Category Archives: Tooling

Development tooling

Upgrade to SonarQube 9

We use SonarQube to scan our code (see Adding SonarQube to TFS build) and have version 8 LTS up-and-running for some time now. The upgrade to SonarQube 9 and future version 9 LTS is upcoming. Here is how we prepare for … Continue reading

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Fixed drag-and-drop on my Macbook

For some time I’ve been having trouble with drag-and-drop on my Macbook. In the finder a popup would show or the file rename action would trigger. Turns out there is a setting I missed during one of the MacOs upgrades. … Continue reading

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Developing inside a Container

I’m contributing to Sonarqube-Sql-Plugin (https://github.com/erictummers/sonar-sql-plugin) and creating pull requests to merge back my changes. Getting my environment setup was easy using homebrew (https://brew.sh) but still required some work. Here is how VSCode makes this much easier with developing inside a … Continue reading

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Code Notes snippet manager

Like many developers I have some snippets with code. These snippets are dear to me and I use them all the time. Without a real place to store them I would be lost. This is where Code Notes comes in. … Continue reading

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macOS Big Sur update without issues

My macbook became my work-from-home device and I was hesitant to update to Big Sur. The question today is “when to update, not if”. So I made a backup, had my trusty macbook 2009 ready for emergencies and started the … Continue reading

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