Should be a quick update today. Been very busy with the day job (my client is very luck to have me).
Attended the first Stoke-On-Tech meetup last week.
Great little Meetup aimed at the good techies of Stoke On Trent. With Stoke being my adopted home (been here over 20 years now) - I'm all for that. So much more practical for me to attend than events in Manchester.
Normal sort of format - network over pizza & a beer and two 40-45 minutes presentations. This first meeting had one Rasberry Pi with Azure IOT Hub and a history of AI. Both great subjects.
Next months meeting is due to look at DevOps and Powershell - both very interesting topics to me - so really looking forward to it.
Slowly setting up the new laptop. Suprising how many programs and setting I have hidden away.
Rather frustratingly, Visual Studio is determined to install 2017 - so getting 2015 installed is a little tricky. Getting the .Net Core tools for 2015 was even harder. But seems to be getting there.
Also took the oppertunity to try a bit of Docker. More on this when I get chance to take a proper look.
Bit slow going with being busy with paid work AND setting up my new laptop.
As part of setting up my laptop, I did find that there has been a change in direction for Azure Functions - a movement away from .funproj project template to a stadard class library structure. A little bit frustrating after I'd setup Continuous Delivery for my Azure Function (which underpins the Blog Re-development).
Anyway, I've blogged about the "depreciated" method in Azure Functions - Project References - Part 1. I'll publish a part 2 once I've converted over to class library.
No ROI article published last week. I managed to get about 80% through an article - but simply ran out of time to complete. So fingers crossed for later this week.