Author: ianpaullin
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Intro to Octopus Deploy
I’m kicking off my Octopus Deploy series with my presentation on Octopus Deploy for the Chicago .NET Users Group tonight. It was a great meeting and I think a lot of people got a lot of good information on Octopus Deploy. Programming in the .NET world has made remarkable strides over the past ten years.…
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Presentation on Octopus Deploy at Chicago .NET Users Group
I had the privilege presenting Octopus Deploy at the Chicago .NET Users Group in Downer’s Grove tonight. Avanade sponsored the event and some of my colleagues were able to make it. Overall, I thought it went pretty well. I managed to cover a lot in the demo and slides. Thanks to Keith Franklin and everyone…
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Octopus Deploy Series
I’m currently outlining a series of articles on Octopus Deploy. I’d like to think of it as another user manual but I digress. I may add more topics but for now this is what I intend to publish in the upcoming weeks. Intro to Octopus Deploy (2014-04-07) Installation (Server and Tentacles) Configuration (Server and Tentacles) Configuring Octopus…
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Back on track
It’s been quite a while since my last post. Too much has been going on in my life to divulge at the moment so onward to the more interesting things happening right now. For the past five months, I’ve been fortunate to work along side Jim Szubyrt at Accenture for their TFS Deployment Automation project.…
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CNUG – TFS 2012/13
Tonight I attended the Chicago .NET Users Group (CNUG) out in Downers Grove. The presenter was Jim Szubryt whom I work with at Accenture on a pilot project for automated deployment (or continuous deployment) at Accenture. It was a real interesting discussion about TFS. A lot people had questions on the TFS cloud service from…
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So far behind but still moving forward
Admittedly, I’m extremely behind schedule on publishing anything. My NAS article still requires more work but my spare time these days is shrinking fast. A few positive notes: I passed my Microsoft exam 70-480 (HTML5, CSS3, Javascript/jQuery) so I’m done with one of three exams. I finished building my mini-media NAS which has surpassed my…
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Getting ASP.NET SOAP calls to appear in Fiddler2
I’ve run into this situation several times at work and thought I’d post it so I’d have no excuse as to how to correct the issue. We were having issues with a webservice call; we were able to make the call successfully and we received *most* of the data. There was a specific section of…
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Updated schedule
I’m really far behind on my NAS mini-series articles but there will be several in the upcoming weeks. I’m also working on some personal projects that have taken more of my time than I anticipated so my blog postings have been very inconsistent. I’ll try to correct that within the coming weeks!
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Search through stored procedures in SQL Server for a specific string of characters
While I have experience in designing and programming SQL databases, I don’t often deal with databases or SQL directly at work. Every so often, I find I need a nice query for doing something very specific within the SQL Server environment. Today I needed to find a specific column that was being used in our…