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Renewing an Expired Apple Distribution Certificate (iOS)

September 16, 2020

I’ve just received the dreaded E-Mail saying my Distribution Certificate would no longer be valid in 30 days. That certificate is used to sign the Camjam photo sharing app - or at least I think that’s what it’s used for. Camjam is built using an Azure DevOps build pipeline so I’ll ultimately have to replace some Secure Files there. These are the steps that I’ve finally come up with: 1) Generate the Certificate Here, you’ll end up with a *. [...]

Connect Netlify to Azure Repos

December 29, 2018

This article describes how to use Netlify’s continuous deployment feature with an Azure Repos repository. After following the instructions below, each push to your Azure Repos repository will cause Netlify to grab your source, build it and publish the result as a web site. Prerequisites nodejs installed npm installed A git repository that has Azure Repos as only remote. The remote must have name = “origin” and it must be specified as an SSH URL. [...]

Testing this blog's content

September 21, 2018

This blog is built using hugo, a static site generator and a continuous integration/deployment process (CI/CD) is set up for automatic publication. But wait! There’s hardly any CI and even less CD without automated tests, right? I certainly don’t want to end up in developer hell for not setting up some! Run tests before publication Before updates are published to this blog, some tests must be executed. There are different aspects that might be tested, the two main ones would be implementation (e. [...]

CI for this Blog with Azure DevOps

September 13, 2018

After I had set up my hugo driven blog on my local machine I wanted a solution that would help me publish any changes in an easy manner and also a backup solution. Therefore I decided to use some continuous integration/deployment approach. Initial situation In order to set up the CI for the blog, the files comprising it are in a folder on my computer and the folder is a local git repository. [...]