Ludum Dare 45 - My First Game Jam

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To say that I romanticize game development would probably be an understatement.  There is a certain allure to creating a world that other can live in and explore.  Where the realities of life seem to fade away for a short period of time.  Perhaps this is what has always drawn me to Dungeons and Dragons.  I first heard about Ludum Dare 3 years ago when I first started entertaining the idea of making my own video game....

Azure Key Vault Authentication

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When I first started developing this blog, I was experimenting with Azure B2C for authentication.  I was able to get it to work, but it was overly complicated for what I actually needed.  As I was the only person that was going to be writing posts and logging in I didnt need all the overhead that comes with the B2C authentication.  Additionally I didnt want a database solution since I am using Azure Table Storage for this blog....

Azure Blob Storage and jsTree

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I recently had a need to provide an interface for some users to our Azure Blob Storage.  Rather than download the Microsoft Storage Explorer and give the users access to the storage account I decided I would make a web based storage explorer.  The two main needs were:  The users needed to be able to navigate around the blob containers the users needed to be able to download archived files....