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A Pain-Free Guide To Installing Web Deploy

Posted on February 18, 2017 in Hacks #iis #web-deploy

I've had several less-than-stellar experiences installing Web Deploy in the past. Next time I go through this, I decided many months ago, I'm taking notes! 'Next time' turned out to be earlier this week. This article is the result of the notes I took during that trial-and-error session. [Read More]

Trouble connecting to a git repo with an SSH key?

Here's how I fixed the problem on a Windows Server 2012 machine

Posted on February 15, 2017 in Hacks #git #ssh

Are you getting an 'Unable to negotiate with legacyhost: no matching key exchange method found. Their offer: diffie-hellman-group1-sha1' error? This article might be for you. [Read More]

Basic Git Workflow Guidelines

Some basic git guidelines for everyday use

Posted on February 6, 2017 in Coding #git

My personal list of basic git hygiene practices that I frequently suggest for most software development teams. [Read More]

Getting Logi Info Studio To Play Nice With Git & CI/CD

A look at some basic limitations with Logi Analytics' IDE

Posted on August 28, 2016 in Coding #git #logi-analytics #ci-cd #team-city

In recent weeks I've become intimately acquainted with Logi Analytics' IDE, called Logi Info Studio. I haven't yet used it enough to have a strong sense of Logi's platform as a whole, but there are definitely two aspects of developing with Info Studio which I've found outmoded: it is neither terribly source control friendly nor very well suited for continuous integration/deployment environments. [Read More]

FluentConsole: Now With Automatic Word-Boundary Line Wrapping

Write long lines of readable text to the console window with ease

Posted on May 26, 2016 in Coding #fluent-console #csharp #console-apps

When writing sentences to a console window, by default, the text will wrap at the exact width of the current window. Unless your sentences happen to consistently have word boundaries at exactly the same intervals as the window width, your text will wrap right in the middle words... [Read More]

Installing SSL Certificates On Webfaction

A Guide For N00bs

Posted on May 19, 2016 in Recommendations #webfaction #web-hosting #ssl

Like so many other things, getting your site running over HTTPS is easy… once you know how. If you’ve never done it before, well, it’s not necessarily a straight shot from A to B. Here I describe exactly how to quickly and easily get the S into HTTPS for a site hosted on Webfaction - my preferred web host. Much of this information probably applies to other web hosts as well - but no promises there. [Read More]

Purge A File (Or Directory) From A Git Repository

...and remove all traces from the entire history of the repo

Posted on April 20, 2016 in Coding #git

Sounded easy enough. Move a git repo from Server A to Server B. How hard could that be? [Read More]

New SqlConnection() Hangs When IIS Express Has Been Idle

And an entire day is lost trying to debug it

Posted on April 11, 2016 in Hacks #iis #sql #visual-studio #bug

About a week ago I was happily working away on an ASP.NET Web API project when I noticed something fishy happening. And by “fishy”, I mean incredibly, unbelievably, stupendously frustrating. When initially loaded, the application worked fine. Start the project, execute a command from Postman, get results. But after running for 8 or 10 minutes, results would suddenly stop coming back. It didn’t take long to figure out where it was failing, however why it was failing was another matter entirely. [Read More]

WordPress, you're FIRED!

I'm taking my things and moving to Hugo.

Posted on April 5, 2016 in Recommendations #wordpress #hugo #favorite-posts #blogging

I like a great many things about WordPress. It’s easy to set up. There is an overwhelming community behind it, chock full of free themes and plugins. There’s a nifty mobile app. It has a built-in commenting system. Really, for the most part, it’s great. That said, there is one thing about WordPress I’ve never particularly enjoyed. And, unfortunately, it’s something that’s rather essential to, you know, a blogging platform... [Read More]

GitHub Desktop Removing Credential Settings When Loaded

(There's a fix for that!)

Posted on March 30, 2016 in Hacks #github #git

Just the other day, git started to continuously prompt me to re-enter my GitHub credentials, despite the fact that I had repeatedly cached my credentials. Why, GitHub, why are you bothering me with this, I pondered. Turns out, GitHub desktop runs a ‘configuration sanitizer’ when it starts up because GitHub has “seen significant issues in the past with other Git clients adding invalid/bad configuration values”. Makes sense. I have, in fact, seen that happen in the past. [Read More]