December 27, 2025 at 1:02 am
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December 27, 2025 at 11:49 am
You are enthusiasm for this clearly shows that you chose the right career for yourself!
December 27, 2025 at 4:15 pm
Ha! Yeah, I guess so. Still doing work on it this morning. I'm figuring out if I can get PostGIS installed and then do some additional web pages to show off more PostgreSQL behaviors.
I am such a nerd.
"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood"
- Theodore Roosevelt
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December 28, 2025 at 2:55 pm
Thank you, Grant, for sharing what you're working on. My project during my holiday break, isn't as ambitious as yours, but I'm glad I finished it. I started a Pluralsight course on Microsoft Blazor, early this year. I started it and worked on it for a while, but then I left if for months, because of other priorities. However, I decided to buckle down and get it done, which I did a couple of days ago. So, nowhere near as ambitious as what you're doing, but I at least am proud of having completed it.
I do have a question for you. I have stayed away from doing anything in any cloud, as an individual, because I am afraid of the cost. I've heard people joking saying, "I spent only $50 a month on Azure (or AWS, or GCP)". There is no way I could get even $50/month passed my wife, let alone how much more it would actually cost. I'm wondering if to fund your experiments in Azure if you used your account through Redgate, or if you foot the bill?
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December 30, 2025 at 4:40 pm
Thank you, Grant, for sharing what you're working on. My project during my holiday break, isn't as ambitious as yours, but I'm glad I finished it. I started a Pluralsight course on Microsoft Blazor, early this year. I started it and worked on it for a while, but then I left if for months, because of other priorities. However, I decided to buckle down and get it done, which I did a couple of days ago. So, nowhere near as ambitious as what you're doing, but I at least am proud of having completed it.
I do have a question for you. I have stayed away from doing anything in any cloud, as an individual, because I am afraid of the cost. I've heard people joking saying, "I spent only $50 a month on Azure (or AWS, or GCP)". There is no way I could get even $50/month passed my wife, let alone how much more it would actually cost. I'm wondering if to fund your experiments in Azure if you used your account through Redgate, or if you foot the bill?
Nice work on the course. I ought to look into stuff like that as well.
I have a $150/month account on Azure provided as an MVP. I stick within that. I have accidentally run up bills a couple of times. However, gleefully, it was for work, so I did put the (small, only about $200) bill back on Redgate that one time. Otherwise, yeah, it's hard to experiment without a free tier. They have time boxed free tiers available, just do a search. I'm running a very tiny VM ($9/month) to give me a private connection point. A minimal database cluster ($20/month), and everything else is free. It's something I keep a close eye on because if you run out the $150 provided, you don't get billed more, but everything turns off, which would be a real problem if I was running a demo.
For work stuff, we also have cloud accounts that RG is paying for.
"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood"
- Theodore Roosevelt
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