I’ll start by pointing out that I picked the title that was most similar to the search terms I used when trying to find out what was going on with my builds the other day! I couldn’t find any information to explain what I was seeing so here’s what I figured out…
What did you do!?!
Recently some people at work have been worried about possible inconsistencies in ours builds due to the ability for npm to get more up to date package versions depending on what we’ve added to the packages.json file. …
This is an older post published on my blog on Feb 07 2015, I’m moving a few old posts over here.
The Fear
If you’re anything like me, and judging by the brilliant people I work with there must be more of us out there, then every now and then you get the fear. The fear is that feeling you get when complexity starts to creep in. When processes you have to go through start to get hard to repeat, or begin eating more and more time. The gut feeling that there must be a better way.
When it comes to getting…
This is an older post published on my blog on Jan 23 2015, I’m moving a few old posts over here.
What are we doing?
We’re going to use our continuous integration pipeline to build, test and deploy an Azure Cloud Service. The process we work with requires that work isn’t just pushed into production before going through a review process; as such it’s quiet important that the steps to get the application deployed when reviewed is as simple as posible. This is part of a larger system they will move our code production from a single press of the “Approve” button.
I’m going…
This is an older post published on my blog on Jan 20 2015, I’m moving a few posts over here.
What is TSD?
TSD is a package manager to search and install TypeScript definitions files directly from the community driven DefinitelyTyped repository. While developing in typescript I’ve found it a bit distracting to have to keep going off to find the definitions; this has sped me up a lot.
I’ll be going through this as if you’re in Visual Studio as that’s where I was doing it. It’ll translate fine to the terminal though, just ignore any references to the package management console.
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