Microsoft published a set of interesting tools at Build 2023 to aid software development. One of the most interesting announcement was a new Windows 11 feature called Dev Drive. Dev Drive is a new form of storage volume available to improve performance on key software development workloads. Dev Drive is built on ReFS filesystem, that is targeted file system optimization over the good old NTFS. This means that to …
I have been using Opera as my main browser from early 2000 and I have seen it’s ups and downs at the browser war. At the early days Opera had its own browser engine, which caused some rendering problems, especially if the page had not been tested properly. In 2013 Opera switched from its own Presto engine into Chromium and is not part of large “Chrome based browser” family. This …
Migrating from Azure DevOps Pipelines to GitHub Actions can be a challenging task, especially if you have a large project with complex build definitions. However, the process can be simplified with the help of the GitHub CLI Migration Extension. In this blog post, we will go through the steps involved in using this extension to migrate from Azure DevOps Pipelines to GitHub Actions.
Before we jump …
GitHub Copilot is a great tool. It increases your coding efficiency and can help you make your code better, but it also has some neat hidden features you might not have known about. In this blog post, I’ll share three practical tips for using Copilot. These tips are intended to provide new ideas and insights that can enhance your daily experience with Copilot.
Copilot is a tool that …
As your codebase grows and more people contribute to it, it becomes increasingly important to maintain quality and prevent bugs from slipping into production. This is where the GitHub Pull Request Gate comes in.
A GitHub Pull Request Gate is a set of automated checks that are run on a pull request before it is merged into the main codebase. These checks can include tests, code quality checks, security scans, …
As the world of software development continues to evolve and speed-up, DevOps has become an essential practice for organizations looking to achieve faster delivery, improved collaboration, and increased efficiency. Organizations needs to address swift market changes and increased customer requirements faster than ever. In this blog post, I will discuss three key topics that I teach to my students about DevOps.
DevOps emphasizes the use of automation to increase …
This is the whole list of features and fixes planned for Azure DevOps during Q1 2023. There are lot of great things like swimlane colors, swimlane rules and support for pause/resume in manual testing. As we can see from the list below, there is quite a massive set of features and fixes. Let me highlight the three most important ones and explain why I believe they are the most significant.…
Scrum retrospective is a meeting held at the end of each sprint in the Scrum, where the development team reflects on their performance and identifies areas of improvement for the next sprint. It provides an opportunity to evaluate the team’s effectiveness, identify obstacles, and make adjustments to improve the overall efficiency and productivity of the team. The goal of the retrospective is to continuously improve the team’s performance and the …
Azdoutil is a CLI tool for Azure DevOps by Pluralsight author and MVP Benjamin Day. With azdoutil you can easily interact with Azure DevOps organization directly from your favorite command line environment. The project is published at GitHub under MIT license.
To install this tool run a simple dotnet tool install azdoutil -g command. Note that you will need to have .NET 7.0 installed, so if you …
ChatGPT has been on everyone’s lips for last two months. I personally think, that it is a great piece of technology, that will definitely has it place in the software ecosystem. To find out how good it really is, I made a test.
I am a DevOps guy by heart and I have read a lot of twitter discussions and blog posts about how the ChatGPT is going to replace …