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How Visual Studio Online won me over in under 90 minutes

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TFSFor the last year or so, I’ve been living in a mostly Atlassian world: JIRA OnDemand, BitBucket, SourceTree… likely more before the year is done. Sure, I still use our on-premise TFS 2010 at work along with Visual Studio of various editions, but my ALM world has really been rocked by those gorgeous tools from Atlassian. This past Friday I should have been doing something productive (like writing a blog post) but suddenly I was captivated by the world of Visual Studio Online. Continue reading “How Visual Studio Online won me over in under 90 minutes” →

Sitecore Continuous Deployment: Video presentation from SVUG

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SitecoreI had planned on kicking off a short series on how to tackle the challenges of Sitecore Continuous Deployment, but after I had written my post the Sitecore Virtual User Group (SVUG) held an online Q&A presentation by Jason Bert on Continuous Integration & Deployment. The presentation is a great introduction to the concepts and challenges.

Some notes on the presentation

Tools used:

TeamCity (build), Git (source control), Octopus Deploy (deployment), and Sitecore Courier (create update packages).

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Git branching model

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gitI haven’t really had the chance to work with Git much over the years, other than creating a GitHub account and performing some simple merges on my own projects. For work reasons, however, I’ve been looking into sustainable models for using Git as an enterprise source control for larger, long-running projects.

My investigations started with the following branching strategy: http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/

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A starters guide to Git for TFS GitWits…

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This is a great blog post for those users who have hesitated adopting TFS as an ALM tool because of their dislike of TFS source control. René covers the advantages of using Git with TFS, and also maps it out for users who want to make the transition.

The Road to ALM

When I started my development career way back in 1999, the first Source Control System I ever used was Visual SourceSafe. After a few years I switched to SVN for a while and I liked that. The, in 2005 came Team Foundation Server and I embraced it, including the Source Control of course. And since then I must say, I really like TFS Source Control. You need to remember that the server must always know what you are doing, but once you know that and practice that it is simply a great and easy to use Version Control System.

When TFS 2012 introduced Local Workspaces, it became even better, because now all the advantages of TFS and all the advantages of a system like for example SVN were combined. The perfect world !

But then came Git. And I must say that is something different. When I first heard…

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