Author: Shawn Jackson

I’ve spent the last 18 years in the world of Information Technology on both the IT and Development sides of the aisle. I’m currently a Software Engineer for Paylocity. In addition to working at Paylocity, I’m also the Founder of Resgrid, a cloud services company dedicated to providing logistics and management solutions to first responder organizations, volunteer and career fire departments, EMS, ambulance services, search and rescue, public safety, HAZMAT and others.

Azure Web App NPM Install Error

In a previous post I talked about using Gulp, Node and NPM to run automation during source code deployment to Windows Azure Web Apps. I recently encountered a new error standing up the Gulp/Node/NPM workflow on a new Azure Web App. Here’s the bulk of the error: > node postinstall npm ERR! Windows_NT 6.2.9200 npm
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To The Cloud!

I’m increasingly becoming the “Cloud Guy” or more specifically the “Azure Guy” in my development community and workplace. There’s nothing wrong with that, I actually love it. I attended PDC 2008 where Microsoft launched Azure and have been playing and using it ever since. When I have conversations with people and companies asking about cloud
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Social Accountability

Two services that we use at Resgrid a lot, UserVoice and Rollbar, don’t have Cordova Plugins. Every couple of months I would cruise the Internet to see if there were plugins for those services. Every time I turned up empty handed and left the cycle to repeat. After thinking about it again I decided that
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