Long Term Project - Part 2 - Azure Boards Configuration

January 28, 2020 by Nathaniel Avery in DevOps

The work for my Long Term app development and hosting project needs an effective method of tracking the work. I’m a single person, so I want something simple and light weight. Having studied Agile and SCRUM, that’s where I’m leaning. Give me a Kanban board where I can track a backlog, Work in progress, and done items, and I’ll be happy.

Project Repository - Azure DB Lessons

December 11, 2018 by Nathaniel Avery in POC

I’ve created a new GitHub repository to track various Azure DB projects I’m working on in my spare time. Azure DB’s fully managed nature makes it somewhat different than traditional Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) installs. There are some features (like ETL) which are not available to end users which means customers may need to reconsider some architectural decisions. My plan is to work on the basics in addition to more advanced topics related to the architectural changes. Like any side project, I can’t quite commit to timelines, but as long as I keep coming up with questions I’d like to answer, I’ll keep adding. The first project is to build a SQL DB via code. The beauty of doing this in the public via GitHub is that anyone can fork the code, or contribute.

Slack and Github Integration

April 16, 2018 by Nathaniel Avery in Tip

Slack, and the new wave of enterprise chat applications like it, show their value through integration with other tools. One of the most popular integrations is with GitHub. The Github app for Slack documents select GitHub actions in a Slack channel. With the actions logged in a Slack channel teams don't have to jump between tools to look for for status updates. Moreover, teams can search through Slack's logs for history related to commits, issues, pulls, etc. for a project.

The instructions for installing the App are located at https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/232289568-GitHub-for-Slack . I have attempted to walk through those same instructions an log my notes along the way.

CheatSheet - Setup Github on Visual Studio Code

April 03, 2018 by Nathaniel Avery in Install, Tip

I usually access github from within Visual Studio Code. As such, when I start coding a new project, I often need a reminder, or a cheat sheet for how to connect Visual Studio Code to a Git repository. These notes are more for me than for anyone else, but I'm sharing them nonetheless.

Steps:

Create a directory on the local file system.
Create a repo on Github.
Select Clone "Clone or download" on Github, copy the link
In Visual Studio Code, sect File -> Add Folder to Workspace -> Select the newly created directory
Select Terminal Window
In the window, type:

git config --global user.name <github userID>

git clone <URL from github link copied earlier>

That should be all that's required. any newly created file should be available on github after stage/commit/push.