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How to Fix the PKIX Certificate Error After Upgrading SonarQube

2023-01-24 by Johnny Graber

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 Should you run into the same error, append a ;encrypt=false to the connection string to your SQL Server database:

sonar.jdbc.url=jdbc:sqlserver://localhost;databaseName=SonarDB;encrypt=false

1	sonar.jdbc.url=jdbc:sqlserver://localhost;databaseName=SonarDB;encrypt=false

I saw a …

My Highlights of NDC Oslo 2022

2023-01-052022-10-04 by Johnny Graber

Back in Oslo at last. After an online edition of NDC Oslo in 2020 and the travel restrictions at the start of the Omicron wave in 2021, I haven’t been to Oslo for a while. Visiting in September is in many ways different from June. It is colder, and it gets dark early (around 7 …

NDC Oslo 2022 Workshop: Code That Fits in Your Head

2022-09-27 by Johnny Graber

Developers spend a lot more time on reading code than writing it. Therefore, if we want to get more effective, we must take a deep look at the reading part. In this Workshop Mark Seemann uses a set of heuristics to address the common obstacles developers face when it comes to understanding code. Keep in …

5 Years of Writing a Blog Post Every Week

2022-06-28 by Johnny Graber

For the last 5 years I posed at least one post per week. I like to take a moment to celebrate this milestone and look back on how I did this and what I learned in doing so. The NDC 2017 had a long-lasting effect on me. Especially the presentation by Troy Hunt on “Hack …

What to Do if Visual Studio Cannot Run Your ASP.Net Application Outside of the Debugger

2022-05-31 by Johnny Graber

After a long time, I am back at an annoying problem with Visual Studio. One ASP.Net application works when I start it through “With Debugging“, but it fails when I try “Run Without Debugging“: The error I get is this one: Unable to launch the IIS Express Web server. Output for IIS Express: Failed to …

What to Do if Git Loses Files When You Move a Folder

2022-05-17 by Johnny Graber

While refactoring the folder structure of a project I run into something strange. Git suddenly stopped to track a few files and marked them as deleted. That was not my intention then those files are needed. How can we fix this? The direct approach The not working approach was this: Open the project in …

Shorten Your Feedback Cycle

2022-05-10 by Johnny Graber

One of the most important ideas of agile software development is for me the short feedback cycle. Instead of working for weeks or even months at a problem on our own, we try to get feedback as fast as we can. That not only works with user stories; we can apply this idea to every …

How to Update 70 Projects to .Net 4.8 With Ease?

2022-04-19 by Johnny Graber

In this spring cleaning we had to update our last application to .Net 4.8. Unfortunately, the project is rather big: The good news was that the projects are on .Net 4.7.2 and there are no breaking changes. Still, updating 70 projects by hand is nothing I look forward to. Luckily for us, there is a …

How to Import Data From Web Sites Into Excel

2022-03-22 by Johnny Graber

Did you ever need to put a table from a web site into an Excel file? If so, you probably used copy & paste and then fixed all the formatting errors and wasted a lot of time. There is another way you may not be aware of: Excel has an import feature to load data …

How to Get Rid of the Annoying Editor Movement in VS Code

2022-03-08 by Johnny Graber

The last update of VS Code has an annoying side effect: When you start typing in a file, the whole content moves one line down to give space for three dots on top of the editor: I noticed this behaviour especially with files that are not under version control. That is the important clue, then …