I have just release a new Azure DevOps Pipelines extension to update a page in a Git based WIKI. 

It has been tested again

• Azure DevOps WIKI – running as the build agent (so the same Team Project)
• Azure DevOps WIKI – using provided credentials (so any Team Project)
• GitHub – using provided credentials

It takes a …

I am super happy to announce that DDD North is set to appear on February the 9th in the Sunny Northern City of Hull

The Amazing people at Hull University have arranged the venue and we will be shortly announcing call for sessions and dates for ticket availability.

We had hoped to have DDD this side of Christmas but …

Whilst listening to a recent  Radio TFS it was mentioned that TFS Aggregator uses the C# SOAP based Azure DevOps APIs; hence needed a major re-write as these APIs are being deprecated.

Did you know that there was a REST API alternative to TFS Aggregator?

My Azure DevOps Services & Server Alerts DSL is out there, …

There is a general move in Azure DevOps Pipelines to using YAML, as opposed to the designer, to define your pipelines. This is particularly enforced when using them via the new GitHub Marketplace Azure Pipelines method where YAML appears to be the only option.

This has shown up a hole in my Pipeline Tasks documentation …

Azure DevOps has had some serious issue over the past couple of weeks with availability here in Europe.

A really good open and detailed root cause analysis has just been posted by the Azure DevOps team at Microsoft. It also covers the mitigations they are putting place to make sure this same issues do not occur again. …

When I started creating OSS extensions for Azure DevOps Pipelines (starting on TFSPreview, then VSO, then VSTS and now named Azure DevOps) I made the mistake of putting all my extensions in a single GitHub repo. I thought this would make life easier, I was wrong, it should have been a repo per extension.

I have …

Registration for the new season of Black Marble events have just been opened. If you can make it to Yorkshire why not come to an event (or two)

• Azure DevOps: So VSTS has Changed - 24 Oct 2018
• Next Generation Business Productivity with Office 365 and Teams - 25 Oct 2018
• Moving your Development Process to the Cloud with …

Microsoft Azure Stack is a truly unique beast in terms of the capabilities it can bring to an organisation, and the efficiencies it can bring to a project that spans Public Cloud and on-premises infrastructure through it’s consistency with public Azure.

We’ve been using Stack in anger for a customer project for a year …

Whilst I was off work last week TFS 2018 Update 3 was released. As stated in the 2018.3 release notes this is the final bug fix update release of TFS 2018.

The next major release of TFS will not be named TFS 2019 as you might have expected, but will use the new name of Azure DevOps Server. You can see the features …