There exists several types of variables that can be added to YAML scripts. I really like the Microsoft page that lays out a table that specifies the type of variable and when its value is computed and set. I have reproduced it below. The Azure documentation is listed in the Links section. Variable Naming Restrictions User-defined and environment… Read More »
I needed the ability to automatically build one of several possible build types for testing. I also wanted to just change one variable in the YAML to update the build type. This is an excellent use for pipeline “conditions”. Conditions can be used to enable a step, job, or stage. In this example, the user can select between… Read More »
This an an example of many of the environmental variables available to the build pipeline. The following YAML step… …created the following (excerpted) list. Variables are treated in different ways depending on the type it is and how it is references in the YAML file. See Azure Pipeline Variables article for more information.
The typical use case for my department is that when a build is triggered in Azure DevOps, we automatically load the single Git repository. Note that for these examples, the self repository is named ProductXYZ. the self repo is the one that triggered the build to occur because of an automatic trigger (someone committed changes to the repo)… Read More »
I’ve dipped my toes in the Git waters for over 10 years. I must confess that I never really grokked it. It might be that I never worked in a multi-user repo environment with Git. Or it might be that working with it for one month every year wasn’t enough to make it stick. So I decided to… Read More »
We should be familiar with the concept of the loop. As demonstrated below, the WordPress template logic will continue to get posts until there are no more. With each iteration of the loop, we get the post using a SQL query and save the retrieve information int the global variable $wp_query. Notice that we do not need to… Read More »
the_category() function The function the_category() is frequently used Category pages to display the category name. In this example, we pass a single space to prevent it being used to create an unordered list of categories. Following is a line from “content.php”. The generated HTML is: If we had not passed any argument to the_category(), we would have seen… Read More »
I was working on a sidebar template and needed to get the category information for the page. Since I had the post ID, it was simple to get the category information with get_the_category(). When I pass in the post ID, it will return a WP_Term[] (an array of WP_Term objects). In this example, I request all posts in… Read More »
For .NET developers that are unfamiliar with Python, they may not be aware that the LINQ methods they use have already existed in the Python language for a long time. For Python developers who may be unfamiliar with LINQ, they are a very convenient extension methods that allow you to process lists by filtering and modifying the resulting… Read More »
SQL procedures can create multiple types of table entities – it’s up to you do decide which one is best. The Simplest: Table Variable If you just want to capture some information to be used in the body of a stored procedure and the table creation and usage is in a single batch (no “GO” statement between creation… Read More »