Gary Ewan Park

I have been an active member of the Stack Overflow community, answering questions on topics such as: - Chocolatey - Cake - GitVersion - GitFlow In 2021, I am currently within the top 2% of users on the site, with my reputation score having increased by around 3000 points.

I am one of the core contributors to the Cake project: https://github.com/cake-build/cake In 2021 we have shipped 6 releases of Cake, and we are currently getting ready to ship the 2.0.0 release (which includes support for .NET 6.0). Across it different platforms, Cake has over 24 million downloads: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Cake/ https://www.nuget.org/packages/Cake.Tool/ https://chocolatey.org/packages/cake.portable

I am the primary maintainer of the GitReleaseManager project, which is a tool to help with the creation of release notes for your Open Source projects. In 2021, there were two new releases of GitReleaseManager. Across its different versions, this application has been downloaded over 300000 times. https://www.nuget.org/packages/gitreleasemanager/ https://www.nuget.org/packages/GitReleaseManager.Tool/ https://chocolatey.org/packages/gitreleasemanager.portable

Every Monday (when possible) evening (in the UK) I stream live on Twitch. Since the start of 2021, I have done 34 streams, covering topics like: * Chocolatey * Cake * GitHub Codespaces * Visual Studio Extensions * Cake.Bakery * Cake Addins * GitReleaseManager * Creating a new Azure Website My stream currently has 348 followers.

My YouTube channel currently has 331 subscribers, and I publish recordings of all my Twitch streams there. In addition, I create release videos for the open source projects that I help maintain and host them on the channel. Also, I try to create small instructional videos on how to use Chocolatey, Chocolatey GUI, and other open source projects.

I am the primary maintainer of the Chocolatey GUI project: https://github.com/chocolatey/chocolateygui Which is a GUI wrapper around the Chocolatey Package Manager. In 2021, we completed 5 releases of Chocolatey GUI, and this project now has over 1 million downloads: https://chocolatey.org/packages/ChocolateyGUI

I am the primary maintainer of the Chocolatey project: https://github.com/chocolatey/choco Which is a Package Manager for Windows. In 2021, there were 3 new releases of Chocolatey, which have so far been downloaded over 11 million times. Chocolatey as a project has been downloaded almost 250 million times. https://chocolatey.org/packages/chocolatey

I am the maintainer of the Cake.Recipe project, which is an opinionated set of build scripts for Cake. In 2021, there were two new releases of Cake.Recipe. This system is used as the primary mechanism for building the Cake Addins that exist within the Cake-Contrib Organisation on GitHub: https://github.com/cake-contrib Collectively, Cake-Contrib Addins have been downloaded over 42 million times: https://www.nuget.org/profiles/cake-contrib While Cake.Recipe isn't used for all of these addins, it is used for the majority of them

This was released to NuGet.org as: Cake.Tool: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Cake.Tool/2.0.0 Cake.Frosting: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Cake.Frosting/2.0.0

On tonights stream, we picked up where we left off on the last stream (two weeks ago), and continued working on the VSCode Extension for Cake. We spent some time removing all on the deprecated runners from the extension, as well as updating the docs around what the extension provides. After finishing up the core work, we spent some time testing all the functionality to ensure that everything is working as expected. Happy to say that at the end of the stream, everything was working, and we could start getting things ready to create a Pull Request. The end result was the creation of this Pull Request: https://github.com/cake-build/cake-vscode/pull/592

This was released to both NuGet: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Cake.Bakery/0.9.0-beta0002 and Chocolatey: https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/cake-bakery.portable/0.9.0-beta0002

This was released to both NuGet: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Cake.Bakery/0.9.0-beta0001 and Chocolatey: https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/cake-bakery.portable/0.9.0-beta0001

This was released to both NuGet: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Cake.Bakery/0.8.1 and Chocolatey: https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/cake-bakery.portable/0.8.1

I have been checking out the gigsboat CLI from fellow GitHub Star Liran Tal (https://github.com/lirantal). This looks like a really useful tool, that will help folks that do public speaking. I have been providing feedback on the getting started process, and I made a PR to improve the docs. I also have some ideas about other functionality that can be provided by this tool, but this would be the subject of another PR. My usage of this tool can be seen here: https://github.com/gep13-talks/public-speaking

This was released to both NuGet: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Cake.Bakery/0.8.0 and Chocolatey: https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/cake-bakery.portable/0.8.0

