Producing packages for Windows Package Manager
In my previous articles about winget I talked about installing packages but I did not talk about producing packages for Windows Package Manager. So let's set things right.
Customize your applications when installing them with winget
In my last article about Windows Package Manager, I said that with winget I was missing "being able to specify some parameters for a package installation (like the workload and components to install for Visual Studio 2019)". Well, that was before I went through a few GitHub issues of the winget-cli repository that mentioned the override
option.
Install your applications with winget
You probably have already heard of the new Windows Package Manager and its command-line tool winget
that allows you to automate installing and upgrading software on your Windows 10 computer.
Week 9, 2021 - Tips I learned this week
I often see developers talking on Twitter or Dev.to about things they have learned during the previous day or the previous week. I like the idea so I decided to write my first article about tips I learned during this past week. I am not intending to write an article like this every week but from time to time when I feel I have something interesting to share or that I want to keep track of for myself.
Clean up your local git branches.
When working on a git repository, I often have to manually delete old local branches that I don't use anymore. That's not a huge waste of time but still, that's something I have to do quite often so I decided to automate that.
Coming across Gitpod
The other day when I was looking for a way to automate my development environment setup, I came across Gitpod. Not really what I was looking for but I discovered an awesome tool for working on open source projects.
Testing your API with REST Client
Let's talk about tooling and testing an API!