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Setting Up CI To Setup Your Success

Posted on October 15, 2017

Does your build save you time and effort? Or does everyone emit a collective groan whenever you hear the dreaded "Someone broke the build" ? A great build setup you will love, a bad setup you will hate. How do you get started and where do you want to end... [Read More]

Tags: ci deployments devops craftsmanship popular

Electron App Vs Native Winforms App

Posted on May 2, 2017

Like many other software developers I have a bunch of CI jobs that I need to monitor. If any of these jobs are failing I don't want to update my code and break everything. Recently I've been using an app named Catlight. It works great, it's simple, it looks nice:... [Read More]

Twenty Two Nerdy Things I Learnt This Week

Posted on March 31, 2017

You learn a lot when writing code. [Read More]

Automated Builds With Gitlab And Jenkins

Posted on August 19, 2016

With open source tools Jenkins and Gitlab you can automate your builds, track bugs, do code reviews and work in feature branches for .NET development. Here's how to get it all working. [Read More]

Tags: ci devops gitlab jenkins

I Suck You Suck We All Suck At Coding

Posted on May 3, 2016

Programming is hard, but us programmers never like to admit it. Except for the wonderful Scott Hansleman who wrote this fantastic article. And on a similar note. And a good explanation on why we are all so grumpy. [Read More]

Toehider Gig With Gibson Les Paul

Posted on April 19, 2016

A few weeks back we did a great gig at the Ding Dong lounge. I borrowed my brother's Gibson Les Paul for a couple of songs and it ROCKED. I have to say.. I'm pretty darn proud of my solo in this video! [Read More]

Tags: toehider

Speaking At Ndc Sydney

Posted on April 19, 2016

In a couple of months I'll be speaking at NDC Sydney - my topic is "How to change things at your company" - a lightning talk on how to enact change. This is a non technical talk, which is fantastic, because I don't fancy having to answer technical questions from... [Read More]

Arduino Based Midi Patch Changer Footpedal

Posted on April 19, 2016

A few years ago I bought this wonderful amplifier emulator: This is a great unit for plugging your guitar directly into a PA and emulating the sound of modern guitar amplifiers. There's just one problem... it only has 3 buttons on the front! [Read More]

Tags: arduino nerdy midi

Using Nuget To Manage Shared Code

Posted on March 17, 2016

Within your organisation you probably have shared code that is common across multiple projects? You know, code that does boring stuff like sending an email, error message logging or generating a nice bit of HTML. [Read More]

Tags: nuget c#

Asp.net Two Factor Auth With Google's Authenticator App Part 2

Posted on February 3, 2016

This is part two in a series of posts. For the introduction post on how to do it all with a NuGet package, see asp.net two factor auth with google authenticator app. This article is about how to implement it manually and how it works behind the scenes. A lot... [Read More]

Tags: c# 2FA identity popular

Rocklan's Blog

Rocklan's Blog

Setting Up CI To Setup Your Success

Electron App Vs Native Winforms App

Twenty Two Nerdy Things I Learnt This Week

Automated Builds With Gitlab And Jenkins

I Suck You Suck We All Suck At Coding

Toehider Gig With Gibson Les Paul

Speaking At Ndc Sydney

Arduino Based Midi Patch Changer Footpedal

Using Nuget To Manage Shared Code

Asp.net Two Factor Auth With Google's Authenticator App Part 2

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