It’s been a while since I last posted, so let me start with a quick update on what I’ve been up to over the months of August and September. First off, August was my first month back as a permanent employee at APEGA. It’s been great working with the awesome team here again, and I’m looki […]
The problem I’ve set out to solve here is the miniscule amount of downtime when deploying my site. To recap on my deployment pipeline, I’m simply deleting the website files on the server (so that I’m starting in a clean state), then copying over the new ones from my repository (after in […]
In my first post on this blog, I talked about how I created the site’s Azure infrastructure (database, storage, VMs, etc.) using the Azure portal point and click interface. I briefly mentioned my future plans to take advantage of Azure’s Bicep templates to generate everything in the cod […]
www.joelj.ca is officially live and published on my LinkedIn. With that done, I’ve run into a bit of pickle: Where previously I could try out experiments on my production site, I’m now less inclined to risk bringing down my personal front page. I had a scare earlier this week while test […]
Last weekend I had the sudden inspiration to re-launch my personal blog. The plan is to use this as a professional landing page, a piece in my portfolio, and as a platform to talk about whatever “fun” stuff I’m up to in my personal life (if it’s not personal tech projects, it’s probably […]