Darrel O'Pry --living one bug at a time...

Recent Posts

Lost Content? Did you check Wayback Machine?

About a decade ago in a fit of pique after my old drupal site got hacked, I just rm -rf'd the whole server and all it's backups. At the time I had moved on from Drupal and the Drupal community and was busy with the Spry Group. Recently, I started thinking about what is next in my career. I decided I want to start looking for a senior technical executive role. When I started reviewing my online presence... I was not impressed and began regretting having trashed my old drupal site...

Announcing Pecans, an update server for Squirrel

At Spaceage.tv , we needed an update server for an Electron app using Squirrel. Our goals were to be able to use Github to manage our releases in our private repo and minimize our infrastructure and operating costs. We reviewed the existing options.

Pecans

Admin tools for GitHub Pages

I have been looking for a good admin UI for GitHub pages. Static sites are great until you have to hand them off to a non-developer. Then hilarity, confusion, and frustration ensues.

Agile Project Management on GitHub

For some reason clients want to know when their projects will be complete so they can plan for their business. As a project manager I normally want to know if the team's performance is changing and how it's changing so I can better support the team and troubleshoot operational issues.

.NET Click Once Side by Side Deployment

An issue I run across quite often is side by side deploy of click once applications. I decided to open source one of the click once targets files I work with to help other developers and systems engineers clean up their .NET deployment pipelines. Check it out ClickOnce.targets on GitHub... Fork it and help me improve it if you've got the time.