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2026  5

April  3

Stop Claude Code’s /chrome from opening the wrong browser

11 April 2026 · 6 min · 1238 words · Paul McIlreavy

Getting Started with Azure Event Grid Simulator

4 April 2026 · 8 min · 1625 words · Paul McIlreavy

Azure Log Retention Gotchas

1 April 2026 · 11 min · 2243 words · Paul McIlreavy

March  1

The Chainsaw and the Axe

27 March 2026 · 11 min · 2137 words · Paul McIlreavy

January  1

Part III: SQL Server Integration Testing with Testcontainers

7 January 2026 · 17 min · 3434 words · Paul McIlreavy

2025  3

December  1

Architecture Decision Records That People Actually Write and Read

23 December 2025 · 10 min · 1929 words · Paul McIlreavy

January  2

Software Development: Engineering or Science?

28 January 2025 · 9 min · 1874 words · Paul McIlreavy

Allen Holub @ YOW! Brisbane 2024

23 January 2025 · 5 min · 979 words · Paul McIlreavy

2024  10

October  1

Deploying AnythingLLM as an Azure Container Instance

2 October 2024 · 9 min · 1912 words · Paul McIlreavy

September  3

Enabling HTTPS on Azure Container Instances with Caddy

23 September 2024 · 6 min · 1258 words · Paul McIlreavy

Azure Backup Services: A Helpful Analogy

16 September 2024 · 7 min · 1405 words · Paul McIlreavy

Azure Private Networking: A Helpful Analogy

11 September 2024 · 10 min · 1920 words · Paul McIlreavy

June  1

Columbo & the Ideal Team Player 🕵️

4 June 2024 · 6 min · 1157 words · Paul McIlreavy

May  1

SonarQube with Docker Compose

15 May 2024 · 12 min · 2407 words · Paul McIlreavy

April  4

Photostream

30 April 2024 · 1 min · 27 words · Paul McIlreavy

Easier Code Debugging with SQL Server Backups

21 April 2024 · 3 min · 519 words · Paul McIlreavy

Part II: Initialising SQL Server with Docker Compose

6 April 2024 · 9 min · 1876 words · Paul McIlreavy

Part I: Microsoft SQL Server with Docker Compose

5 April 2024 · 10 min · 2129 words · Paul McIlreavy

2021  1

January  1

SQL Server High Dpi Settings

3 January 2021 · 2 min · 416 words · Paul McIlreavy

2019  2

December  1

Keep your dev loop as short as possible with SQL Server Snapshots

5 December 2019 · 5 min · 968 words · Paul McIlreavy

February  1

Creating an Azure Event Grid Simulator

2 February 2019 · 8 min · 1514 words · Paul McIlreavy

2018  4

December  1

Locally Debugging an Event Grid Triggered Azure Function with Postman

18 December 2018 · 4 min · 701 words · Paul McIlreavy

September  1

Readify Consultant Toolbelt

12 September 2018 · 7 min · 1422 words · Paul McIlreavy

August  1

The CallerArgumentExpression Attribute in C# 8.0

6 August 2018 · 7 min · 1338 words · Paul McIlreavy

March  1

Using an Azure function to get Octopus deployment notifications in Slack

29 March 2018 · 7 min · 1364 words · Paul McIlreavy