Starting with a Manual, Multi-Step Process I have blogged about the changes I made to streamline my site architecture and continue to work on ways to improve it. One thing that I did a month ago was replace the static page that was my [speaking page][/speaking] and make it more dynamic. Before whenever I had a new speaking gig, I would go into my repo and edit the HTML, EVERY… TIME….

An Easy Solution for an Easy Task I write about Azure Functions over and over again because they are the perfect solution for what I am trying to do, small little things that I don't want to spin up a larger unnecessary app to do it. That along with the fact they just run and go away, the price point for the things I do make it basically free. I recently remapped my blog to a static website hosted in Azure Blob Storage.

New Version of Azure Media Services I have been a fan of Azure Media Services for a long time. I worked with a customer roll it our to their organization a few years back and immediately saw the opportunity to enable a company with the ability to wholly own their video content and host/play the media inside their organization. Previously, the SDK that interfaced with Azure Media Services, consisted of 2 External Packages

Dot Net Standard Support in Azure Functions! I have talked about Azure Functions before, but up until this point, I felt like it was limited to cases where you needed to interact with a database. One prime example being listening on an Ftp folder and tracking the files in a database. You would do this in the past don't get me wrong, but I wanted to use the newest stuff with the newest stuff, and using an older mechanism to interact with a database with something as cool as Azure Functions bummed me out.

Being Repitive is not fun Ever since I can remember I have loved to automate things. Whether it was taking toys and mounting them on remote control car parts or convincing my brother that the show I wanted to watch at a particular time was far better than anything he wanted to watch. I guess those things aren't really automation rather more like a combination of laziness and and ability to make a little effort so something wasn't as contrived the next time… WAIT, ISN'T THAT AUTOMATION?