Ken Dale

Sometimes it’s useful to ensure a project works with multiple versions of runtimes. In the following example, multiple versions of Node.js will be used to ensure a project builds successfully with ...

For ASP.NET applications it can be useful to make a request to an application immediately after deployment to bring the application online. When using AppVeyor for push deployments, we can run this...

https://xkcd.com/1597/ While I generally don’t do that, here’s what I currently do: Setting up a repository locally Using Stuntman as an example: > git clone [email protected]:kendaleiv/stuntm...

Previously, I wrote about Publishing to npm Using AppVeyor. This is a similar post, but specifically geared toward publishing an npm package to MyGet. Setup environment variable In the AppVeyor w...

Typically, running a Jekyll site locally for the first time requires a basic knowledge of using the command line. It usually involves a few commands: bundle exec jekyll serve (with the optional --i...

AppVeyor does not currently provide built-in support for publishing to npm (at least, currently). Instead, we can provide the npm token as an AppVeyor UI configured environment variable and run npm...

Here’s some copy-pastable commands for creating SQL Server Express LocalDb instances: "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\110\Tools\Binn\SqlLocalDB.exe" create "v11.0" 11.0 -s "C:\Program ...

We’ve made some good contributions to the world of open source this year. Our major projects are listed at our open source page. Stuntman Stuntman is a development time user switcher, helping you...

Imagine for a moment you’re an insurance agent selling a product to a client. You’re working with an web application that requires the client’s age. You ask the client. They reply with their date o...

Releasing new versions from continuous integration, rather than someone’s machine in a team environment is a great way to release new versions of npm packages in a predicable and controlled manner....

Last year we embarked on a mission to update the overall authentication and authorization strategy for Ritter Insurance Marketing. After evaluating the different options, we replaced our existing h...

Postman is a great tool for testing HTTP/HTTPS endpoints. It’s useful for quick tests, as well as authoring detailed test suites. Even tests that rely on the output of other tests can be assembled!...

Stuntman enables our team to work locally with multi-role ASP.NET applications quickly and easily. Stuntman enables developers to switch users at runtime in their ASP.NET web applications, without ...

On our team TeamCity server we build repositories by default using build.cmd in the repository root. This has a few advantages. One advantage is being able to run what TeamCity runs locally. It is...

We use Jekyll for this blog. If you’re running Windows, this post can help you get it working quickly. Here we go Use Chocolatey to install Ruby v2 and the associated Ruby Development Kit version...

Choosy devs choose Slack. It’s dev tested, mother approved. Slack has become the main source of our team collaboration. One of the benefits of Slack is the sheer number of pre-built integrations. ...

At Ritter Insurance Marketing, we utilize IdentityServer3 for our authentication mechanism. It has been almost a year of hosting in Windows Azure with great success. While it has been a positive ex...

At Ritter Insurance Marketing we utilize Azure Web Apps for hosting many of our web applications. Azure Web Apps is a platform as a service (PaaS) offering from Microsoft, enabling their customers ...