Subversion (svn) recursively removing and ignoring folders
How to recursivley and permanently ignore bin and obj folders from a subversion (svn) repository This is primarily focused at those of us on Windows but should work in a *nix world to. A quick recap on...
View ArticleReset TeamCity Admininstrator password
Can’t remember your TeamCity administrator password but have access to the server? Try giving this a go…. Resetting the ‘administrator’ user password in TeamCity 6.5.4 on a Windows machine Logon/Remote...
View ArticleA book review – The Phoenix Project
Title: The Phoenix Project Authors: Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford Published: January 10th 2013 Print Length: 345 pages Genre: Fiction I was first made aware of The Phoenix Project from a post...
View ArticleDevOps as a culture
This is a short series of three also fairly concise articles exploring what is meant by the emerging and ever popular term DevOps. In this first post we look at DevOps as a culture. What is DevOps? A...
View ArticleThe 5 enablers of ‘DevOps as a practice’
What is DevOps? A practice? Yes. This is a short series of three also fairly concise articles exploring what is meant by the emerging and ever popular term “DevOps”. In this second post we look at...
View ArticleDevOps engineers, the marriage counsellors of business
What is DevOps? An engineering competency? Yes. This is a short series of three also fairly concise articles exploring what is meant by the emerging and ever popular term “DevOps”. Previous articles in...
View ArticleIIS, why you squashing my custom error responses?
I’ve been working on an open source project called Femah recently and came across a rather time consuming error when we pushed a demo application up to Azure. The work I was doing was around the Femah...
View ArticleRun the same build PROCESS everywhere
For the purpose of this post, ‘build’ refers to the Commit phase of a common deployment pipeline, e.g. version, compilation (I often work in .NET environments), unit test and package for deployment...
View ArticleSorting the Desired State Configuration (DSC) “Running scripts is disabled on...
Ever come across the following error when executing a Desired State Configuration (DSC) configuration against a target machine? The error we see is one often associated with misconfiguration of...
View ArticleIn the wild: AWS IAM naming conventions
This is the first in what I hope will be a series of posts on using out Amazon Web Service (AWS) in the wild. I’m writing it for anyone who finds themselves in a similar situation to me, i.e....
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