The Problem

Due to recent changes at NIST and the way they host the NVD DB the dependency-check/DependencyCheck tool that underpins the Azure DevOps OWASP Dependency Check is struggling to download the vulnerabilities DB.

This is all discussed in this support thread. The root cause of the problems is a mixture of many …

The Problem

I have posted in the past about caching the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) used by Jeremy Long’s DependencyCheck tool via the associated Azure DevOps task.

Today I had an issue that on one pipeline the Azure DevOps task was reporting the following error

Starting: Dependency Check …

The Problem

I recently came across a problem with a complex BitTalk solution being built in an Azure DevOps Pipeline. It had been working fine, but it started to fail with error related to failing to copy built DLLs from the obj folder to the bin folder because it said the files were in use by MSBuild.

The Analysis

I …

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The Question That Started It All

I went down a surprisingly deep rabbit hole recently trying to answer a deceptively simple question: Do we need one Microsoft Fabric capacity, or separate ones for Dev/Test/Prod?

On paper, this sounds like a sizing …

Whilst at DDD South West I did a very enjoyable panel podcast recording for Dan Clarke’s Unhandled Exception podcast on the subject of the impact of AI on software development.

I am please to say that the recording of the panel has just been published. So why not have a listen to it, or any of Dan’s back …

Thanks to everyone who came to my session ‘Why don’t people seem to be able to diagnose problems these days?` at yesterday’s DDD South West.

I don’t believe there is a recording of this session from any event where I have delivered it, but you can find a copy of my slides, with all my other …