Iris Chubb on June 5th, 2025.
Jenkins Experts are vital to an organization, but when the expert is the only one who can properly work Jenkins it creates a bottleneck for the team.
Crista Perlton on May 29th, 2025.
Windows PowerShell remoting lets you run any PowerShell command remotely on other machines. Learn how to avoid the disasters that come with PS Remoting.
Crista Perlton on May 22nd, 2025.
“Vibe coding”, or developers using AI assistants to quickly churn out code via prompts is the new thing. While generally helpful, there is a risk that these tools can suggest packages that don’t actually exist or have been “slopsquatted” (named to mimic legit ones). This supply chain security risk could welcome vulnerabilities or malware...
Iris Chubb on May 15th, 2025.
Storing build artifacts in Jenkins is not ideal, as they can be lost/deleted easily. Use a different repository, like Maven or ProGet, to do the storage.
Alex Papadimoulis on May 6th, 2025.
Moq, FluentAssertions, MassTransit, AutoMapper, MediatR – if those NuGet package names sound familiar, it might be from all the recent controversy. The authors of these free, open-source .NET libraries announced they would be going commercial, and that lead to a predictable backlash from users. So much so, that we had to write an...
Crista Perlton on May 6th, 2025.
Your team leans on internal npm packages, the trusted tools you use every day. But a developer, tricked by “typosquatting” or dependency confusion, grabs a malicious lookalike from the public registry, thinking it’s legit. Next thing you know, systems are compromised, and sensitive data’s leaking, all because of confusing...
Crista Perlton on April 29th, 2025.
Are you getting everything you can out of your PowerShell scripts? Here are 2 ways you can instantly level up your PowerShell usage with Otter for free.
Crista Perlton on April 22nd, 2025.
Running parameterized PowerShell scripts with Otter is easy (especially compared to tools like Jenkins).
Alex Papadimoulis on April 19th, 2025.
For the past several months, we’ve been hard at work integrating a new database backend that will make ProGet even easier to maintain. We’ve finally reached a technical milestone that I’m proud to share. ProGet 2024.33 includes a ProGet 2025 Preview Feature that allows you to try out the new PostgreSQL database backend....
Iris Chubb on April 17th, 2025.
Lessons learned from Jenkins are often learned too late. A lesson you don’t want to learn too late is that: Jenkins doesn’t scale.