In this short video I show how it is possible to install and run Chocolatey on Windows 11. Including setting up PowerShell Tab Completion for Chocolatey commands and options. Full installation instructions can be found here: https://chocolatey.org/install

In this short video, I walk through the bugs that have been or, or the features that have been added to the Chocolatey CLI, version 0.11.3. Full release notes can be found here: https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/choco/release-notes#october-27th-2021 If you find that there are any issues with this extension, then reach out to the support team. If you find that there are any other problems with Chocolatey CLI, then you can raise a issue here: https://github.com/chocolatey/choco/issues Or, feel free to ask a question in out Gitter Chat Room here: https://gitter.im/chocolatey/choco

In this short video, I walk through the changes that have been included within the Chocolatey Central Management 0.7.0 release. Full release notes can be found here: https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/central-management/release-notes#november-17th-2021

This is the seventh in a series of videos which aims to show how you can contribute to the Chocolatey documentation site, which can be found at https://docs.chocolatey.org. This video explain how you can get a GitHub Codespaces like experience using a devcontainer.json file running through Docker Desktop. This site is hosted on GitHub Pages, and the source code can be found here: https://github.com/chocolatey/docs This is a static website, which is generated using Statiq: https://www.statiq.dev/

On tonights stream, we were working on more closely integrating Cake.Bakery into the Cake Extension for Visual Studio Code. Cake.Bakery works with Omnisharp to provide intellisense for Cake Scripts within Visual Studio Code, and currently, there is a specific step that needs to be completed to download and set this up when working within Visual Studio Code. To make a more seamless integration, the suggestion was made that on initialisation of the extension, that it should automatically download Cake.Bakery and set it up with Omnisharp. On the stream, we worked on ensuring that it would be possible to update the Omnisharp configuration file with the download Cake.Bakery binary location, and once it was clear that this was possible, we worked on downloading the Cake.Bakery nupkg into the extension folder. We then tested this to ensure it was all working, and happy to say that it was. Then we did a bit of investigation into what other code could be removed from the extension. WIth the release of Cake 2.0.0, the Cake.CoreClr library is now not supported, so it makes sense to remove this from the extension. Still some work to complete here though. Will likely be the topic of the next stream.

This was released to both NuGet: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Cake.Bakery/0.7.2 and Chocolatey: https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/cake-bakery.portable/0.7.2

This was released to both NuGet: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Cake.Bakery/0.7.1 and Chocolatey: https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/cake-bakery.portable/0.7.1

This was released to both NuGet: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Cake.Bakery/0.7.0 and Chocolatey: https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/cake-bakery.portable/0.7.0

On tonights stream, we went through the PR that had been created in the bakery repository here: https://github.com/cake-build/bakery/pull/138 This was an initial stab at updating bakery to use .NET 6.0. This PR was pulled down locally, and the feedback from the PR was addresses, and a local build attempted. This ran into a few problems, but these were worked through, and got to a point where the local build was fully working. With the build complete, the Cake.Bakery.exe was tested with the latest 2.0.0-rc0001 release of Cake, and proven to work, and to provide intellisense for the new aliases, etc. A new PR was created: https://github.com/cake-build/bakery/pull/143 since updating the existing PR wasn't possible, however, there were some issues with the GitHub Actions and AppVeyor build, but we ran out of time to get this completed. Very happy with the progress that was made on the stream though!

This was released to NuGet.org as: Cake.Tool: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Cake.Tool/2.0.0-rc0001 Cake.Frosting: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Cake.Frosting/2.0.0-rc0001

I was interviewed by Isaac Levin on his Coffee and Open Source stream, where we chatted about how I got into Open Source and the different projects that I now work on, and maintain. This chat was a lot of fun.

On tonights stream, we worked on building the running/previewing of the Chocolatey documentation site on GitHub Codespaces, to also running it locally in a container. We defined a .devcontainer folder to control how a container is created/run when running the site locally. This was made possible using the Remote Development extension: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscode-remote.vscode-remote-extensionpack as well as having Docker Desktop installed: https://www.docker.com/products/docker-desktop With both of these things in place, we can run the documentation site both on GitHub Codespaces, as well as locally on a machine, without having to installing the specific requirements for the site to build/preview. Very happy to say that this "just" worked, with very little effort.

