Git tracks the author of every commit. If you do not modify anything, the global settings will be used. That is great for the day-to-day use, but it may not be what you want in all situations.
If you do pair-programming, you may want to make the commits as a team. If you commit your code on the command line, you can use this option with your commit:
git commit --author="John Doe <[email protected]>"
One working project failed to compile after I made a fresh checkout. The same commit that before worked without a problem now got me this compiler error:
Could not find a part of the path C:\*****\bin\roslyn\csc.exe
On the 3th of March 2020 .Net Core 3.0 reaches the end of support. It is not a long term supported version and if you did not upgrade to 3.1 yet, you definitely should wait no longer. We did the upgrade for the .Net User Group Bern site two months ago and had no problems at all. Upgrading from 2.2. to 3.0 was a big challenge where Daniel and René had to do a lot of work.
An often-overlooked combination of tools to develop software are pen and paper. Don't panic, I do not propose to write a first draft of your code on paper and only use a computer for the final version. Some universities or companies in their hiring process may do that, but that is not what I mean.
Last week I did something stupid: While working in the train I decided now would be a good time to upgrade ReSharper to the newest version. It took far longer than expected and when the train reached my station, I had to put my laptop into the sleep mode. As I started it again in the next morning, the ReSharper installation finished and everything looked fine. Except it was not.
Sometimes your Git repositories move to another location. You certainly can throw your local copy away and clone it from the new location. However, there is a simpler way that only requires you to update the remote URL and you can continue with your local copy – including all your unpushed changes.
All of a sudden, our build agent could no longer communicate with Azure. A failed network change forced us to set a proxy server manually. While most browsers use the system proxy, the build agent did not.
It is the time of the year where most new year's resolutions are already forgotten. Should you still want to learn new things I have a great podcast for your. It is not about the shiny new frameworks, instead it will help you to improve your existing applications.
The podcast Legacy Code Rocks! hosted by Andrea Goulet and M. Scott Ford is my favourite one. They know what they are talking about and find guests that have interesting insights to share. I am constantly surprised how much I can learn from every episode and how much of those things can be applied 1:1 to my applications – and that by just spending between 30 and 45 minutes per episode.
Some super simple tricks take a long time until you find them. The little trick of this post is probably around since the Windows Operating System got its first graphical user interface. You can browse to a folder in the Windows Explorer and then type cmd into the address bar:
One of the most important concepts of object-oriented design is encapsulation. You try to hide all the internal things of a class from the other developers and only offer them a subset of functionality to use. You can achieve this by setting an appropriate access modifier for your methods and classes: