I have to create a lot of temporary files in a project and I was sick of the usual way of doing things. It was too verbose and prone to errors. I created temporary disposable file and directory objects that…
Monthly Archives: August 2012
Data Virtualization with WPF
Ben Stollnitz wrote a great post about how to get data virtualization working in WPF. It’s not baked in (yet) but his libraries and code make it easy. My biggest snag was having the width of my grid view set to…
Backing up Jenkins with PowerShell
We’ve slowly adopted Jenkins for most of our software products. We’re officially up to 20 projects being built and/or deployed by Jenkins. All those jobs represent a lot of work and I’d hate to lose them. Thanks to this stackoverflow…
Backing up Nexus with PowerShell
We use Nexus to manage all of our artifacts and their storage. It needs backed up as well! The two critical pieces that need to be backed up are Nexus’s configuration and the hosted repositories. No need in backing up your…
Backing up Redmine with PowerShell
So you’ve set up Redmine and your team is actually using it, congratulations! But what if that server went down, melted, or caught fire? The good news is that Redmine is just comprised really of two (or three) parts: its…
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