This was released on community.chocolatey.org: https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/chocolatey/0.11.3

I presented a talk entitled: "Getting started with Open Source Software - a Beginners Guide" at the Hacktoberfest Scotland event. Information on this talk can be found here: https://github.com/gep13-talks/OssTalk

This pull request added to chef/chef to add ability to create authenticated sources with chocolatey_source resource

On tonights stream, we were working on some PR's that I have recently opened. This first is a PR into chocolatey/choco: https://github.com/chocolatey/choco/pull/2390 and the second is one into chef/chef: https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/12159 These were opened earlier, and I had received some feedback on them, so it was time to action this feedback, and get the PR's updated.

This was released to NuGet.org as: Cake: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Cake/1.3.0 Cake.Tool: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Cake.Tool/1.3.0 Cake.Frosting: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Cake.Frosting/1.3.0 And to community.chocolatey.org as: https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/cake.portable/1.3.0

Most likely, out of the box, tab completion (which is enabled via an addition to the Windows PowerShell profile) for Chocolatey won't be enabled. This was turned off for the reasons described in this GitHub issue: https://github.com/chocolatey/choco/issues/833 however, it is really simple to get up and running. In this short video, I step through what is needed to get it working. The is a video version of the documentation that you can find here: https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/troubleshooting#why-does-choco-intab-not-work-for-me

This is the sixth in a series of videos which aims to show how you can contribute to the Chocolatey documentation site, which can be found at https://docs.chocolatey.org. This video explains how you can use GitHub Codespaces to do all the editing of the site in the browser, including previewing the site before doing any commits. This site is hosted on GitHub Pages, and the source code can be found here: https://github.com/chocolatey/docs This is a static website, which is generated using Statiq: https://www.statiq.dev/

This is the fifth in a series of videos which aims to show how you can contribute to the Chocolatey documentation site, which can be found at https://docs.chocolatey.org. This video explains how you can clone the repository locally and setup your local development environment to be able to preview the site before committing changes. This site is hosted on GitHub Pages, and the source code can be found here: https://github.com/chocolatey/docs This is a static website, which is generated using Statiq: https://www.statiq.dev/

In this short video, I walk through the changes that have been included within the Chocolatey Agent 0.12.1 release. Full release notes can be found here: https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/agent/release-notes#september-14-2021

In this short video, I walk through the changes that have been included within the Chocolatey Agent 0.12.0 release. Full release notes can be found here: https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/agent/release-notes#september-2-2021

In this short video, I walk through the changes that have been included within the Chocolatey Central Management 0.6.0 release. Full release notes can be found here: https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/central-management/release-notes#august-3rd-2021

This is the fourth in a series of videos which aims to show how you can contribute to the Chocolatey documentation site, which can be found at https://docs.chocolatey.org. This video explains how you can make slightly more complicated changes in the site (including changes multiple files) using github.dev. This site is hosted on GitHub Pages, and the source code can be found here: https://github.com/chocolatey/docs This is a static website, which is generated using Statiq: https://www.statiq.dev/

This is the first in a series of videos which aims to show how you can contribute to the Chocolatey documentation site, which can be found at https://docs.chocolatey.org. This video goes over at a high level what the site is, and explains the content of this video series. This site is hosted on GitHub Pages, and the source code can be found here: https://github.com/chocolatey/docs This is a static website, which is generated using Statiq: https://www.statiq.dev/

This is the third in a series of videos which aims to show how you can contribute to the Chocolatey documentation site, which can be found at https://docs.chocolatey.org. This video explains how you can make small changes to the site directly in the GitHub UI. This site is hosted on GitHub Pages, and the source code can be found here: https://github.com/chocolatey/docs This is a static website, which is generated using Statiq: https://www.statiq.dev/

This is the second in a series of videos which aims to show how you can contribute to the Chocolatey documentation site, which can be found at https://docs.chocolatey.org. This video explains the structure of the GitHub repository, and how changes can be made. This site is hosted on GitHub Pages, and the source code can be found here: https://github.com/chocolatey/docs This is a static website, which is generated using Statiq: https://www.statiq.dev/

In this short video, I walk through the new features which have been added to the Chocolatey Licensed Extension, version 2.2.1. NOTE: These features are only available to Commercial Customers. Full release notes can be found here: https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/licensed-extension/release-notes#september-22-2021 If you find that there are any issues with this extension, then reach out to the support team. If you find that there are any other problems with Chocolatey CLI, then you can raise a issue here: https://github.com/chocolatey/choco/issues Or, feel free to ask a question in out Gitter Chat Room here: https://gitter.im/chocolatey/choco

