Partial, half-baked, or otherwise incomplete work is inevitable in the lifespan of a developer. Fortunately, git offers a few ways out-of-the-box to manage temporary work you’re not quite ready to commit. First, a few definitions: Stash – a unit of temporarily uncommitted/staged changes Pop – apply a stash and delete the stash Apply – apply… Read more Git stash, pop, and apply in Visual Studio
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Cloning Git Repositories in Visual Studio Team Explorer
There are endless code repositories out there, and you can access them with a simple URL. For example, a repo hosted on Github might look like: https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell.git Note the .git extension at the end. That URL is the location of a repository i.e. a bunch of code and history of commits/developers that have worked on… Read more Cloning Git Repositories in Visual Studio Team Explorer
Git branch on the command line
At some point, you’ll probably want to switch context within a project and work on something else. Git branches are a possible strategy. What happens when you have to fix a bug after you’ve branched, and you don’t want to step on your feature? In this article, we will discuss commands to: Create a branch… Read more Git branch on the command line
How to git on the command line
In this article, we’ll run through some simple scenarios that may apply to your work at some point. We will: Initialize (create) a new repository, Add a file, Commit our work This is, by no means, a comprehensive guide to git’ing on the command line. I’d encourage you to read the git documentation for a… Read more How to git on the command line
Using posh-git in PowerShell
Ever forgot the state of your git repo at the command line? Posh-git helps you remember!
Build Web Applications with Databases on .NET Core
So you want to build a web application? Cool, I’ll try to illustrate one way to do this using .NET Core step by step to build an application with a database, and even setup some CRUD management in an automated way. Let’s get some assumptions out of the way first. Assumptions .NET Core 2.1 SDK… Read more Build Web Applications with Databases on .NET Core
Using Azure DevOps to automagically release .NET Core apps
“Rub a little devops on it” – Donovan Brown No idea if Donovan coined this phrase, but he says it in a lot of his videos. I also originally misquoted this–apologies! So, Azure DevOps and all its components are pretty badass. From File-new-project to deployed to Azure with continuous integration in minutes. No joke. I started screwing… Read more Using Azure DevOps to automagically release .NET Core apps
Yet Another Post About Things To Know Before Becoming A Developer
Disclaimer: I ripped this from an old blog post of mine and updated (I hope) the relevant bits. Yes, another one of these posts. I’ve read several, and each one has its merits. So, I decided to write my own. If you’re interested in software development in some capacity, this is probably worth a read.… Read more Yet Another Post About Things To Know Before Becoming A Developer
Building a 2D Platformer (Harambe-themed!) in Unity
Run Harambe, Run is the second mobile game I plan to release to iOS and Android. At the time I started this article, it’s in a closed alpha release. Leave a comment if you want to get in on the early testing if it hasn’t hit App/Play stores by the time I hit publish. It’s… Read more Building a 2D Platformer (Harambe-themed!) in Unity
Building a mobile app (game) in Unity
So, I finally got off my ass and built something in Unity (and also got off my ass and blogged something new!) This is not a comprehensive tutorial on building a mobile app, but rather a high-level conceptual separation of development lifecycle for my first mobile game. I knew C#, I knew games, and I… Read more Building a mobile app (game) in Unity