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devopsanywhere: Puppet vs. Chef, Fight!

Brent Sordyl — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:54:36 +0000

Chef wins but by only a narrow margin.

The Criteria

Community Strength
Leadership
Corporate Adoption
Technical Merits
Hands-on Experience

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Dependency Management with .NET – Doing it Right

Brent Sordyl — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:52:00 +0000

Keeping dependencies in your source control
GAC and WebGAC
Here comes NuGet
Working with NuGet Remote Feeds
Meet Artifactory

(Full Story: Dependency Management with .NET – Doing it Right)

Visualized Git best practices for team: branch, merge, rebase

Brent Sordyl — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:02:22 +0000

1 – Stop using GUI for git, seriously, it’s not that many commands
2 – Be safe, branch out, commit often, merge often
3 – Git rebase to be used on the current branch
4 – Replace git pull with git pull –rebase

(Full Story: Visualized Git best practices for team: branch, merge, rebase)

The history of version control

Brent Sordyl — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 21:00:07 +0000

1. Source code is text in a file! (1960s)
2. Humans can manually keep track of versions of code! (1960s)
3. You can keep lots of versions in one file! (1972, 1982)
4. You can each have your own copy checked out! (1982)
5. Wow! You can version multiple files at once! (1986)
6. Two people can edit the same file at the same time, and it merges what they both did! (1986)
7. The shared repository can be on a remote machine! (1994)
8. Free open source version control hosting! (1999)
9. You can distribute it all so there’s no central repository! (2005)
10. When you checkout that’s a fork too, and you can do that in public! (2008)

(Full Story: The history of version control)

Why are you still deploying overnight?

Brent Sordyl — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 11:49:22 +0000

Plan For Success; React Quickly to Obstacles

(Full Story: Why are you still deploying overnight? | Brian Crescimanno)

How Ruby is beating Python in the battle for the Soul of System Administration

Brent Sordyl — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 11:48:33 +0000

Here are the features in a scripting language that a sysadmin wants:
A DSL for the problem domain
High productivity, i.e. concise and expressive syntax
Easy to interaction with shell commands
Regular Expressions
powerful one-liners

(Full Story: How Ruby is beating Python in the battle for the Soul of System Administration)

Veracity – The Next Step in DVCS

Brent Sordyl — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 13:55:53 +0000

(Full Story: Veracity – The Next Step in DVCS)

Tower – The most powerful Git client for Mac

Brent Sordyl — Tue, 10 May 2011 21:04:11 +0000

(Full Story: Tower – The most powerful Git client for Mac)