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If you have been using TypeScript you should be aware the definition file repository maintained by Boris Yankov called DefinitelyTyped . This repository is awesome because it saves so much time and effort when working with 3rd party libraries with Typescript. However, as great as this repository...
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Recently I mentioned this.Log . Given the amount of folks that were interested in this.Log, I decided to pull this source out and make a NuGet package (well, several packages). Source The source is now located at https://github.com/ferventcoder/this.log . Please feel free to send pull requests (with...
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One of my favorite creations over the past year has been this.Log(). It works everywhere including static methods and in razor views. Everything about how to create it and set it up is in this gist . How it looks public class SomeClass { public void SomeMethod() { this.Log().Info(() => "Here...
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Today begins the exercise of setting up an Octopus Deploy server with the goal of using this for our deployments. Of course to get started I headed out and started reading the various documentation. When I got the part about creating the nuget packes via OctoPack I quickly ran into the following...
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One of the thoughts I've been considering recently with chocolatey is consistency with packages and naming conventions as chocolatey continues to grow. It's fine to name packages by the app/tool name, that's both intuitive and expected. What I am more interested in is when an application...
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As software creators we don't get to decide what version of our tools / libraries that people use. If we try to force them, our users will go somewhere else. Update: What Type of Software This Applies To This post talks of tools, applications and libraries. Things that end up in the users hands....
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“If only there was some way to quickly and silently install applications and tools on my windows machine.” Chocolatey is kind of like an apt-get, but for Windows. It is a machine level package manager that is built on top of NuGet command line and the NuGet infrastructure. Jason Jarrett recently described...
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Yesterday I started a discussion about adding a new command to nuget.exe . It ended in creating an extension to the command line that behaves in the same way without having to dive into the nuget code base or add more complexity to it. I haven’t seen any blog posts or documentation surrounding...
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Last weekend I went up to Iowa Code Camp in Cedar Rapids and had the opportunity to do two presentations, one on NuGet and one known as the Automation Tools Roundup. ICC is one of my favorite conferences every year. It is twice a year and I try to make it to at least one of them. The people that...