The League was recently contacted by @samsmithnz who wanted some more real world examples on setting up a CI/CD pipeline into IaaS, IIS and SQL. Damian (@damovisa) asked me if I would be interested in recording a video about this when he swings through Redmond next week. Sure! Piece of cake! I have plenty of … [Read more…]
I don’t even know what a Repository Pattern is! I’ve been super lucky in that writing code has never been hard for me. Learning languages, picking up concepts, all that algorithm nonsense… when it comes to code, things just come pretty easily to me. However, that has made me a lazy programmer which comes back … [Read more…]
It’s official. As of July 3, I will become part of Donovan Brown’s #LeagueOfExtraordinaryCloudDevOpsAdvocates team (or #LOECDOA for short? hmmm… need to work on that one). I’ll be joining Damian Brady, formerly of Octopus Deploy and Steve Murawski, formerly of Chef. Let that sink in for a moment. Donovan Brown. Damian Brady. Steve Murawski. Talk … [Read more…]
Managing database schema changes has always been challenging. Keeping track of what scripts to run in what order and getting database states just right in all the different environments is painful and error prone. However, there are some fantastic tools from Redgate which help us manage our database changes as well as creating a fully … [Read more…]
Have you ever wished you could write mobile apps? Well, if you are a C# developer, you literally are a mobile app developer using Xamarin. With Xamarin, you are able to use C# to write native applications for iOS, android, windows, mac, tizen etc. However, like any new technology, the hard part is starting out … [Read more…]
I am constantly asked to talk about DevOps and what DevOps means for Microsoft. Although there are many definitions of DevOps floating out in our industry, at Microsoft, DevOps is the merging of people, process and products such that we can continually deliver value to our end users. And clearly, VSTS/TFS and Azure are the … [Read more…]
I am constantly asked to talk about DevOps and what DevOps means for Microsoft. Although there are many definitions of DevOps floating out in our industry, at Microsoft, DevOps is the merging of people, process and products such that we can continually deliver value to our end users. And clearly, VSTS/TFS and Azure are the … [Read more…]
I am constantly asked to talk about DevOps and what DevOps means for Microsoft. Although there are many definitions of DevOps floating out in our industry, at Microsoft, DevOps is the merging of people, process and products such that we can continually deliver value to our end users. And clearly, VSTS/TFS and Azure are the … [Read more…]
I am constantly asked to talk about DevOps and what DevOps means for Microsoft. Although there are many definitions of DevOps floating out in our industry, at Microsoft, DevOps is the merging of people, process and products such that we can continually deliver value to our end users. And clearly, VSTS/TFS and Azure are the … [Read more…]
In the current VSTS extension that I am writing (Surface Owner of File Extension), one of the things I needed to do was given a file path in a git repo, I needed to display who was the last person to perform a code review/pull request on that file. After combing through the VSTS REST … [Read more…]