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My goal is to help you work faster.
I must speak and teach until I hear 10 people say, "That thing you taught me? I used it! And it saved me time!"
(Ahem ... although maybe blogging slower than I'd hoped. Ugh, coders' repetitive stress injury.)
So check out the tutorials. Play with code. Tell me about your triumphs.
Making Azure DevOps Pipelines build a Hello World webapp from Git-tracked source code changes
11 Mar 2023
Now that we know how to code and build a “runtime” for a tiny webserver, thanks to this series’s kickoff article, let’s make someone else’s computer in the cloud do that for us instead.
We’ll put a copy of our source code into Azure DevOps (“ADO”) Repositories (“repos”) and track changes to the source code using the Git version control protocol.
We’ll ask ADO’s Pipelines feature to keep an eye on the “main” branch of our source code’s repository. We’ll instruct it to build a fresh webserver “runtime” out of the latest copy of our source code every time we edit our source code.
See the sample codebase on GitHub.
Continue ReadingProtecting Git branches in Azure DevOps repositories
10 Mar 2023
Before – or instantly after – you first store any given codebase (like a tiny webserver) in Azure DevOps (“ADO”) Repositories (“repos”), I recommend protecting certain branches like “main,” protecting them from being directly edited.
Locally unit-testing source code for a Node.js Hello World webapp
09 Mar 2023
Let’s add some unit tests to the tiny webserver we built and ran this series’s kickoff article.
See the sample codebase on GitHub.
Continue ReadingSource code that builds locally into a Node.js Hello World webapp
08 Mar 2023
Let’s take a look at the smallest Node.js website you can easily run on your local computer.
See the sample codebase on GitHub.
Continue ReadingCI/CD get-to-know-you questions
07 Mar 2023
Here are some questions I recently found myself scheduling a meeting to ask the director of a team of developers who’d like to modernize their CI/CD practices.
Continue ReadingRunning UI tests in GitHub Actions
17 Feb 2023
Think of UI testing frameworks like Selenium and Playwright as pseudo-programming-languages that you use from inside another programming language, like:
- Arithmetic
- Regular expressions
Once you think of them this way, it’s easier to understand why there’s a bit of overhead to get them running without human intervention, like in a GitHub Action.
Continue ReadingAzure Static Web Apps minimum viable build
06 Feb 2023
Below is work I did to figure out “what’s really going on” with Azure Static Web Apps and CI/CD pipelines.
The most surprising things I learned are:
Continue ReadingI'm a DevOp!
02 Feb 2023
Big news: I’ve left behind working with Salesforce and Oracle and have become a DevOp!
Continue ReadingWhat is Salesforce Flow?
02 Dec 2022
Salesforce’s Flow is, more or less, a programming language that lets you do things in Salesforce when you run the programs you wrote in it.
Rather than writing code, you program Flow by building flowcharts in a tool inside of Salesforce called Flow Builder.
Continue ReadingOur sales rep territories
01 Dec 2022
One of my favorite coding projects from work to use as a teaching tool has pertained to the way our sales representatives divide their territories.
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