Using Docker Containers for easy local WordPress development🐳
Creating WordPress development environment using Docker containers.
Identifying Nuget package references which are using relative paths across whole solution
Keeping up with a recent binge upgrading projects, including upgrading all my projects in a solution to 4.8, I have been upgrading nuget packages. Whilst this is a relatively simple task, what irks me is that when you add or upgrade a nuget package in Visual Studio, it will often change the package path to …
Pragmatically upgrading .net framework version for all projects with PowerShell
We had a situation where we needed to upgrade all the CSPROJ files in a solution to 4.8. The issue is that some of our solutions contain almost a hundred projects so a manual intervention would be prone to error. (plus we have multiple solutions to apply this against!) Whilst there are a number of …
Ensuring “dotnet test” TRX & Coverage files end up in SonarQube
I have written before about using SonarQube to do static analysis, but one issue I never came back to was ensuring that code coverage files generated via a build pipeline end up being picked up by the Sonar Scanner to assess code coverage. Note that the following I am actually using the ‘dotnet test’ build …
Include both Nuget Package References and project reference DLL using “dotnet pack” 📦
Recently I have been trying to generate more Nuget packages for our dotnet core projects, utilizing the dotnet pack command. One issue I have been encountering is that the command was either referencing the required nuget packages, or the project reference DLLs, never both. The current problem. If you have Project A which has a …
Setting up a self-hosted build agent for Azure DevOps
Azure DevOps has brilliant build pipeline options and as easy as it is to get set up with their hosted build agents, it can get quite costly rather quick. In this post I cover off setting up a self-hosted build agent for use with Azure. This post won’t cover setting up the build box, but …
👆Level up👆 your retrospectives! (and why you should run one!).
You can also view this post on: https://dev.to/wabbbit Regardless of which Agile methodology you use to deliver your software – You are using one, right?, retrospective is one of the most important meetings you can have. Sadly, it’s one of those meetings that can turn into an unstructured nightmare, and if you aren’t getting anything …
Using time tracking software to your advantage.
Ugh, Time tracking! People often convulse when hearing “Time tracking” in a work context. Although some companies use this to ensure their pesky workers aren’t having any downtime and are constantly little cash cows, I believe it can be used for good and more importantly boost your own productivity. Why not use time tracking software …
Remote NLOG logging with Azure Functions (Part two) – Persisting data into Azure Cosmos DB.
Last time, I got a very basic C# Azure Function hooked up to accept a request from an NLOG web service target. This time, I will be attempting to persist(insert) the incoming log information into an Azure Cosmos database container, direct from my Azure Function in VS Code. Disclaimer: This blog is more of a …
Remote NLOG logging with Azure Functions (Part one).
Part of a journey I was on today to learn about Azure Functions and Cosmos DB. The final code for the Azure Functions element can be found on https://github.com/Wabbbit/AzLog Part one: Setup, Creating my first function, forwarding NLOG events and deploying to Azure within VS Code. Part two: persisting the incoming data using Cosmos DB. …