I tried out Umbraco’s new Cloud service. It’s an interesting delivery mechanism, and I can see the potential in it. The starter package is only ~$28 a month (25 Euro), and that gets you everything you need to host your site. You still need to buy a domain name and...

This is my first try with a .NET CMS at home - I have used SDL Tridion extensively, but that’s really not something I’d use at home! Umbraco seems good enough. I got a site running, but haven’t tried adding custom controllers yet. I’m not running this site on Umbraco,...

Installing Jekyll using Chocolatey First, install Chocolatey. Then, install Jekyll. Remember to use bundler to get all bundles. I’ve set it up so it works across a Mac, Windows 10, and Linux. No matter what OS I’m currently on, I can quickly git pull my site, edit with a text...

A tutorial on how to write a console app that stores millions of tweets in Azure. I’ve always wanted to create a console app that logged into twitter, searched for a given set of terms, and stored tweets that matched that search into a database that I could query later....