How to authenticate with Fortify Security with PowerShell

Fortify, a security scanning tool for code, has some great features but also some limiting features. Therefore I sought to use their open REST API to expand on its functionality to enhance how we are using it within the DevOps pipeline. This was of course step one to find how to authenticate with Fortify toContinueContinue reading “How to authenticate with Fortify Security with PowerShell”

How to setup AppDynamics for multiple .Net Core 2.0 applications

We have decided to go with App Dynamics to do monitoring on our infrastructure and code, which is great and even better they have released support for .Net Core 2.0. However when working with their product and consultant we found an issue with monitoring multiple .Net Core instances on one server, plus with console apps, but we found a way.

Resharper DotCover Analyse for Visual Studio Team Services

Do you use Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) for Builds and/or Releases? Do you use Resharper DotCover? Do you want to use them together? Then boy do I have an extension for you!

That might be a corny introduction, but it is exactly what I have here.

What is in a projects builds and releases

While working with other companies I have seen multiple builds and releases, plus also reading books like ‘Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation’. Through this I have learnt more and more about what should really be in the builds and releases of code applications. I would like to describe how I think they should both be used to create a scalable, reliable and repeatable process to bring confidence to your projects.

How to build Azure Service Bus Relay Sender and Listener?

This is one of them, I tried to do and found it hard so here is how I did it, post. I was assigned to look into how to build a Sender and Listener using the Azure Service Bus Relay, so we could send data from Azure to On Premise securely. Now there might be debates on is this is secure and compared to other methods, but that is not for what I was asked and what this post is about.

Galen Framework Hover in JavaScript

A bit of a small audience for this one, but a project I was put on wanted to us the Galen Framework to test their UI. For people who do not know what this framework is, it is a method of writing acceptance code that matches up to the output in the browser window. This can be coded to work for all different device, sizes and URLs. One hard space I came to was to action the hover state of an element and then test it.