In this short video, I walk through the new features which have been added to the Chocolatey Licensed Extension, version 2.2.0. NOTE: These features are only available to Commercial Customers. Full release notes can be found here: https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/licensed-extension/release-notes#september-2-2021 If you find that there are any issues with this extension, then reach out to the support team. If you find that there are any other problems with Chocolatey CLI, then you can raise a issue here: https://github.com/chocolatey/choco/issues Or, feel free to ask a question in out Gitter Chat Room here: https://gitter.im/chocolatey/choco

In this short video, I walk through the changes that have been included within the Chocolatey Central Management 0.6.1 release. Full release notes can be found here: https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/central-management/release-notes#august-5th-2021

In this short video, I walk through the changes that have been included within the Chocolatey Central Management 0.6.3 release. Full release notes can be found here: https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/central-management/release-notes#september-23rd-2021

In this short video, I walk through the changes that have been included within the Chocolatey Central Management 0.6.2 release. Full release notes can be found here: https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/central-management/release-notes#august-26th-2021

In this short video, I walk through of the bugs that have been fixed, or the new features and improvements that have been added, in the 0.19.0 release of Chocolatey GUI. Full release notes can be found here: https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/chocolatey-gui/release-notes#september-6-2021 The source code for this project can be found here: https://github.com/chocolatey/chocolateygui If you find that there are any other problems with Chocolatey GUI, then you can raise a issue here: https://github.com/chocolatey/chocolateygui/issues Or, feel free to ask a question in out Gitter Chat Room here: https://gitter.im/chocolatey/ChocolateyGUI

In this short video, I walk through of the bugs that have been fixed, or the new features and improvements that have been added, in the 0.18.2 release of Chocolatey GUI. Full release notes can be found here: https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/chocolatey-gui/release-notes#september-2-2021 The source code for this project can be found here: https://github.com/chocolatey/chocolateygui If you find that there are any other problems with Chocolatey GUI, then you can raise a issue here: https://github.com/chocolatey/chocolateygui/issues Or, feel free to ask a question in out Gitter Chat Room here: https://gitter.im/chocolatey/ChocolateyGUI

In this short video, I walk through the bugs that have been or, or the features that have been added to the Chocolatey CLI, version 0.11.2. Full release notes can be found here: https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/choco/release-notes#september-23rd-2021 If you find that there are any issues with this extension, then reach out to the support team. If you find that there are any other problems with Chocolatey CLI, then you can raise a issue here: https://github.com/chocolatey/choco/issues Or, feel free to ask a question in out Gitter Chat Room here: https://gitter.im/chocolatey/choco

In this short video, I walk through the bugs that have been or, or the features that have been added to the Chocolatey CLI, version 0.11.0. Full release notes can be found here: https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/choco/release-notes#september-2nd-2021-1 If you find that there are any issues with this extension, then reach out to the support team. If you find that there are any other problems with Chocolatey CLI, then you can raise a issue here: https://github.com/chocolatey/choco/issues Or, feel free to ask a question in out Gitter Chat Room here: https://gitter.im/chocolatey/choco

In this short video, I walk through the bugs that have been or, or the features that have been added to the Chocolatey CLI, version 0.11.1. Full release notes can be found here: https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/choco/release-notes#september-2nd-2021 If you find that there are any issues with this extension, then reach out to the support team. If you find that there are any other problems with Chocolatey CLI, then you can raise a issue here: https://github.com/chocolatey/choco/issues Or, feel free to ask a question in out Gitter Chat Room here: https://gitter.im/chocolatey/choco

In this short video, I walk through the new features which have been added to the Chocolatey GUI Licensed Extension, version 0.3.0. NOTE: These features are only available to Business Customers. Full release notes can be found here: https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/chocolatey-gui-licensed-extension/release-notes#september-6-2021 If you find that there are any issues with this extension, then reach out to the support team. If you find that there are any other problems with Chocolatey GUI, then you can raise a issue here: https://github.com/chocolatey/chocolateygui/issues Or, feel free to ask a question in out Gitter Chat Room here: https://gitter.im/chocolatey/ChocolateyGUI

Tonights stream was dedicated to reviewing various PR's across multiple projects, including: chocolatey/choco chocolatey/docs cake-contrib/Cake.AliaSql Lots of work to be done here, as I seem to have missed some notifications :-(

This was released on community.chocolatey.org: https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/chocolatey/0.11.2

On tonights stream, we worked on fixing a bug which has been reported in GitReleaseManager: https://github.com/GitTools/GitReleaseManager/issues/399 Once we got this fixed, we shipped a new version, 0.12.1: https://github.com/GitTools/GitReleaseManager/releases/tag/0.12.1 Which has been pushed out to NuGet, and Chocolatey.

