Archive

2026  5

April  3

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

April 11, 2026 · 6 min · 1239 words · Paul McIlreavy

Getting Started with Azure Event Grid Simulator

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

Azure Log Retention Gotchas

April 1, 2026 · 11 min · 2168 words · Paul McIlreavy

March  1

The Chainsaw and the Axe

March 27, 2026 · 13 min · 2640 words · Paul McIlreavy

January  1

Part III: SQL Server Integration Testing with Testcontainers

January 7, 2026 · 16 min · 3351 words · Paul McIlreavy

2025  3

December  1

Architecture Decision Records That People Actually Write and Read

December 23, 2025 · 10 min · 1948 words · Paul McIlreavy

January  2

Software Development: Engineering or Science?

January 28, 2025 · 8 min · 1595 words · Paul McIlreavy

Allen Holub @ YOW! Brisbane 2024

January 23, 2025 · 5 min · 1008 words · Paul McIlreavy

2024  9

October  1

Deploying AnythingLLM as an Azure Container Instance

October 2, 2024 · 10 min · 1972 words · Paul McIlreavy

September  3

Enabling HTTPS on Azure Container Instances with Caddy

September 23, 2024 · 6 min · 1112 words · Paul McIlreavy

Azure Backup Services: A Helpful Analogy

September 16, 2024 · 6 min · 1200 words · Paul McIlreavy

Azure Private Networking: A Helpful Analogy

September 11, 2024 · 8 min · 1555 words · Paul McIlreavy

June  1

Columbo & the Ideal Team Player 🕵️

June 4, 2024 · 6 min · 1233 words · Paul McIlreavy

May  1

SonarQube with Docker Compose

May 15, 2024 · 12 min · 2465 words · Paul McIlreavy

April  3

Easier Code Debugging with SQL Server Backups

April 21, 2024 · 3 min · 516 words · Paul McIlreavy

Part II: Initialising SQL Server with Docker Compose

April 6, 2024 · 10 min · 1926 words · Paul McIlreavy

Part I: Microsoft SQL Server with Docker Compose

April 5, 2024 · 11 min · 2221 words · Paul McIlreavy

2021  1

January  1

SQL Server High Dpi Settings

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

2019  2

December  1

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

December 5, 2019 · 5 min · 975 words · Paul McIlreavy

February  1

Creating an Azure Event Grid Simulator

February 2, 2019 · 8 min · 1520 words · Paul McIlreavy

2018  4

December  1

Locally Debugging an Event Grid Triggered Azure Function with Postman

December 18, 2018 · 4 min · 702 words · Paul McIlreavy

September  1

Readify Consultant Toolbelt

September 12, 2018 · 7 min · 1421 words · Paul McIlreavy

August  1

The CallerArgumentExpression Attribute in C# 8.0

August 6, 2018 · 7 min · 1340 words · Paul McIlreavy

March  1

Using an Azure function to get Octopus deployment notifications in Slack

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