My last few posts have been about Cake build and Azure DevOps and in this post I will again talk about those 2. This time I will talk about running Cake in an Azure Pipeline and having it work with Azure Artifacts . What? Azure Artifacts Azure Artifacts can be seen as a private repository for your reusable assets …

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Last week I wrote about two related topics that can be seen as a basis for this post: (1) Cake in the enterprise which is about building your enterprise applications with Cake (at scale) and what you need to do to make it manageable and (2) Migrating your builds to Azure DevOps pipelines which is about migrating …

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A few weeks ago, I wrote how we migrated our build system towards TeamCity (this migration was a few years ago). If you want to know more on how we did this, then I gladly refer you to this post Today, I'm writing about the migration back to Azure DevOps. I'll explain the reasoning behind why we move back and what we …

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For a few years now, I have been willing to write about this and I never really took the time. I spoke about it in a session during Visug XL 2019 and at that time, we were only getting started with Cake. Today, 1.5 years later, we have a set up a stable (unit test supported) build process that supports multiple …

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This weeks post is one with a lot less text! I really dislike having to click around in the UI of an OS/application to get things done and I love it whenever that I can take a shortcut to shave off a few seconds of the time that I would need otherwise! It happens regularly that I see other people working and see them …

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I'm in the process om migrating a whole bunch of builds from TeamCity to Azure DevOps and the entire process is automated. (I'm writing a blogpost on this, stay tuned if you are interested in this). Today, one of the builds that I'm migrating, gave me an error when I did a test. It struck me a bit as "a strange …

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In some organizations, finding a moment to discuss something with the right stakeholders, is such a painful undertaking that you have to plan weeks in advance (only to get cancellations just before "the big moment" arrives). This is a real issue that a lot of people have to deal with on a (very) frequent …

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A few years ago, we migrated all our builds out of practical considerations from (at the time) TFS to JetBrains TeamCity. The main reason for us was that the support for XAML based builds in TFS was about to end... The main advantage for us, when using those XAML templates was the (rather) extensive templating support. …

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I've been wanting to write this post for a while (a few years) now and I never took the time. At some point I just thought that it wasn't relevant anymore, but since I'm working on a project in a similar context and I feel that the need still does exist, I could not refrain myself and write this thing down. If you …

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Today, a colleague contacted me with an issue that he encountered during one of his builds: The problem lies with something legacy that we try not to use anymore wherever possible, but in this case, there seems to be an exception. In Azure DevOps, the default for version control was once (actually not that long …

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Last week I wrote about studying for the "Azure Solutions Architect exams" and in that article I mentioned that I completed the first requirement for this certification, namely the Microsoft exam: Exam AZ-303: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies . Today, just one week later, I'm happy to announce that I …

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Yesterday I did something I haven't done for a few (4-5) years: I completed an "official" exam! (In this case it was a Microsoft exam) What/Why I started studying for the exam in December and because of work (and life) it took a bit longer than expected. (Initially, I was really optimistic and my thought was …

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Important: This is mostly for the Belgians among you A few weeks ago, I was talking to a colleague via Teams and at some point he was interrupted by a phone call. He took the call (I told him that I would wait as it seemed "to do something with him") and I heard him speak to the person that called him. It …

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Every so now and then, you might have to set up meetings with people from somewhere else on our little planet. It is already complex most of the times if you have to do this within a single time zone, but it gets even more complex when you have step outside one time zone. In the beginning, I counted the difference to …

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If you are like me and have always a huge amount of tabs open in your active browser(s), then you might like the introduction of sleepy tabs in Microsoft Edge (the new one based on Chromium)! It was introduced a few weeks ago, but at the time I only managed to take a screenshot of it (the introduction) back then... …

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