This was released of NuGet.org here as: GitReleaseManager - https://www.nuget.org/packages/GitReleaseManager/0.12.1 GitReleaseManager.Tool - https://www.nuget.org/packages/GitReleaseManager.Tool/0.12.1 and to community.chocolatey.org here: https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/gitreleasemanager.portable/0.12.1

This was released on community.chocolatey.org: https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/ChocolateyGUI/0.19.0

This was released on community.chocolatey.org: https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/chocolatey/0.11.1

This was released on community.chocolatey.org: https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/ChocolateyGUI/0.18.2

This was released to the Visual Studio Marketplace here: Visual Studio 2022: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=vs-publisher-1392591.CakeforVisualStudio2022 Visual Studio 2019 and earlier: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=vs-publisher-1392591.CakeforVisualStudio

In the last stream, we shipped version 0.4.1 of the Cake Extension for Visual Studio, but we introduced a bug where the creation of new projects using the Project templates wouldn't work. On tonights stream, we spent some time figuring out exactly what was going on with this, and at the end of the stream we were able to ship version 0.4.2. On testing, happy to say that this is now working as expected! There is some follow up work required across all the Cake extension, namely Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, and Rider, to ensure that the project templates that are in place are consistent across all of them. This will likely be the focus of another series of streams.

This was released to NuGet.org as: Cake: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Cake/1.2.0 Cake.Tool: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Cake.Tool/1.2.0 Cake.Frosting: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Cake.Frosting/1.2.0 And to community.chocolatey.org as: https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/cake.portable/1.2.0

This was released to the Visual Studio Marketplace here: Visual Studio 2022: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=vs-publisher-1392591.CakeforVisualStudio2022 Visual Studio 2019 and earlier: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=vs-publisher-1392591.CakeforVisualStudio

This was released to the Visual Studio Marketplace here: Visual Studio 2022: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=vs-publisher-1392591.CakeforVisualStudio2022 Visual Studio 2019 and earlier: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=vs-publisher-1392591.CakeforVisualStudio

On tonights stream, we continued working on getting the Cake Extension for Visual Studio working on 2022. We were able to ship a new release of it, and we thought that things were working, but on further testing, we found that there was a slight problem when creating a project from the templates that we ship within the extension. This problem is due to a coupling that exists between the items with the template and the GUID that the extension itself ships with. Some further investigation will be required here, as we ran out of time on the stream.

On tonights stream, we continued from where we left off in the last stream, working on getting the Cake Extension for Visual Studio working in the new Visual Studio 2022. While we were able to get some things working, there are other parts that flat out not working. Most of the stream was spent looking into why the Cake menu structure within Visual Studio isn't working as expected. Still lots of work to be done here, but it does feel like we are getting somewhere :-)

On tonights stream we were working on updating the Cake Extension for Visual Studio to work in the new Visual Studio 2022. In order to get this to function, at the minute at least, you need to actually create two projects (so there are actually two extensions), and the recommendation is to use a shared project to contain the code that is shared between the two extension projects. The end result is that we had "something" working, meaning that things compiled and we were able to run the new extension within the Visual Studio 2022 Preview. Still lots of work to be done here, but made some solid progress in this stream.

The GitVersion project has gone through a number of iterations, and as a result, there are lots of broken links indexed on search engines like Google. As a result, I spent a bit of time going through existing links that are out there, to ensure that there are 301 redirects in place to take the user to the correct location in the newest documentation site.

In a change of pace from the last few streams, I decided to work on something different, something that has been on my todo list for a while now... updating the documentation for GitVersion. The current documentation site for GitVersion can be found here, however, it used to be hosted on https://readthedocs.org/. When we moved from there, we attempted to add some 301 redirects to the pages to direct folks to the new pages, however, we forgot a few things... The default branch in the git repository changed from master to main, which meant that the docs build wasn't working anymore. On top of this, the new Wyam site was recently changed, so that pages were moved, however, the RedirectFrom attribute wasn't added to the frontmatter of the pages to make a soft redirect to new location. On top of this, Google has some memory of the previous pages in readthedocs site, so we need to add additional redirect to ensure that these links go to the right place. We tackled all of these problems during the stream, and I believe we got a lot of things sorted out, but there is still some work to be done here. The end result of this stream was this pull request.

