Publishing to an Azure website from Visual Studio 2015

This was trickier than expected. We thought it had to do with permissions, but even with Owner access to the Azure site, it still gave errors (a code 99 with Grunt, having nothing on Google about it). Well, I was trying to get Less installed on Visual Studio, and an article revealed that Grunt wasn't installed; nor was Bower.

The article walked me through installing Grunt and Bower, which help with running jobs and managing client-side packages, respectively. Then I still got this error:

INVOKEPOWERSHELL(0,0): Error : Unrecognized link extension 'contentLibExtension'.

Some more digging revealed a StackOverflow post with the answer. It had to do with an old version of the msdeploy.exe file. And then the publish worked like a charm.

New compilers prepare devs for the next generation of JavaScript

New compilers prepare devs for the next generation of JavaScript

Create fade transition for the Bootstrap Carousel

This required a lot of work and has been documented in this Stackoverflow answer.

Build single sign-on into your Web and mobile apps

Build single sign-on into your Web and mobile apps

Five Things People Do to Hurt Their Careers -- And How to Stop Doing Them

Five Things People Do to Hurt Their Careers -- And How to Stop Doing Them

10 more do's and don'ts for faster SQL queries

10 more do's and don'ts for faster SQL queries

How to reset the admin username and password for a WordPress blog

More work on the WordPress blog (see previous post). I realized that my permissions were read-only. This article helps; the trick is to edit the user on the wp_users table of the database, ensuring that you choose MD5 as the function to run on the password field, otherwise it won't be encrypted. Though the article covers an older version of MySQL, it's still applicable.