Working on my code example for my upcoming SQL Saturday 710 talk I ran into a performance issue. My laptop is an older MacBook Pro and I was trying to run my example on a Windows virtual machine…
What is SQL Saturday? Good question.
SQL Saturday is an entire day of talks, training, and socializing about databases and data storage. SQL Saturday 710 is on May 5th in Edmonton but there are SQL Saturdays, with different numbers at the end, all around the world on different dates.
[Read More]You created a private Putty key on Windows workstation to access a remote service but now you need to access that same remote service from a Mac workstation. In my case I need to access the same Git repository from both machines. I created the key using the steps outlined in a previous post.
Quick aside: Before we continue you need to decide if it’s better to copy your private key or just generate a new private/public key pair on the Mac. If the service you are connecting too does not support multiple keys then you have now choice but to copy it. Assuming that the service does allow multiple keys then consider these security implications of copying your private key.
[Read More]When I was first figuring out how to port the BEMCheckBox to Xamarin I built the framework manually. This is obviously not a good long term solution so I set about figuring out how to automate the build. The first step was to install the TeamCity build agent on the Mac. The official TeamCity documentation on how to do this can be found here.
First a little bit about my setup. My TeamCity server is on a Azure virtual machine (i.e. it’s in the cloud). My Mac build machine (Mac Book Pro) is sitting beside me in my basement office. Some of the steps below might differ if your setup is different, such as having the TeamCity server and Mac build machine on the same network.
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