Sooner or later we all run into this situation with Git: We committed a change that should not be committed and we only found that out after we hit commit in out IDE. If we did not yet push this change to our centralised repository, we can use this command to undo our mistake:
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I am a big fan of Octopus Deploy. This tool helps us to deploy our applications with ease and in a reliable way. In fact, it is so easy that I always forget the few important settings you need to have in place so that Octopus can do its magic. We use SSIS to synchronise …
Synology builds great NAS (Network Attached Storage) devices. For 9 years my DS1512+ worked like a charm. It still works, but since it reached the end of support it is time to move to another device – the DS1618+. The big question I had was how do I move the files from one NAS to …
With the .gitignore file we can tell Git to ignore certain types of files (like *.exe) or whole folders. All it takes is an entry like this if we want to ignore the folder database:
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/database |
As explained in another post, we can ignore the .gitignore by putting a ! in front of the entry. …
For a feature I build I needed a simple way to reverse the direction the for-statement iterates through a list. As it turns out, Python has a built-in function called reversed() that does exactly that. This post is part of my journey to learn Python. You can find the other parts of this series here. …
When you use a Python script to automate things, you may not always want to stay in the directory you run your script from. Let us look how we can change the current working directory and save a lot of typing. This post is part of my journey to learn Python. You can find the …
If you need to copy multiple values from one document to another, you can go and copy & past every value on its own. That works, but there is a better and faster way. Windows 10 comes with a well-hidden clipboard history that you already have on your machine. With this feature you to copy …
Every 6 months, Ubuntu releases a new version of its Linux distribution. Since I always forget the command to update my installation, I wrote it down this time. And I added two additional steps you should not miss. First, make a backup. If something goes wrong, you keep your data and may only need to …
For some posts code is not enough. An animated image that shows the effect of a code snipped helps much more than hundreds words of additional explanation. But how can we create animations like this one I made for the progress bar example? ScreenToGif The little tool ScreenToGif is a great help. You can …
With your StyleCop installation done and your custom configuration in place, you are now ready to clean-up your project. This is part three of my small series of StyleCop for .Net 5 Projects: Part 1: StyleCop for .Net 5 Projects: Installation Part 2: StyleCop for .Net 5 Projects: Custom Configuration Part 3: StyleCop for .Net …