Yesterday, I tried to publish an app to Azure App Service from Visual Studio 2019 (right-click -> publish) (I know, I know… but I just wanted to try this feature out!) I had already set up my Linux App Service Plan (size B1) On clicking publish, and selecting “use existing” I was seeing a rather unhelpful “no resources found” message Of course I’d tried the usual ‘log...
While working on a project that used NSwag, when the solution was built, Visual Studio (and dotnet build from the command line) reported the following error: View the code on Gist. Pretty frustrating, as it wasn’t clear what the error meant. This project used NSwag.MSBuild to generate the client on build. As per their documentation, we had an after build target: View the code on Gist. The problem...
One of my clients is still using the legacy free version of GSuite legacy free edition Prior to December 6, 2012, Google offered a free edition of G Suite—also known as the legacy free edition—that had a reduced set of business features. As of December 6, 2012, Google stopped offering the free edition to new customers. I followed the steps in the Google FAQ to configure a group...
Until recently, Cohoda LTD held a Tide Banking account. Tide is a ‘challenger’ bank, attempting to disrupt the business banking market. There’s a major problem with this bank, however. They don’t transfer funds from your Tide account, they use a holding / intermediary account. Without telling you. We uncovered this problem when we transferred a sizeable sum from Tide, to a Virgin Money bank...
I’m currently doing some work looking at the GeoNames dataset. `allCountries.txt` is around 1.5gb, which is pretty large, and certainly too large to open up in vscode for a quick look. However, I found I could use `head` command, which reads the first n lines of a file, and pipe the output to `code -` (which is the command for opening vs code and reading the output from another program) For...