Azure DevOps Simplify - the community extension to work more efficiently with Azure DevOps from VS Code

Nov 16, 2022

Looking at the Azure DevOps Roadmap with lots of planned improvements across the board (pun intended) for 2023 and even further, it seems clear to me that Microsoft has ramped... [read more]

Manage your self hosted GitHub Runners with Portainer and Traefik on an Azure VM with Docker

Oct 23, 2022

Inspired by this very interesting blog post by Portainer, I want to share something that I have been using for quite some time now as you might not need the... [read more]

Microsoft Dev Box A new Azure service for developer productivity

Sep 1, 2022

With a recent announcement, Microsoft launched a very interesting new Azure service, which has the potential to drastically increase developer productivity: Azure Dev Box. Dev Box allows companies to provide... [read more]

Creating a Docker extension to calculate the size of an image

Aug 14, 2022

Ever since the announcement of Docker extensions three months ago, I was intrigued, and I immediately installed the nice “Disk usage” extension. However, being a developer, I wanted to also... [read more]

Serverless development of an Azure Functions app with a GitHub Codespace

Jul 24, 2022

“Serverless” is probably one of the most used (and abused) buzzwords in the Software industry these days, and my favorite quote on that is: “There are as many servers in... [read more]

Host the Swagger UI for your BC OpenAPI spec in your BC container

Jun 29, 2022

Business Central has become a pretty open ERP system with maybe not a great, but certainly a fair API, that can be used to integrate with 3rd party applications or... [read more]

Running Traefik in a container on a modern Windows Server version

May 28, 2022

Traefik is one of the most popular choices for reverse proxies, especially in containerized environments where it is extremely easy to set up and configure. However, due to a limitation... [read more]

Running Teslalogger with Portainer

Apr 30, 2022

This time, a blog post about “non-business tech”, but of course containerized and with Portainer: Teslalogger is a self-hosted data logger for Tesla cars. The idea of this and similar... [read more]

Test / dev Windows VM setup on Azure

Mar 26, 2022

I have written about remote development in the past (1, 2), but in the last couple of month and years, I have also had more and more occasions where it... [read more]

Get your BC artifact URLs without PowerShell

Feb 19, 2022

In June 2020, a drastic change happened to how we can work with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central in containers: Instead of ready made images, BC started to rely on... [read more]