I just finished reading The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg. It was an absolutely fantastic read. The book delves deep into what makes a habit a habit, how habits are formed and most importantly, what we can do to...
While we are in the process of migrating to TeamCity for our CI server, we're (sadly) still using CruiseControl.NET for some of our older automated continuous integrations. I have a project that I don't want to have build every time CCNET detects a check in. It's not ideal but this...
With our new development methodology running smoothly for the past few months, it was time to start cleaning up the server rack. There were a few old 2008 servers that were hosting some of our low priority servers as VMs in Hyper-V. With our new powerhouse server running flawlessly, I...
I had to deal with a serious client issue the past 24 hours that required me to be able to parse through IIS logs. I had played with Microsoft's LogParser in the past but it had been a while. To quickly import the files into a SQL database, it was...
Weightroom The gym has become a larger and larger focus of mine. I'm loving the powerlifting work that I have focused on over the past 12 months. I did not make as many gains in 2016 as I had hoped mostly due to my lower back injury. I've incorporated mobility...
After testing TeamCity for the past several months, it was obvious that this was a GREAT upgrade from our current CruiseControl.NET build solution. It's been rock solid and, other than some missing DLLS, I have not had to RDP into the server to correct any issues. I was performing some...
We ran into our first real issue with our new TeamCity build server on Friday afternoon. We ported an old project from Vault into GitHub and then migrated the build script from CruiseControl.Net over to TemaCity. This was the 8th project that I had migrated so I did not expect...
Part of migrating our hosting from our current environment over to Azure involved migrating the SSL certificates. To save money, the clients generally do not want to pay for new certificates, they would rather use the existing ones. Our current host exports the SSL certificates as CSR files and provides...