On tonights stream, we continued working on the GLAA website. This time, we looked at the ability to edit the metadata for an album (i.e. the name, description, date visited, etc). This means that we can now go back and edit an album if we find that something isn't quite right about the information. In order to allow this to work, we had to ensure that the markers.json file is updated with the potentially new long/lat information for an album. This ended up in a bit of duplicated code, that will need to be refactored, but from a purely functional point of view, the basic functionality of the site is now working, and can be populated with information about visits that have been made.

Continuing to work on the GLAA website, this time adding in some JavaScript to the page. This was to allow for the fetching of a markers.json file (populated with the lat/long details for the places that have been visited) to allow these markers to be displayed on a Google Maps widget. We initially thought that we might be able to embed this information directly into the Razor Page to retrieve from there, but it was actually simpler to fetch this data, enumerate it, and add it to the Google Maps widget. Now, on load of the main page, the markers.json file is fetched, and after a short animation, the contents of the markers.json file is shown on the map, and when you click on one of them, it takes you through to the album page with the photos. Real progress being made here!

After last weeks shambles of a stream, we were able to figure out a few of the issues during the week that was preventing the site from working when published to Azure App Service. Turns out that the version of node on the build machine was wrong, and as a result the TypeScript transpiling (which is included in the template application by default) doesn't work. However, we don't actually have any TypeScript in the project just now, so removing this portion of the "magic" from the template, made things start to work. With that part working, we started working on collecting some metadata about the albums that are being created, and storing this information in a data.json file within each album folder. This information can then be hydrated again, when browsing the album. This is a cheap version of a database for each album, but it also serves the purpose, so I don't think we will need anything much more complicated.

Well, this was an utter shambles :-) Tonight I started working on a new pet project to create a photo album website which would be used to collect family trips that have been taken, including lat/long information that can be plotted on a Google Maps widget. This idea came about, as my eldest child showed an interest in helping getting this up and running. So to get started, I took a look at this template from Mads Kristensen and the focus of tonights stream was meant to be around hooking up the bare template to an Azure Website, and to get it publishing there when a new commit is made to repository. This is where things started to go wrong... Wasn't able to get deployments working properly using Azure DevOps, so switched to using GitHub Actions. This got us further, but there seems to be a problem with my Azure Portal, where I don't have my own subscription, but rather am tied to Mattias's one (something that will have to be investigated off stream). Finally got things deploying, but the site itself isn't working, even though it runs locally. Tried to set up ApplicationInsights to get some clues as to what is going on, but that was a bit of a dead end as well. Think we were holding this wrong though! In the end, ended the stream a little deflated, as we didn't get anything working as I had hoped, but will try again next week!

I was renewed as a Microsoft MVP (for the 5th year) in Developer Technologies.

Well, this didn't quite go how I wanted it to, but hopefully the essence of what I was trying to achieve still comes across. I tried to have two cameras at the same time, one to show me, and the other to show the contents of the swag boxes that came in the post from GitHub. This didn't work, and ended up in all cameras stopping working, so that got abandoned quite quickly. I was able to get through the contents of the swag box though, which was truly amazing, and I am very grateful to the folks at GitHub for sending this through!

On tonights stream, we switched back to working on doing some housekeeping of the Cake Addins that I "own" including: Cake.Coveralls Cake.Gitter Cake.Twitter We worked through pulling in some dependabot PR's for these addins, as well as updating the icons and tags used by the addins, so that we could get some new releases pushed out. We were able to accomplish this for the first two addins above, but there was a failure on Cake.Twitter, so will need to go back and manually fix this. Getting these addins updated is likely to be the focus of the next few streams, as I work through getting all my addins updated to the latest standards.

