What's New

January 12, 2023

Finally completed some upgrades to backend services along with some other minor updates. What is particularly nice is that the Ansible deploy scripts fully automated the process! Nice to to see all that work continue to pay off! Check out the notable changes below:

Upgrade to Postgres 15
Upgrade to Redis 7
Upgrade to Solr 9
Upgrade client libraries and applications
Correct sort issue in Photos app

November 21, 2022

Happy to announce the following updates:

Upgrade to .NET7
Upgrade to Angular 15 for client side apps

November 04, 2022

Added a new section to the site to highlight some of Alyssa's work in Scratch from years ago.

October 28, 2022

Minor change to tryout Cloudflare Turnstile and Feature Mangement capabilities.

Added Cloudflare Turnstile as an alternative to Google Recaptcha to try and reduce bot activity
Used FeatureManagement to allow for easily switching between recaptcha implementations
Improve how cache updates are performed
Update a handful of dependencies

August 28, 2022

Dependency updates and a couple minor UI fixes:

Back-end libraries updated to the latest version
Front-end libraries updated to the latest version, including Bootstrap
Correct a small issue in the Reference / HTTP toolbar
Reposition the privacy policy link to the center as it feels more balanced there

May 13, 2022

We are excited to announce a large update for mikeandwan.us!

Caching was updated to use Redis to cache structured data for faster data access
Ansible is now used for automated site deployment - for all environments

The update to use Ansible simplifies the update process and will allow for more easily deploying to new servers. Additional work in this area will help with future updates and greater automation capabilities, especially compared to the messy shell scripts that were used previously.

Finally, there were also a handful of other minor changes:

Leverage configuration settings rather than explicit code for configuring logging and Kestrel
Restructure configuration files to allow for environment specific overrides
Update to Fedora 36 and Podman 4.1 (and thanks to Ansible, the pod was recreated from scratch)
Dependency updates

January 03, 2022

More dependency updates:

Upgrade to .NET 6
Upgrade client applications and libraries
Remove some stale content (presentations / files)

December 24, 2021

Merry Christmas! Here are the latest exciting updates:

Added role based security to control access to photos and videos
Added privacy policy
Updated client application dependencies

September 10, 2021

Dependency Updates

Upgrade to Bootstrap 5 and ditch jQuery
Upgraded client apps to latest dependencies; primarily ThreeJS and Angular
Upgraded server side libraries and runtime version

March 14, 2021

This release features a number of updates, namely:

Upgrade to .NET 5
Upgrade to PostgreSQL 13
Migrate to Duende Software Identity Server
Upgrade Bootstrap and Angular