Background

I have an Azure Static Website that is built from a GitHub hosted repo using the default Action Workflow automation created by Azure when setting up the static site.

A really nice feature of this configuration is that when a PR is created in GitHub a test static website environment site is built in Azure to …

I wanted to have a look at some GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES) upgrade scenarios so decided to create a quick GHES install on my local test Hyper-V instance. Due to me skimping on resources, and making a typo, creating this instance was much harder than it should have been.

The first issue was I gave it a tiny data …

A recent addition to GitHub Actions is the ability to create a custom job summary. Using a simple echo command in a script you can write to the job summary

1steps:   - name: Adding markdown
2  run: echo '### Hello world! :rocket:' >> $GITHUB\_STEP\_SUMMARY

Now, this got me thinking. I have a well-used …

GitHub's Dependabot is a great tool to help keep your dependencies up to date, and most of the time the PR it generates just merges without a problem. However, sometimes there are issues with other related dependencies.

This was the case with a recent PR to update jest-circus to 28.x. The PR failed with the error …

The new GitHub Issues Beta is a big step forward in project management over what was previously possible with the old 'simple' form of Issues. The Beta adds many great features such as:

• Project Boards/Lists
• Actionable Tasks
• Custom Fields including Iterations
• Automation

However, one thing that is not available out the …

Yesterday GitHub released Codespaces as a commercial offering. A new feature I have been using during its beta phase.

Codespaces provides a means for developers to easily edit GitHub hosted repos in Visual Studio Code on a high-performance VM.

No longer does the new developer on the team have to spend ages getting …

One of my most popular Azure DevOps Extensions is my Release Notes Pipeline task. This allows the creation of release notes using information obtained from the Azure DevOps API and formatted using a Handlebars Template.

Given the popularity of GitHub Actions, I got to wondering whether porting this extension was …

Background

GitHub is a great system for individuals and OSS communities for both public and private project. However, corporate customers commonly want more control over their system than the standard GitHub offering. It is for this reason GitHub offers  GitHub Enterprise.

For most corporates, the essential feature …

I recently posted on my initial experiences with GitHub Actions. I had hoped to deliver a session on this subject a DDD 14 in Reading , I even got so far as to propose a session.

However, life happened and I found I could not make it to the event. So I decided to do the next best thing and recorded a video of the …