Octopus 4.0 Review
Octopus 4.0 (v4.0.4) was officially released as non-release candidate on Tuesday, November 21st 2017. Since then, Octopus has already pushed forward to v4.1 since and are at v4.1.5 as of last week on Wednesday,...
Category: Opinion
The epic fail of Microsoft, Verizon and dead on arrival Lumia 950/950XL
It’s Tuesday, December 8th, 2015 and in the United States, we still have this stupid arrangement within the mobile phone industry with infrastructure cartels also known as carriers. On the other end of the...
The Zen of Deployment Automation Retrospective
Every now and then, I’m asked by one of our Octopus users: “Sometimes we need to change one or two files. Can I just deploy one or two files?” It’s at this point, I...
Octopus Deploy 3.0 details emerge
For months, I’ve been anticipating Octopus Deploy 3.0. The details have been slowly emerging over the past few months dating back to late November 2014 from several blog posts from the Octopus team. Each post has...
The Zen of Deployment Automation
I work with a lot of users using our Octopus Deploy server on a daily basis. It seems that not all, but many of our users don’t fully grasp the philosophy behind automated deployments so...
Thoughts on Octopus Deploy 2.6
Now that Octopus Deploy 2.6 was just released, I feel I can publish some of my opinions on it. I installed the pre-release on my Azure instance weeks ago just before Thanksgiving and I’ve just upgraded...
Initial thoughts on Octopus Deploy 3.0 – from RavenDB back to SQL Server
This is pretty big news for any Octopus Deploy users. Paul Stovell has hinted a return back to SQL Server over the past few months in blog posts and uservoice forum comments, but from the...
Windows 10 Tech Preview – first impressions
I think most people were surprised by the announcement of Windows 10. I’m not sure why the jump was necessary. Granted the number 10 is a psychologically satisfying number, it seems strange to jump...
Apple’s regression from the desktop
I consider myself nowadays to be desktop OS (operating system) agnostic. I’ve used numerous operating systems and I enjoy trying them all out. I like some more than others of course. I recently tried...
Backup master class: no attendance required
In October of last year, I ranted about Joel Hruska’s article at ExtremeTech about his “Backup Master Class” article on RAID. After reading the whole series of articles I realize Joel was expanding on...
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