Peptides are exploding in the United States. It seems like everybody and their brother is using something. Whether you re talking about weight loss drugs or therapeutic peptides like BPC-157 you probably know somebody who is using them. Now you re curious and want in on the action. But the good stuff isnt FDA approved. Your doctor [ ]
I rage quit Facebook and Instagram. I m close to doing the same with X. Social media a complete dumpster fire. How it continues unfathomable. Content creators made a huge mistake when they left their blogs for things like Facebook or Twitter. They gave up their freedom and control over their content and pretty much got [ ]
I have been ramping up on AI Engineering for a few weeks and it s been a blast. But there are aspects in how AI gets applied that has me scratching my head. Most of the applications I see involve chatting with an application and it is generating a response. Great for things like a support [ ]
Overview Terraform is an awesome tool for created and managing infrastructure resources. However, before you can use it there is setup work you need to do on your workstation. To save time I’ve documented the entire process to get your workstation setup and ready to do terraform development targeting Microsoft Azure. Part of the reason [ ]
I put together a screen cast that shows how I setup new projects in Visual Studio and Azure DevOps (VSTS). My goal is to give you some ideas for setting up your projects and let you see how I do it. If you have your own ideas, please share them. I’m not claiming you must [ ]
For the past year or so I change how I have my workstation configured. I’ve taken pretty good advantage of Hyper-V and the bare metal system itself has very little installed on it. I mostly just do social media and blogging there. I have 2 other VMs that are used for work. One if my [ ]
I prefer working from my office in my house. It’s a million times more comfortable for me and I fill at least a thousand times more productive there than I do anywhere else. However, on-site happens and when it does I need to be able to access my stuff. To make that happen I setup [ ]
Overview As I’ve been learning about Docker and containerization in general I’ve given some thought to how it will impact the way I architect and design my solutions. However, the more I have thought about it the more I think it’s a non-issue. For developers and solution architect nothing has changed. You are still going [ ]
[Source code is available on GitHub] A Docker Stack is a collection of services that make up an application. In this case our stack will consist of an ASP.NET MVC Core web-page, a MySQL database and a load balancer. Doing this using Docker didn’t really pose any significant challenges, but it did remind me to [ ]
As a consultant and a software developer I find that training is the most important activity I engage in. To the point that it is worth giving up billable hours to regularly spend time training. The reason training is a first priority is that if you allow your skills to grow stale you will soon [ ]