This year on the conference SoCraTes I hosted a session for the first time. It was about working on a Windows system from the perspective of a Linux user. A big thank to @ndrssmn, who motivated to host this session. @yooogan was so nice to summarize the session in the SoCraTes wiki (big thank for that). But the wiki …

I'd like to share some of my thoughts about my approach to solve the Gilded Rose Refactoring Kata by Emily Bache. If you don't know this kata, read the description for a better understanding. I have published my whole solution on GitHub . I tried to make a commit after every step, so you can keep track of my steps in …

In one of my current project, I deal with how to run a Continuous Integration (CI) infrastructure on Windows machines. I have had experience in running a CI infrastructure for five years, but it was always on Linux machines. So in the next months I will write some blog posts about my challenge with Windows machines …

For deleting a Windows service in Windows CMD, you have to call 1sc delete "Service Name" This doesn't work in PowerShell, because sc is an alias for the cmdlet Set-Content in PowerShell. Deleting Windows service in PowerShell can be done by calling 1sc.exe delete "Service Name" Note, that PowerShell has to be run as …

If you google "serverspec install ubuntu", you find the information that a package called ruby-serverspec in the standard package repository can be used to install Serverspec on an Ubuntu 14.04 LTS based system. Unfortunately, this package installs an outdated version of Serverspec. The next point is that if you try to …

Guest Contribution by Markus Jenderek We wanted to evaluate the new Confluence plugin LivingDoc as a replacement to Fitnesse in order to execute automated web GUI tests. Confluence 5.7.1 (Non-Cloud version) Inside Confluence HSQL In-Memory DB for evaluation purpose LivingDoc plugin 1.0.0.jar Selenium Webdriver for …

In September I visited the conference "Herbstcampus" in Nuremberg. I took notes about some sessions, that I like to share with you. The notes are in German. SOLIDes Design - Kriterien für objektorientiertes Design by David Tanzer Wie geht's? Was geht? Wann hat es Sinn? - Portierung von COBOL-Programmen nach Java by …

Groovy is a scripting language, so it is possible to run Groovy code without compiling to Java byte code. The necessary condition is that Groovy is installed on your machine. Then, running a Groovy script in a shell looks like the following line. 1groovy TestScript.groovy Now, something is wrong with the script, only …

In this post I'd like to share resources that help me learning and understanding Git. Links "Getting Git Right" tutorials Interactive Git Cheatsheet git ready Collection of tips based on use cases. Article "Git ist einfach – wenn man weiß, wie" (in German) This article describes how the data model of Git works. …

Last update: 2019-11-04 I was asked some time ago, which sources I used in order to inform me about writing software documentation. This motivates me to collect all sources, that helps me, in this blog post. Most of the sources are in German. Links Arc42 Homepage: This site is about the Arc42 template. This template …