Blog posts from March 2021

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Working with a Git remote's default branch, using origin/HEAD (2 mins read).

How to interact with the default branch for a remote repo, as well as update it if needed.

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 19:15 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #git.

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Better Chef Reporting for Automated Pipelines (1 mins read).

How to get better machine-parseable reports for your Chef Pipelines.

Mon, 29 Mar 2021 19:39 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #chef #jenkins #test-kitchen #rubocop #cookstyle #rspec.

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Managing Your Chef Gem Dependencies More Easily in your Gemfile (2 mins read).

How to source your Chef Gem dependencies from your Chef cookbook's metadata.rb instead of duplicating them between files.

Wed, 24 Mar 2021 13:42 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #chef #ruby.

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Programatically Determining the Version of a Chef Cookbook (1 mins read).

How to determine a Chef cookbook's version programatically, using Ruby.

Tue, 23 Mar 2021 22:04 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #chef #ruby.

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How to Use Cookstyle to Autocorrect Style Issues (1 mins read).

How to use the cookstyle tool with Chef cookbooks to autocorrect style issues.

Sun, 14 Mar 2021 12:41 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #chef #ruby #chefdk #chef-workstation #cookstyle.

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Ensuring Consistent Code Style with Job DSL Repos (3 mins read).

How to make sure that your Job DSL configuration repos are managed with consistent code style.

Fri, 12 Mar 2021 19:05 by Jamie Tanna . #jenkins #job-dsl #spotless.

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Speeding Up Gradle Executions with Parallelisation (2 mins read).

How to make your Gradle builds faster, by taking advantage of parallelisation.

Thu, 11 Mar 2021 09:32 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #java #testing #gradle.

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Testing Time with Java (4 mins read).

How to make your Java tests better when dealing with java.util.time.

Mon, 08 Mar 2021 20:19 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #java #testing.

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Introducing tokens-pls, a Web Application to Test OAuth2 Code Flows (2 mins read).

Announcing my new project, tokens-pls, which allows for easier manual testing with the OAuth2 code flow for Public Clients.

Sat, 06 Mar 2021 13:42 by Jamie Tanna . #indieauth #oauth2 #token-pls.

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Using Proof of Key Code Exchange (PKCE) Using rack-oauth2 as an OAuth2 Client (1 mins read).

How to use the PKCE extension when using the Ruby library rack-oauth2 as an OAuth2 client.

Sat, 06 Mar 2021 13:41 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #ruby #rack #oauth2.

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Determining the (Git) Branch of the Jenkins Pipeline Job (1 mins read).

How to find out what branch the currently executing script has been checked out from.

Thu, 04 Mar 2021 09:01 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #jenkins #git.

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Encrypting and Decrypting Text with OpenSSL (2 mins read).

How to use openssl to encrypt text with a shared passphrase.

Wed, 03 Mar 2021 20:46 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #openssl #security #privacy.