Unfortunately due to NDA and other fun things, I can’t talk about how all the modules on microsoft.com/learn are made. The other problem is that each module doesn’t include any author information.

What I’m listing here are modules that I have a personal interest in, and might have had a hand in creating :)

• Protect your virtual machines with Azure Backup
• Protect your on-premises infrastructure from disasters with Azure Site Recovery
• Choose the appropriate API for Azure Cosmos DB storage
• More to come at Microsoft Learn

Storing variables

I want to store the Resource Group name in a variable to use in a bash script.

RgName=`az group list --query '[].name' --output tsv`

The ` back tick is important - as it executes the command inside. Or just found out you can use:

RgName=$(az group list --query '[].name' --output tsv)

Step 1

Build your static HTML website - you can use WordPress and the great wp2static plugin if you want.

Step 2

Jekyllify your static HTML (see the offical documentation)

Step 3

Add Netlify CMS (full guide)

Step 4

Git push - site is live!

Are you using Jekyll post-build actions on Netlify?

I was, had updated my build environment on my Mac (OS X Mojave). I could not get it to build - the errors:

7:41:05 PM: You must use Bundler 2 or greater with this lockfile.
7:41:05 PM: Error during gem install
7:41:05 PM: Error running command: Build script returned non-zero exit code: 1
7:41:05 PM: Failing build: Failed to build site
7:41:05 PM: failed during stage 'building site': Build script returned non-zero exit code: 1

The Gemfile.lock had this line at the bottom:

BUNDLED WITH
   2.0.1

So what was wrong, I was building my site with Bundler 2. The problem was I was building with Bundler 2, but Netlify build servers are currently using 1.17.1. Thus Netlify build servers are currently out of date. So on my machine, the fix is to run gem uninstall bundler and then use:

gem install bundler -v 1.17.1

Delete the Gemfile.lock, and re-run:

bundle install

You should now have this in the Gemfile.lock:

BUNDLED WITH
   1.17.2

Push to GitHub and the build should work.

Who knew?

It is an awesome platform - with free hosting. Wordpress bye bye…

When I started this twitter replacement, it was just a way to capture things I was finding whilst working. SQL stuff, Azure stuff, and now static HTML.

GitHub is my source control repository, push my commits causing Netlify to kick into action and boom, my website is updated. From Push to Build in one commit.

Isn’t technology amazing.

My evolution:

• Overcast (subscriber)
• Castro (subscriber)
• Pocket Casts (paid for online and iOS)
• Overcast why did I bother with the other ones

What do you think is the current best practice for querying a graph database in Cosmos DB?

If you said Gremlin.NET, you’d be right!

Found #bug with executing USQL in a Visual Studio Solution. If you have multiple projects, you need to set the project with the script you want to run as the Startup project, otherwise VS runs the last USQL script you opened.

VS 2017 V15.5.6.

This will be the place for all my SQL and Azure tips. Problems, and hopefully solutions, I find.

If you want to discuss anything just email me.

You can also find me on GitHub “philstollery”).