Dr. Shawn Cicoria - CedarLogic,LLC

Shawn Cicoria

Forcing TLS (HTTPS) on Azure Web Apps for Linux with nginx

Forcing TLS (HTTPS) on Azure Web Apps for Linux with nginx

For many websites today TLS (fka SSL) is preferred. For Azure Web Apps, all sites automatically listen on both port 80 and 443 - for HTTP and HTTPS respectively. If you want to force the site to be only HTTPS you might think that you can just detect the $scheme

Cool tool for npm packages and having a local cache

Cool tool for npm packages and having a local cache

Verdaccio, a fork of Sinopia, to the rescue... use with each command or set forever... npm install --registry http://localhost:4978 Good also to know that sometimes the HTTPS connections are that much slower (airplane Wifi); for that use the non-TLS endpoint: npm install --registry http://registry.npmjs.org/ FOOBAR

Quickly get an Ethereum Geth miner node standalone

Quickly get an Ethereum Geth miner node standalone

I know there are other scripts, etc. out there. But I can't seem to find them when I need them. So, I created a GitHub repo that contains a set of scripts and simple steps that will download Geth, initialize the chain, then run a miner locally with

Ensuring Initializing and Server Side Configuration with Angular 4+

Ensuring Initializing and Server Side Configuration with Angular 4+

Introduction During the build of the Blockchain Proof of Concept Framework we determined that for greatest configurability and simplistic deployment we needed to have some configuration settings provided by a simple REST service. The website itself for the client is an Angular 4 application and can be served using a

Using Private Docker Registry and Azure WebApps on Linux with ARM Templates

Using Private Docker Registry and Azure WebApps on Linux with ARM Templates

Took a bit of decoding, but an approach to deploy via Azure ARM templates to Azure WebApps on Linux (Preview now), the special properties needed are as follows: { "name": "appsettings", "type": "config", "apiVersion": "2016-03-01", "dependsOn": [ "

Code Theater with Ali Hajimirza - Blockchain Solves a Webjet problem

Code Theater with Ali Hajimirza - Blockchain Solves a Webjet problem

Checkout Ali's presentation from Microsoft //Build code theater. Ali Hajimirza - @Ali92HM

Removing Azure CLI (Python version)

Removing Azure CLI (Python version)

As with many developers churn happens. So, with the Azure CLI I had installed it previously using pip. However, that's no longer the recommend practice. So, the Azure CLI installs many packages. I needed a 1 liner to uninstall the packages. This is what I used. pip list