My disk was full the other day, so I needed to clean up. First the obvious stuff, like the Downloads-folder, the Nuget-cache, the bin- & obj-folders and the Temp-directory. Second, I used WinDirStat to figure out where the other biggest culprits of data-usage are to be found.
One of the directories was the main project I’m working on, with a staggering 24GB in disk size! Obviously, we’ve created a lot of code in the past years, but not THAT much.
Read more →A request came by me to:
Get all the commits associated to a specific release, based on the previous succesful release.
The fun thing is, we’re using Azure DevOps.
Easy right?
Well, that’s what I thought, because this information is readily available in the web interface of Azure DevOps.
As the saying goes:
We do things not because it is easy, but because we thought it would be easy!
This phrase applies to the above request.
Read more →It so happens a lot of people are mixing their work- and personal development machines, especially when doing side projects in their spare time which are somewhat work-related.
At least, this is the case for me as I’m using GitHub both for work & personal stuff nowadays.
On my personal machine, I’ve set up Git to work with my personal e-mail address & SSH keys.
On my work machine, I’ve set it up to run with my work account.
Read more →With the new Windows Terminal available I’ve been searching on how to upgrade my console experience. I see a lot of people improving their terminal to show important information, like which Git branch you are working on, which Azure subscription, the actual location on disk, etc.
A couple of months ago I came across Brad Wilson his post on the matter and I like the way his terminal looks. His post, is rather straightforward, but there was some information missing.
Read more →The past couple of days I’ve had the pleasure to start using a Git server as the new version control system at my customer. I’ve already had the pleasure to use GitHub and BitBucket in the past, which works like a charm with tools like GitHub for Windows and SourceTree. Because I’m used to using these tools, I really wanted to use them on my day job also.
Because we chose to use SSH keys as a validation mechanism I had to create one.
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