Operating system preparation These notes assume since beginning separation of the Jenkins server and individual build agents so on the server will not be any build utilities except git which is necessary for repository polling. Install Chocolatey (see instructions on web). Install Google Chrome (using Chocolatey is actually much easier than trying to download it from web). choco install -y googlechrome Install git choco install -y git /NoShellIntegration Jenkins Server Setup This is fairly simple:

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Upgrade all packages choco outdated List available upgrades cup all -y List local Packages chocolatey list -localonly Packages choco install -y git --params='/NoShellIntegration' choco install -y poshgit choco install -y gittfs choco install -y far choco install -y atom choco install -y chefdk choco install -y winmerge choco install -y googlechrome choco install -y postman choco install -y 7zip

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I bought Garmin Edge 520 couple weeks ago. There are quite a few reviews on internet so this is not intended to be a general review. This is rather few comments on features I didn’t find described elsewhere. Device configuration I was used from Sigma Rox 9.0 that the configuration is done with convenience in a related software. This served also for the configuration backup. Unfortunately most of the setup for Garmin Edge 520 needs to be done manually on the device itself.

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Introduction Recently I had chance to evaluate usage of Chef for deployment of web service on project I am working on. There are plenty of resources available and this post is meant mostly as a serie of personal notes based on my current experience so I can easily return to it. Setup Client side Chef client can run in two modes: Standalone called chef solo Uses chef-solo command without attempts to access the server Works greatly for development of cookbooks or just for simple setup of the environment.

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Introduction During past few months we introduced and heavily extended usage of Microsoft Unity IoC container in our code base as a part of the effort to make the code more loosely coupled. As a result of those changes we now even more than before also rely on Inversion Of Control or more specifically Dependency Injection. Thus both Microsoft Unity and IoC/DI are now crucial part of our toolbox. In order to bring everybody on our team up-to-speed as well as to have training material for newbies we decided to create a simple training material which should help us.

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