warn me if it is offline.

Checking the SSL cert showed me it had run out.
Now a static web app in Azure has the ability to have cus...

13/07/2022

Reading UDP Packets With SharpPcap

If you are intending on reading UDP packets in promiscuous mode using SharpPcap, then you need to consider the amount of traffic on the network you are going to intercept.

If you are sweeping up packets on a very busy network (think Voip network), then you w...

12/07/2022

How To Confirm 2 Audio Files Are Identical

The tool Audacity has the capability of telling you if 2 audio files are the same.

Here is the process:

Open one of the files.
Import the other (via the File menu)
Select one of the tracks, by clicking in the box area on the left of one of the tracks (where...

01/04/2022

Microsoft Teams Compliance Recording _ Part 2

This is the second post in a series on Microsoft Teams Compliance Recording .

In the first post, I gave an overview of what Compliance Recording with MSTeams entails. With this post, I will talk a bit about the process of building a complianc...

20/03/2022

Microsoft Teams Compliance Recording

This is the first post in a series on Microsoft Teams Compliance Recording .

Microsoft teams has the capability to record all of its calls, both the audio and video.

Anyone can do it by using the record button when in a call, however there i...

05/03/2022

February 2022 Lego Builds

My lego obsession is in full swing now, so I thought I would tell you what I have been building this month.

I have been coveting for months the 76193 - Lego The Guardians' Ship.

I have been told that it has an actual name (Benatar),...