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… and regardless of cloud provider, it’s (probably) costing you 2x what it would on dedicated kit. So AWS could be costing you 4x what it would cost to license on dedicated hardware.
Disclaimer: I am certainly not a SQL Server licensing expert, nor that much of a cloud expert. The purpose of this post is to hopefully prove that … Read more “Licensing SQL Server in AWS? It’s up to twice as expensive as Azure or Rackspace Cloud.”
Today I head to Gran Canaria for a month. Not for holiday, but to work. I’ll be leaving my friends and work colleagues back in London, whilst trying to convince them that this isn’t all about sitting on a beach and surfing all day long.
I’ve always read with admiration and a fair dose of jealousy the stories from various … Read more “Starting a remote working journey”
NDepend is an analysis tool giving you all kinds of code quality metrics, but also tools to drill down into dependencies, and query and enforce rules over your code base.
There’s a version that integrates with Visual Studio, but there’s also a version that runs on the console to generate static reports, and enforce any code rules you might have … Read more “Integrating NDepend metrics into your Build using F# Make & TeamCity”
I’ve previously depended a little too much on TeamCity to construct our build process, but have been increasingly shifting everything to our build scripts (and therefore source control).
We’ve been using F# make – an awesome cross platform build automation tool like make & rake.
As an aside (before you ask): The dotCover support in TeamCity is already excellent – … Read more “Code coverage using dotCover and F# make”
If you’re running a HTTPS-only web application, then you probably have requireSSL set to true in your web.config like so:
<httpCookies requireSSL=”true” httpOnlyCookies=”true”With requireSSL set, any cookies ASP.NET sends with the HTTP response – in particular, the forms authentication cookies – will have the “secure” flag set. This ensures that they will only be sent to your website when … Read more “SSL Termination and Secure Cookies/requireSSL with ASP.NET Forms Authentication”
As it took far too much Googling to find this, if you need to access the AppData folder for the System account, go here:
C:\Windows\System32\config\systemprofile\AppData\Local C:\Windows\SysWOW64\config\systemprofile\AppData\Local I hit this because we needed to clear the NuGet package cache for a TeamCity build agent which was running as a service under the System account.
At FundApps we run a regular SkipFish scan against our application as one of our tools for monitoring for security vulnerabilities. In order for it to test beyond our login page, we need to provide a valid .ASPXAUTH cookie (you’ve renamed it, right?) to the tool.
Because we want to prevent Cross-site request forgeries to our login pages, we’re using … Read more “Get ASP.NET auth cookie using PowerShell (when using AntiForgeryToken)”
GulpJS is a great Node-based build system following in the footsteps of Grunt but with (in my opinion) a much simpler and more intuitive syntax. Gulp takes advantage of the streaming feature of NodeJs which is incredibly powerful, but means in order for you to get the most out of Gulp, you certainly need some understanding of what is going … Read more “Using Gulp – packaging files by folder”
I hit this issue a while back, and someone else just tripped up on it so thought it was worth posting here. If you’ve got loginUrl in your Forms Authentication configuration in web.config set, but your ASP.NET Forms or MVC app has suddenly started redirecting to ~/Account/Login for no apparent reason, then the new simpleMembership(ish) provider is getting in the … Read more “Forms Authentication loginUrl ignored”
At FundApps we love the SSL Labs tool from Qualys for checking best practice on our SSL implementations. They recently announced a bunch of changes introducing stricter security requirements for 2014, and a new A+ grade – so I was curious what it would take to achieve the new A+ grading. There are a few things required to now achieve … Read more “Achieving an A+ grading at Qualys SSL Labs (Forward Secrecy in IIS)”
Scott recently announced support for point-to-site VPN connections into Azure – awesome! But what might not be so clear is how to enable it on your existing Virtual Network configuration – because you can’t make changes (at least through the UI) to your virtual network after it has been deployed and is in use.
Fortunately, there appears to be a … Read more “Updating Azure Virtual Network to use point-to-site feature”
By default Visual Studio (as a x86/32bit process) will always launch the 32bit version of IIS Express. If you have components that specifically require running under 64bit, you can can configure Visual Studio 2012 to use IIS Express x64 version by setting the following registry key:
reg add HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\11.0\WebProjects /v Use64BitIISExpress /t REG_DWORD /d 1
You should note that this … Read more “Configure Visual Studio 2012 to use 64 bit version of IIS Express”