Creating Builds in TFS 2015

Building a Custom PowerShell Cmdlet in C#

Over the time I’ve spent automating deployment and build processes, I have fallen out with plain command line applications and batch files. In their stead, I favour msbuild and writing custom tasks to wrap what would have been a command line application in the past.

People Work Within the System

From W. Edwards Deming’s work:

Having the Right Kind of Argument(s)

I saw a PowerShell script from a few days ago got me thinking about command line arguments and calling other programs from within a script.

Making Animal Farm Great Again

Apropos of nothing, here’s a splendid old, orangey pig standing proudly on his wall. A wall that separates him from all those bad hombres in the farmyard.

Finding Differences in Folder Content

Another contender for the department of “I might need to remember how to do this again one day”, I occasionally need to update a set of small binary files that are kept in source control. The process involves checking out the files, running a bit of PowerShell to generate a new set of files, then checking them back in again.

Individual Heroics

Individual heroics cannot substitute for lasting systemic change.

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Minecraft Blocks Cheatsheet

There are a huge number of block types available to build through the Python API.

Building a house in Minecraft

The Python API for the raspberry pi edition of Minecraft is really nice and easy to get started with. There aren’t an overwhelming number of commands and the structure and naming all seem to make sense in the Minecraft world. Stuff About Code has a nice guide to the Minecraft API.

Hello, Minecraft

I’m going to be doing some tinkering with Minecraft on the Raspberry Pi. Specifically, writing some code to do some building using the Python interface.