Author Archives: Chris Pateman - PR Coder

Azure Container with PowerShell

When I was trying to use PowerShell to action some Azure functionality, I found it very scattered and hard to get one answer, so here I give you the golden goose for Adding, Removing, Emptying and Copying files to an Azure Container using PowerShell.

How to use Chutzpah with Visual Studio and Build?

If you want to do some JavaScript Unit testing your most probably going to use things like Jasmine, Qunit or Mocha, which are all great things, but how do you run them? This was a challenge I came upon with Visual Studio and how to get it running like a normal NUnit test.

How to get the users IP Address in C#.NET?

When you search this on your favourite search engine, (Google) you will get flooded by load of different way to get the end result. This is great in a sense as you know there are thousands of people with different answers, but then that is where the problem is at. There are so many single responses to how you can get the users IP Address in C#.NET, but not one that shows you everything. Therefore I will present to you below different methods to get the users IP and how I have implemented it in a project.

Learn a Framework not a Language

I listened to a podcast that said you should learn a coding framework first not a language. Now this might seem weird and confusing to existing developers as we were brought up with the basic languages and then frameworks have become a trend, but that’s because we are old. New developers are coming into the industry and frameworks are the top dog thing to know and use. You can’t see a job without one these day, so is it better to learn the framework first or should you go back to basics first?