This was released on NuGet.org here: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Cake.Gitter/1.1.0

This was released on NuGet.org here: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Cake.Twitter/1.1.0

This was released on NuGet.org here: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Cake.Coveralls/1.1.0

On tonights stream, we FINALLY shipped GitReleaseManager 0.12.0! The last release of GitReleaseManager was in March 2020, so it feels really good to finally ship this. There are some exciting new features in this release, including the ability to fully control how the release notes are generated vis Scriban templates. In order to ship this release, there were a few unit tests that we had to fix up, and work through to ensure that they all pass, but once that was done, we were able to push the button to release it! Full release notes can be found here: https://github.com/GitTools/GitReleaseManager/releases/tag/0.12.0 Created by GitReleaseManager of course! :-)

This was released of NuGet.org here as: GitReleaseManager - https://www.nuget.org/packages/GitReleaseManager/0.12.0 GitReleaseManager.Tool - https://www.nuget.org/packages/GitReleaseManager.Tool/0.12.0 and to community.chocolatey.org here: https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/gitreleasemanager.portable/0.12.0

On tonights stream, we went through and tested all the functionality of GitReleaseManager, to ensure that everything is working as expected. We ran into an issue with how the uploading of assets was working (we put this down to a change in how OctoKit works) and we had to make a minor code change to get this to start working again. We also took steps to document (on paper currently) all the steps that we went through to test GitReleaseManager. It would be great to get these fully automated, but the slight problem there is that we need to test against a "live" repository, and things have to be set up in a particular way to get some tests to work, so this isn't something that is really simple to do. For now, having things documented is a great first step, and if/when possible, these should be moved to automated tests. Happy to say that GitReleaseManager is now in a shippable state, and it should be possible to release 0.12.0.

Tonights stream was dedicated to debugging what is going on with GitReleaseManager. Last week we thought we got to a point where we could ship 0.12.0, however, when I went to release it, I noticed that there were some things that weren't working. For example, when attempting to create the release notes for 0.12.0 I noticed that it wasn't including the Breaking Changes issues, and also that we were missing mapping in AutoMapper and registrations in the IoC container, all of which meant that things weren't working. Of the 12 commands that GitReleaseManager has, we were able to at least partially exercise 10 of them, so there is still some work to be done before we can ship things. The remaining commands that need to be tested are uploadasset (which we found a problem with right at the end of the stream) and the publish command.

On tonights stream, we worked on GitReleaseManager, specifically the last thing that was on the milestone for shipping 0.12.0, which was to include the ability to allow the creation of an empty release. That means that you no longer have to have a milestone with issues assigned to it, or an input file with release notes contained within it, you can simply create an arbitrary draft release. We quickly attempted to merge a final dependabot PR in as well, but there are issues with GitVersion when running the build, so we weren't able to get that pulled in.

On tonights stream, we spent some more time working on GitReleaseManager, trying to close off the last remaining issues in the 0.12.0 milestone. Specifically tonight, we worked on collecting together all the errors that can occur when generating a set of release notes, and output them all at the same time, rather than only the first one. This makes it much easier to see all the problems, rather than getting one error, fixing it, and then get another error. This has been a long standing request, so it is great to finally get this added.

In this short video, I walk through the changes that have been included within the Chocolatey Central Management 0.5.0 release. Full release notes can be found here: https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/central-management/release-notes#march-25-2021

In this short video, I describe the AllowNonAdminAccessToSettings feature of Chocolatey GUI. This feature is documented on the website here: https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/chocolatey-gui/setup/configuration/features/allow-non-admin-access-to-settings

In this short video, I describe how to use the chocolateyguicli confg command within Chocolaty GUI. This ability is documented on the website here: https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/chocolatey-gui/commands/config

A short video showing the new features that have been released with version 0.3.1 of the Rider Extension for Cake. Full release notes can be found here: https://github.com/cake-build/cake-rider/releases/tag/0.3.1 Any questions, feel free to reach out by starting a discussion here: https://github.com/cake-build/cake/discussions Or on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/cakebuildnet The source code for this extension can be found here: https://github.com/cake-build/cake-rider If you have any ideas about how this extension can be improved, or if you have found any bugs with it, then please feel free to create an issue here: https://github.com/cake-build/cake-rider/issues

A short video showing the new features that have been released with version 0.3.0 of the Rider Extension for Cake. Full release notes can be found here: https://github.com/cake-build/cake-rider/releases/tag/0.3.0 Any questions, feel free to reach out by starting a discussion here: https://github.com/cake-build/cake/discussions Or on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/cakebuildnet The source code for this extension can be found here: https://github.com/cake-build/cake-rider If you have any ideas about how this extension can be improved, or if you have found any bugs with it, then please feel free to create an issue here: https://github.com/cake-build/cake-rider/issues

Chocolatey GUI passed a fairly significant milestone, where it has been downloaded over 1 million times. This blog post walks through the history of the project. Where it came from, and how it has evolved.

