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11 Jan

2023

Rebooting the Azure for Executives Podcast with Landing Zones

By: David Starr Category:General Post

My co-host Paul Maher and I took a break from the Azure for Executives podcast for a while and are happy to report that we are back in the game for 2023! Not only are we releasing new episodes, but we are refocusing the show a bit on broader topics of Azure and cloud computing. […]

1 Dec

2022

Refactoring Bloated Controllers with [FromService]

By: David Starr Category:General Post3 Comments

In my previous article, Refactoring Bloated Controllers with IServiceProvider, I explored using the Service Locator Pattern to reduce the number of services injected into an ASP.NET MVC controller constructor. While a convenient way to reduce the number of constructor arguments, using IServiceProvider does have some potential downsides. It has been a few years since I […]

26 Nov

2022

Refactoring Bloated Controllers with IServiceProvider

By: David Starr Category:General Post7 Comments

I have come into an ASP.NET MVC project that has a HomeController that takes at least 10 service arguments in its constructor. My first line of attack is to factor out the Action methods into separate controllers that only need a subset of the injected services to work properly. So, first and foremost I recognize […]

29 Dec

2021

Life’s a Party: Analyzing Party Compositions for Combat – Encounters in Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition through Monte Carlo Methods

By: David Starr Category:General Post

My son, Mason Starr, is a grad student at Georgia Tech in astrophysics or something similar that I can’t understand. In any case, he recently co-wrote a final paper for his graduate-level stats class with Michael Hauge. There’s a lot of math, but keep going. There are histograms with the word “Barbarian” in them for […]

8 Aug

2021

Getting Azure API Access Token Via OAuth or MSAL

By: David Starr Category:Azure, MicrosoftTag: azure, msal, oauth:

article, we’ll look at how to do that using two different approaches. We’ll also see how to call those Azure APIs once you have your bearer token.

28 May

2021

An agile team is one that…

By: David Starr Category:AgileTag: Agile, devops:

I recently asked an open-ended question on LinkedIn. I asked people to complete the following sentence. An agile team is one that… The request got a lot of suggestions, and there are some I think particularly worth exploring. This post looks at my two favorite answers. Self-correcting Firstly, “An agile team is one that self-corrects,” […]

5 Apr

2021

Testing Azure ARM templates is easier with ARM-TTK

By: David Starr Category:General Post

Editing Azure ARM templates can be a bit monotonous and especially so when you are deploying the template after each change just to see if your changes worked. ARM-TTK (ARM Test Toolkit) is a tool designed to help make that process a bit easier. Written in PowerShell, the scripts run a set of tests against […]