You dont have to be crazy, but it helps
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....
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....
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....