An Omega Geek’s Guide to Learning PowerShell
In the last 12 months we’ve been doing quite a lot of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) projects helping teams setup Continuous Delivery processes. One of the tenets of Continuous Delivery is...
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TeamCity PowerShell
Last week I was formally invited to become a member of the JetBrains Development Academy Board – to celebrate, I decided to give something back to the community that has a JetBrains flavour. As I...
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A Step by Step Guide to using GitFlow with TeamCity – Part 1 – Different...
When we setup endjin in 2010, there were five activities we did on day one: set up a business bank account, set up a FreeAgent account, for all our accounting needs signed up for Office 365 (or BPOS as...
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A Step by Step Guide to using GitFlow with TeamCity – Part 2 – GitFlow – a...
In Part 1 – I covered off a brief overview of the branching model differences between TFS and Git. One of the most interesting developments to happen in the Git ecosystem (apart from its growing...
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A Step by Step Guide to using GitFlow with TeamCity – Part 3 – GitFlow Commands
In part 1 of the series I talked about the difference in branching models inherent with the different types of version control system. In part 2 I talked about the problems inherent in the software...
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A Step by Step Guide to using GitFlow with TeamCity – Part 4 – Feature...
In part 1 of the series talked about Different Branching Models. In part 2 covered GitFlow – a Branching Model for a Release Cycle and part 3 covered all the GitFlow Commands. In this final part of...
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A Step by Step Guide to Migrating a TeamCity Instance from One Server to Another
If you’ve been using TeamCity for a number of years, there will come a time where the server it’s running on will reach its end of life and your TeamCity instance will need to be moved to a fresh...
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A Step by Step Guide to Automating TeamCity Backups
Now that you’ve set-up your TeamCity environment, or migrated it from one machine to another, you probably want to make sure that if anything happens to the hardware you’ve installed it on, you can get...
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Using Git for .NET development part 1 – what’s Git?
The first few weeks of my apprenticeship involved a crash course on source control with Git. I’ll be sharing what I learned in a series of blogs, looking at Visual Studio’s Git extension, and the Git...
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Using Git for .NET development part 2 – basic operations and tools
This is part two of a series of blogs which I’m writing as I learn about Git, an open source distributed version control system, and find out how it can be used for .NET development. In part one I...
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Using Git for .NET development part 3 – branching and pushing your changes
This is part three of a set of blogs I’m writing as I learn about Git. In part one, I talked about Git’s distributed architecture, its approach to version management, and its support for frequent...
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Create a custom TeamCity PowerShell MetaRunner to Notify NewRelic that new...
Last month I wrote a guest blog post for JetBrains; a detailed step by step guide for creating a custom TeamCity MetaRunner to notify NewRelic that a new deployment has occurred based on a case study I...
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Diagnostic logging with Azure SDK 2.5
Azure SDK 2.5 was announced on November 12th 2014. Among other changes, the SDK includes Azure Diagnostics Client Library 1.3, which has significant and breaking changes since previous versions (Azure...
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Using Git for .NET development part 5 – staging some changes in a file but...
I sometimes find myself in a situation where I want to include some, but not all changes in a file in a Git commit. For example, a colleague uses Visual Studio 2015, whereas I use 2013, so when I open...
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Azure Web Apps: Package Restore against a private NuGet Feed
Microsoft Azure Web Apps (formerly known as Azure Websites) has a very useful inbuilt continuous integration and deployment engine called Kudu (it’s also open source; under an Apache 2.0 license, and...
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