The Techy Boy

I love to use Powershell and post-git module for day to day work with git. Sometimes, I have to rename my branches and I have this quick way to do to it. I love to write shortcuts in PowerShell's Profile to save time. Add this function in Powershell Profile.ps1: function RenameLocalBranch { param ( $ NewName ) $ currentBranch = git rev - parse -- abbrev - ref HEAD git branch - m $ NewName git push origin : $ currentBranch $ NewName git push origin - u $ NewName } save the profile.ps1 and open a new go to repo path call the function and give it a new branch name, it should update local and remote branch for you. here is the successful output: C:\Repos\proj [ name1 ≡ ] > RenameLocalBranch name2 Total 0 ( delta 0 ) , reused 0 ( delta 0 ) To https: // xxxxxxxxx.visualstudio.com / _git / xxxxxxxxxx - [ deleted ] name1 * [ new branch ] name2 -> name2 Everything up - to - date Branch ' name2 ...

I was cleaning my closet and found my HTC Incredible S (which I had bought in 2011). I gave the phone some juice for few hours and booted it, surprisingly it was working :) I thought about rooting it and flashing with new rom in market. I searched xda fourm and found this  (Cynogen 13 based Rom for Incredible S). I started to flash it. but, my bootloader was still locked. I went to HTCDev to unlock the bootloader. but Fastboot was not able to detect my phone. After 3 hrs of internet searching I found this simple fix. I think this can work with all the android phones. you need to create a registry entry (below) and reboot the system(PC). [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\usbflags\0BB40FF00100] "SkipBOSDescriptorQuery"=hex:01,00,00,00 after the registry fix, it worked liked a charm. Thanks

function GetRandomPassword { $ strSrc = ' 0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ!@#$^&(){}[],. ' $ max = $ strSrc.Length $ strPass = '' for ($ i = 0 ; $ i -lt 20 ; $ i += 1 ) { $ index = Get-Random - Minimum 0 - Maximum $ max $ c = $ strSrc [$ index ] $ strPass += $ c } return $ strPass } create the above function in your powershell profile and you can generate random password at anytime. Happy Coding!!

I was having hard time to find the reason why I was not able to find a custom method in a .Net DLL. Find your Assembly: PS C:\vstsagent\A1\_work\r1\a\_DevOps_CI\Scripts > [appdomain]::currentdomain . getassemblies() | Where - Object FullName - Match "MyAssembly" GAC Version Location --- ------- -------- False v4 . 0.30319 C:\vstsagent\A1\_work\r1\a\_DevOps_CI\Scripts\Tools\MyAssembly . dll PS C:\vstsagent\A1\_work\r1\a\_DevOps_CI\Scripts & gt; $ a = [appdomain]::currentdomain . getassemblies() | Where - Object FullName - Match "MyAssembly" PS C:\vstsagent\A1\_work\r1\a\_DevOps_CI\Scripts & gt; $ a GAC Version Location --- ------- -------- False v4 . 0.30319 C:\vstsagent\A1\_work\r1\a\_DevOps_CI\Scripts\Tools\MyAssembly . dll When I was trying to get the Types in the assembly, I was getting the exception: PS C:\vstsagent\A1\_work\r1\a\_DevOps_CI\Scripts > ...

If you want to save credentials in a file and later want to use it in a script here is the trick. You can use  PowerShell's built-in XML serialization (Clixml): #1. Get The Credentials $cred = Get-Credentails #2. Save the Credentails as a file $cred | Export-CliXml "MyFileName.xml" #3. Read the Credentials back from file $myCred = Import-CliXml "<Path>/MyFileName.xml"

I came across this simple query which can list out all the references columns of a particular column SELECT t.name AS table_name, SCHEMA_NAME(schema_id) AS schema_name, c.name AS column_name FROM sys.tables AS t INNER JOIN sys.columns c ON t.OBJECT_ID = c.OBJECT_ID WHERE c.name LIKE '%ColumnName%' ORDER BY schema_name, table_name; It will give all the reference tablename and schema name along with column name as well

The very first question arises in the mind is " What is DevOps? " Few will say it combined team of Developers and Operations. Some will say it is a person "DevOps Engineer" who works with multiple teams to get the things done in corrective manner. Further questions comes in mind are: What is the corrective manner of doing things? How it is different from our "current" method of doing things? Do I need an extra set of tools for this? And, most important of them all, why should I use it? Let me tell you what I've learn in my 3 days of DevOps training. What is DevOps? DevOps is not a team, or tool, DevOps is a culture. It is a culture for collaboration, Integration and Communication between different cross functional teams for  Continuous Delivery . DevOps is not an additional team, but it is the existing team members who work together. It breaks the barrier between Infrastructure and Code at early stage. DevOps also encoura...