Setup a .NET Core, VSCode & Docker Ubuntu Development Environment

On this post I will describe the steps I have followed to go from an Ubuntu 16.04 clean installation to a .NET Core and Docker development environment. Initial Setup This step is definitely not mandatory. By default Ubuntu comes with different great applications. As this is intended to be a development environment I prefer to remove some of the non-development related applications. At least the biggest in size. For example: ...

August 25, 2017 · 4 min · Mario Moreno

.NET Continuous Delivery/Deployment

In this post I will describe a process to generate and deploy a .NET 4.5 web application (including database) to a Windows Server. This process can be implemented to configure a Continuous Delivery or Deployment process in a Continuous Integration server. I will describe the process using Atlassian Bamboo as the continuous integration server. Only because is the tool I’m currently using but this process can be implemented in any other continuous integration server with just a few tweaks. ...

August 17, 2017 · 6 min · Mario Moreno

My Tools

I’m writing this post with VS Code in a Linux Ubuntu 16.04 laptop. But as a .NET developer I spent last fifteen years (and continue at work) working on different Windows based desktop/servers and laptop computers. Since 2010 I’ve started to work heavely wit virtual machines and different computers. I ended selecting different old and new tools, looking mainly for portable versions to fit in a little flashdrive. Here is my selection of tools, most of them I use in a daily basis. ...

August 8, 2017 · 3 min · Mario Moreno

The Development Wave

I bought my first laptop in 2008 a HP Pavilion Tx1330la Definitely more prettier than useful, at least for development :) By that time I was working in a company with hard .NET development background with a corporate Team Foundation Server 2008 as a source control and issue tracker. In that context my personal goal was to master .NET development and TFS. I configured a VirtualBox environment with Windows Server 2008 and installed TFS 2008. Then I was able to develop .NET applications with Visual Studio 2008 connected to my local TFS instance. All in my 1GB RAM HP Windows Vista Laptop.. ...

April 23, 2017 · 3 min · Mario Moreno

PostgreSQL Centos 7

Installation friendly for a JIRA or Bamboo installation afterwards. Install sudo yum install postgresql-server postgresql-contrib Init sudo postgresql-setup initdb Password authentication By default, PostgreSQL does not allow password authentication. sudo vi /var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_hba.conf Find the lines that looks like this, near the bottom of the file: pg_hba.conf excerpt (original) host all all 127.0.0.1/32 ident host all all ::1/128 ident Then replace “ident” with “md5”, so they look like this: ...

March 20, 2017 · 2 min · Mario Moreno