The Awesome WestJet Christmas Story

This was a great 5 minute video showing the great story of Christmas, on WestJet. What a great way to touch so many peoples lives. http://scottcate.looplogic.com/westjet-christmas-miracle … [Continue reading]

Git Source Control: I Stopped using “Origin”

I have source code all over the place. Over the years, I’ve used Microsoft Source Safe Source Gear Vault Subversion Mecurial and Git These days, a Git Repo is where all of my source code lives. Both for personal, and work, both for … [Continue reading]

Silverlight of Yesterday–Saves me today!

Silverlight is an awesome product. As Flash is awesome and it’s glory. Silverlight is nicer for me, as I think in C# v. Action Script. That said, at work, we use the Adobe plug in model for quite a bit, it’s just not something I am personally … [Continue reading]

Installing WordPress on Azure in 3 minutes

I recently moved ScottCate.com from my old hosting provider to Windows Azure Websites. It was so fast and simple, I wanted to do a srceencast showing just how easy it was. If you're interested in blogging, or using WordPress for anything, you owe it … [Continue reading]

Azure CDN: A Valuable Lesson Learned

On October 21st around 6pm Pacific time, our Azure CDN was gone! It came back a few hours later, but I started digging into a solution that would help mitigate this in the future (this post). Instead of the CDN serving content, it was serving 400’s … [Continue reading]