Today is a sad day! In December 2024 Polly stated to show symptoms of the Constrictive myelopathy coming back. In January 2025 we took her back to the wonderful team at Lumbry Park. Sadly it was discovered that scar tissue had been forming around the original surgery site was now pressing on her spinal cord,… Continue reading

It’s the new year! This year, I’m turning 46! I’m not worried about getting older. Overall, I’m very comfortable with that, but after 46 trips around the sun, I’ve been spending a lot of time reflecting on who I am and what I stand for. Why the naval gazing? Well, partly it’s because as I… Continue reading

An amazing guy, Howard Gunstock, who I worked with a Three started a business called Carbon Kapture around four years ago. He was driven to do something about the upcoming climate catastrophe and worked hard to build an eco-brand focusing on carbon capture. Yesterday, he launched and awesome ‘sponsor a rope scheme’. For just £20… Continue reading

Following up on my posts on: Here is another simple script for adding users to an Azure Active Directory (AAD) Group. I’m passing the user object received from the GetUserByEmail method, previously shared and the AAD Group ID defined in an environment variable. Return codes 204 – The Users has been successfully added to the… Continue reading

Following on from yesterday’s post on Finding a user by email, here’s a method for removing a user from an AAD group using MS Graph API. I’m passing in the full user object received from the GetUserByEmail method. We use the User’s Id property in the /groups/ endpoint to remove the user from the Group… Continue reading

A simple method for finding a user by email via Graph API In this code fragment, we hit the user API with a filter for the user’s email address. The endpoint always returns an object regardless, so we need to check for the length of the Value array. If this is empty we return a… Continue reading

I finally got my shit together and migrated my notes from Apple Notes to Obsidian, it turned out to be less painful than I was expecting, BUT it’s a FAF. For over a decade, I’ve chosen to write all my documents using a Markdown editor of some variety: IAWriter, Bear and now Obsidian because I… Continue reading

31/1/2023 I’ve been super busy these past few weeks, and sadly, my writing has taken a back seat, but I wanted to end the month with a recap of what we achieved. On 3/1/2023, I wrote in 50: Back to work tomorrow that we wanted to achieve the following things: So, how did we do? Successes Partial… Continue reading

25/01/2023 I’ve mentioned a couple of times that I’ve been playing with ChatGTP to assist with a piece of development work I’m doing. Today, I validated a new piece of code it presented me with, which looked great and was exactly what I wanted but completely wrong. I asked it How do I move a… Continue reading

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