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How to fix briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance error in WordPress
Occasionally, on updating a plugin you might see the ‘Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance’ message in WordPress. This will be visible even if logged in as Admin. As part of the update process a “.maintenance” file is temporary created in the root folder of…
OData – Create Entity with Child Entities Response with Expand.
The Issue When creating an entity (with child entities) using POST with OData the response will only show the main Entity created. Child entities are ignored. The Solution Use Expand on POST. What?! Seems a bit strange I’m sure but decorating your POST action…
Azure API Management – Caching
Overview Carried out a discovery phase recently to look at Azure API Management and the key features gained by layering Azure’s API Manager (APIM) as a proxy/facade layer between your backend APIs. One of the elements of APIM that rather appealed to me was…
Azure .Net Core App Service fails to start 503 error
Was playing with a POC app recently. I pushed out a web deploy to an Azure App Service. Everything built and deployed without issue. The app fired up and nothing just the vanilla error message returned. I checked the site logs via Kudu and…
Office Open XML Powerpoint Table Row Woes
Experienced an interesting “feature” in Powerpoint XML development/integration recently. Basically, it appears there is no way to define a default font size/style on a table row. It’s possible to specify the default font size via the slide master but if a user forgets to…