Uttam Kini's Blog

Devops

  • Build Automation on Windows

    I have heard  people complain that it is hard to automate almost anything on Windows/.Net. It is one of the few things that even I agreed with, until I tried to do it a couple of days ago. To do it you may have to  not do everything that Microsoft tells you to and not Read more

  • Configuration belongs to the environment and not to the application

    Sometime ago I helped a client create an internal .net web application. One of the decisions that we had to make was on having a different web.config file for different environments. On a previous project, I had used xml poke nant tasks to do it. It had worked for us then, so I solved the Read more

  • Jenkins plugins that every team must use

    If you are setting up a continuous integration environment for anything serious and Jenkins is your choice of a continuous integration tool, then there can be a learning curve. By default Jenkins comes bundled with very little features. For anything more, you need to install plugins. Here is a list of plugins, that can make Read more