Matt Richardson

Recent Posts

  • April 20, 2016

    New TeamCity Octopus Deploy Build Trigger Plugin

    My side project for the last few months has been a plugin for TeamCity that allows you to setup build triggers for certain events in Octopus Deploy.As of today, I’m declaring it ready for public use. :DIt allows you to trigger builds when: a depl...

  • April 12, 2016

    Continuous Integration with Octopus Deploy Step Templates

    Octopus Deploy is a great tool in the .net space for deploying applications and managing the lifecycle of the deployments across different environments.One of the really nice features is the extensibility around step templates (the basic building ...

  • December 04, 2015

    Converting a Portable Class Library project to use project.json

    I’ve been helping setting up a whole bunch of builds in TeamCity for a client, moving them over from TFS. As the build log is, err, not that easy to see in TFS, the developers have not been paying too much attention to the warnings that the build ...

  • October 05, 2015

    The blog is back

    After an, ahem, small hiatus, the blog is back.To be fair, I’ve been attempting to get it back for quite a while now, which is a bit of a challenge with a toddler and a 3 month old causing havok left right and centre.All sorts of pain involved in ...

  • August 09, 2009

    Sometimes I just don’t understand…

    Sometimes I just don’t think I’m ever going to understand this country…