Subversion or SVN is a version control system that has been around for over 15 years and was the industry standard before the arrival of Git. Although Git is far superior to SVN, a lot of places are still tied to SVN for any number of reasons. I was exposed to and worked with only […]
For automation, we want to store as much text as possible in our git repositories, and any binary artifacts in an artifact repository (like Sonatype’s nexus). However, Git can be a dangerous place to ever store passwords. If a bad guy ever acquired access, he could roll back in time and find every password you’ve ever stored […]
I recently was put on a project where we are doing development for a website. There was already a large code, and we went in to add features in order to complete the site, and perform code refactoring when necessary. In order to accomplish this successfully, we decided to follow the SecureAgileTM, which involves ensuring […]
As an academic adventure, a few of us at Coveros decided to come up with a toy software development project we could do to learn more about programming in C# while doing something fun and different. We voted, then two of us ram-rodded our choice down everyone else’s throats and decided on building a game […]
I’ve worked on a variety of continuous integration and continuous delivery projects. We frequently use Jenkins as our platform for driving all build, provisioning, and deployment activities. As part of this, we have a lot of fairly complicated jobs in Jenkins that we are constantly modifying. As a version control pundit, one of my goals […]
