Get latest MSBuild on x64 with Powershell 14 August 2017 Daniel-Fisher-(lennybacon) ALM, PowerShell, Build Today I wrote this very very easy script to determine the latest MsBuild file path on a x64 machine:
Determine if the current TFS build is triggered by a Git Pull Request 03 August 2017 Daniel-Fisher-(lennybacon) ALM, Build, Git Today I saw a nuget package that was build during a build that was validating a pull request being published to the package source in a team foundation on premise instance.So I used the TFS Build Variable Definition in combination with MsBuild Property Functions to figure it out.Here is the code:
Interesting read: Keyboard vs. Mouse 20 June 2017 Daniel-Fisher-(lennybacon) Productivity Do yourself a favor and open in “reader mode”: https://danluu.com/keyboard-v-mouse/Plus an addition for the German readers: http://www1.wdr.de/stichtag/stichtag4798.html
Make a WebApplication project automatically publish on build 04 May 2017 Daniel-Fisher-(lennybacon) Build, ASP.NET, ALM If you want to publish a Web Application project you can call MsBuild with parameters. Having a publish happen on each and every build - there is work to do. Visual Studio project files are MsBuild files since Version 2005. There is a way to force MsBuild and Visual Studio behave as requested. The p... [More]
One time zone to rule them all 04 May 2017 Daniel-Fisher-(lennybacon) I just read an article published by YellerApp called "The Worst Server Setup Mistake You Can Make". I’m running my boxes in UTC and wrote about issues in the past (here and there).
Debugging Arquillian Tests in IntelliJ 04 May 2017 Daniel-Fisher-(lennybacon) Java, IntelliJ Clone the tutorial repository from: https://github.com/arquillian/arquillian-examples In IntelliJ click “File | Open” and select the sub director named “arquillian-tutorial”. After the dependencies are resolve the project structure is shown. Now I can set a breakpoint in a test, right click the tes... [More]
Install Microsoft SQL Server 2016 unattended 08 April 2017 Daniel-Fisher-(lennybacon) Database, MsSQL, Productivity, PowerShell, Tools, Windows Automate all the things… Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Management Studio HTH,Daniel
Moving to BlogEngine.NET and Windows Azure 27 February 2017 Daniel-Fisher-(lennybacon) If you see this post it means that BlogEngine.NET is running and the hard part of creating your own [More]
JavaScript, Date and ISO 8601 part3 27 December 2016 Daniel-Fisher-(lennybacon) JavaScript, Project As there seems some confusion and issues with JavaScript dates (here and here) I wanted to have a look at google Chrome and its ES6 capabilities. So I opened the javascript-harmony setting, enabled it and restarted chrome. I opened up the developer tools and hacked some ES6: Running it on Chrome 55.... [More]
JavaScript, Date and ISO 8601 part2 21 December 2016 Daniel-Fisher-(lennybacon) JavaScript, Windows, Project I had a JavaScript date issue some time ago. Today I looked at the sources of ChakraCore and dug to the point of interest. // Compute the time value timeValue = TvFromDate(year, month, day, timePortionMilliseconds - utcOffsetMilliseconds); if (isLocalTime) { ... [More]