How to Find the Installation Date of Your Operating System on Windows, Linux & macOS
I wanted to know when I last installed the operating system on my computer. Let's see how we can find that out on Windows, Linux and macOS.
2023
How to Create a Video of the iPhone Screen
If you ever run into a problem with an iPhone and need to create a video of your screen, you can do that directly with the methods provided by iOS (back to iOS 13).
Little Git Tricks: Move the Most Recent Commits to a New Branch
Does this situation sound familiar? You start with a simple change and after a few commits you notice that the change is a lot bigger than expected. It will be so big that the code better has its own feature branch. But how do we get our commits from the main branch to a new feature branch?
iOS, WordPress & Really Simple SSL: How to Fix a Broken Jetpack Connection
For the last few months, the iOS WordPress application had more and more problems connecting to my self-hosted blog. Deleting it and reinstalling the app helped only for a short time. As there was no change in the situation with the new Jetpack application, I had to figure out what was wrong.
Azure and Terraform: What to Do if .Net 7 Is Unknown?
After we figured out the problem with the AlwaysOn default setting between Terraform and a Linux environment in Azure, we run into the next Problem:
Error: expected site_config.0.application_stack.0.dotnet_version to be one of [3.1 5.0 6.0], got 7.0
Azure & Terraform: The Tiny but Important Difference Between Windows & Linux
As part of the release build of our user group site, we use Terraform to create a BDD environment from scratch, run the acceptance tests and then destroy the environment to keep the cost down. As we recently switched the BDD environment from Windows to Linux, we run into this error:
Error: creating Linux Web App: (Site Name "***" / Resource Group "***"): web.AppsClient#CreateOrUpdate: Failure sending request: StatusCode=409 -- Original Error: Code="Conflict" Message="There was a conflict. AlwaysOn cannot be set for this site as the plan does not allow it. For more information on pricing and features, please see: https://aka.ms/appservicepricingdetails "
How to Fix a Project With 0 Lines of Code in SonarQube
One of the projects I have got "A" ratings though all metrics in SonarQube. The only problem: it showed a project size with 0 lines of code. How did this happen?
After checking the logs, I noticed a warning indicator on the project page of SonarQube:
How to Allow Redirects in NWebsec
In one old web application I had to add a redirect form one endpoint to the address of the new application. Everything compiled without a problem, but as soon as I accessed the old address, I got this exception:
NWebsec.Core.Exceptions.RedirectValidationException: A potentially dangerous redirect was detected. Add the destination to the whitelist in configuration if the redirect was intended. Offending redirect: https://my.url.whatever
How to Fix the PKIX Certificate Error After Upgrading SonarQube
After I updated SonarQube to version 9.7, I got this strange entry in the logs:
Caused by: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target
How to Grant Permissions to Create Sprints in Azure DevOps
Before you can assign work items to a sprint (or an iteration) in Azure DevOps, someone needs to create those sprints. That boring task is a great candidate for delegation. Unfortunately, the only role that can do this work by default is the project administrator. Before you turn everyone into a project administrator, let me show you a much more granular way to achieve the same goal.