I'm a Brisbane-based software developer, and founder of Octopus Deploy, a DevOps software company. This is my personal blog where I write about my journey with Octopus and software development.
This is an old post and doesn't necessarily reflect my current thinking on a topic, and some links or images may not work. The text is preserved here for posterity.12 months ago I blogged about how I'd left LinkedIn [https://paulstovell.com/blog/cost-of-social-networks]. At
This is an old post and doesn't necessarily reflect my current thinking on a topic, and some links or images may not work. The text is preserved here for posterity.Last Saturday I went to DDD Brisbane [http://www.dddbrisbane.com/]. I was giving a talk on Octopus
This is an old post and doesn't necessarily reflect my current thinking on a topic, and some links or images may not work. The text is preserved here for posterity.I've been building out the new UI for Octopus 2.0 in Angular.js [http://angularjs.
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Octopus Deploy utilizes X.509 certificates to allow for secure communication between the central Octopus server, and the remote agents running the Tentacle service [https://octopus.com/documentation/security/octopus-tentacle]. Upon installation, both services generate a self-signed X509 certificate. An administrator then establishes a trust relationship between the two by
This is an old post and doesn't necessarily reflect my current thinking on a topic, and some links or images may not work. The text is preserved here for posterity.> "We do two week sprints here," said Daniel. "Each fortnight we pick the items
This is an old post and doesn't necessarily reflect my current thinking on a topic, and some links or images may not work. The text is preserved here for posterity.I mentioned before that I'm rebuilding the Octopus Deploy web portal to be API-first [https://paulstovell.
This is an old post and doesn't necessarily reflect my current thinking on a topic, and some links or images may not work. The text is preserved here for posterity.Tonight I'm having fun setting up a new build server with TeamCity [http://www.jetbrains.com/
This is an old post and doesn't necessarily reflect my current thinking on a topic, and some links or images may not work. The text is preserved here for posterity.For the next release of Octopus Deploy we're going to be moving to an API-first model
This is an old post and doesn't necessarily reflect my current thinking on a topic, and some links or images may not work. The text is preserved here for posterity.In moving the Octopus portal to Nancy [https://paulstovell.com/blog/designing-the-octopus-deploy-2.0-http-api], I wanted to have some
This is an old post and doesn't necessarily reflect my current thinking on a topic, and some links or images may not work. The text is preserved here for posterity.Yesterday I played Game Dev Tycoon [http://www.greenheartgames.com/app/game-dev-tycoon/], which is a brilliant new game
This is an old post and doesn't necessarily reflect my current thinking on a topic, and some links or images may not work. The text is preserved here for posterity.The Windows and .NET platforms are a great stack for building and deploying applications when you have control
This is an old post and doesn't necessarily reflect my current thinking on a topic, and some links or images may not work. The text is preserved here for posterity.This week I needed to investigate and fix some bugs that customers behind proxy servers were experiencing in