I have been using the 'byPrereleaseNumber' versioning strategy in my Azure DevOps pipelines for a project's libraries and we are now moving a number of the libraries to 1.0Investigating the options available I came accross the 'Counters' feature categorised under 'Expressions' within the Azure DevOp…
I try to keep up with the pace of change on the Azure ecosystem, however missed one change that left me stumped for several hours yesterday.I was deploying a quick and dirty Web App to Azure App Service that required a periodic file drop from an Azure CI/CD pipeline.The plan was to configure the Web…
In this final post in our Zero to Azure Hero series I will cover some tips and tricks such as adding status badges to your GitHub ReadMe page and creating an Azure DevOps dashboard to monitor your Pipelines.To add an Azure Build Pipeline status badge to our GitHub page, from the Azure DevOps portal,…
In the previous post we built out our Web Application using ASP.NET Blazor, we are now going to push this to a new GitHub repository then setup an Azure DevOps CI/CD pipeline to build and deploy direct to Azure App Services. Create a new repository on GitHub for your project, then run the commands t…
SonarCloud is the hosted version of the popular SonarQube code quality tool from SonarSource that provides tooling to analyse code for quality, vulnerabilities and bugs. The main features of SonarCloud are: 16 languages: Java, JS, C#, C/C++, Objective-C, TypeScript, Python, ABAP, PLSQL, T-SQL and mo…
In part 2 of this blog post series we started to build out our Twitter Sentiment Analysis functionality and tests, this blog post will cover pushing our library to GitHub and creating our first CI/CD pipeline using Azure DevOps services. I'm assuming you are familiar with Git and GitHub. If you aren…
In this 9 part blog post series (link to all posts at bottom of this page), I revisit the Sentiment Analysis application I developed for Wholeschool as part of our Pluralsight course on IBM BlueMix now rebranded IBM Cloud (If you have a Pluralsight account be sure to check out the course!) During th…
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