Tonight we worked on GitReleaseManager and got a new GitHub Actions build up and running (Windows only for the minute). There is an issue running ApprovalTests on Linux and Mac, may need to reach out to Simon Cropp about this. After that, we switched over to work on an issue to add a new option to the export command to skip the export of pre-release releases when exporting all release notes. We finished the evening by having a look at the VSCode extension for GitHub Pull Requests and Issues to see what it can do. It looks like a really useful extension

In this short video, I walk through the new features and improvements in the 0.18.1 release of Chocolatey GUI. Full release notes can be found here: https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/chocolatey-gui/release-notes#march-29-2021 The source code for this project can be found here: https://github.com/chocolatey/chocolateygui If you find that there are any other problems with Chocolatey GUI, then you can raise a issue here: https://github.com/chocolatey/chocolateygui/issues Or, feel free to ask a question in out Gitter Chat Room here: https://gitter.im/chocolatey/ChocolateyGUI

In this short video, I walk through the new features which have been added to the Chocolatey GUI Licensed Extension, version 0.2.1. NOTE: These features are only available to Business Customers. Full release notes can be found here: https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/chocolatey-gui-licensed-extension/release-notes#march-29-2021 If you find that there are any issues with this extension, then reach out to the support team. If you find that there are any other problems with Chocolatey GUI, then you can raise a issue here: https://github.com/chocolatey/chocolateygui/issues Or, feel free to ask a question in out Gitter Chat Room here: https://gitter.im/chocolatey/ChocolateyGUI

This was released on community.chocolatey.org: https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/ChocolateyGUI/0.18.1

In this short video, I walk through the changes that have been included within the Chocolatey Central Management 0.5.0 release. Full release notes can be found here: https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/central-management/release-notes#march-25-2021

In this short video, I look at the new functionality that has just been added to NuGet Gallery, where a new Cake tab is available explaining how you can reference the package from within a Cake Script. This functionality was added via a number of PR's into the NuGet Gallery, and these can be found here: https://github.com/NuGet/NuGetGallery/pull/8434 https://github.com/NuGet/NuGetGallery/pull/8440 https://github.com/NuGet/NuGetGallery/pull/8433 Huge thanks to Nils and Augusto for working on this, and to the entire NuGet Team for agreeing to merge this in!

In this short video, I describe how to edit a source using Chocolaty GUI. This feature is documented on the website here: https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/chocolatey-gui/user-interface/settings/sources/edit

In this short video, I describe how to add a source using Chocolaty GUI. This feature is documented on the website here: https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/chocolatey-gui/user-interface/settings/sources/add

In this short video, I describe the OutdatedPackagesCacheDurationInMinutes feature of Chocolatey GUI. This feature is documented on the website here: https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/chocolatey-gui/setup/configuration/settings/outdated-packages-cache-duration-in-minutes

In this short video, I describe the ShowConsoleOutput feature of Chocolatey GUI. This feature is documented on the website here: https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/chocolatey-gui/setup/configuration/features/show-console-output

In this short video, I describe the DefaultToTileViewForLocalSource feature of Chocolatey GUI. This feature is documented on the website here: https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/chocolatey-gui/setup/configuration/features/default-to-tile-view-for-local-source

In this short video, I describe the DefaultToTileViewForRemoteSource feature of Chocolatey GUI. This feature is documented on the website here: https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/chocolatey-gui/setup/configuration/features/default-to-tile-view-for-remote-source

In this short video, I describe the UseDelayedSearch feature of Chocolatey GUI. This feature is documented on the website here: https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/chocolatey-gui/setup/configuration/features/use-delayed-search

In this short video, I describe the PreventPreload feature which is a new setting in version 0.18.0 of Chocolatey GUI. This feature is documented on the website here: https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/chocolatey-gui/setup/configuration/features/prevent-preload

In this short video, I describe the PreventAllPackageIconDownloads feature which is a new setting in version 0.18.0 of Chocolatey GUI. This feature is documented on the website here: https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/chocolatey-gui/setup/configuration/features/prevent-all-package-icon-downloads

In this short video, I describe the PreventAutomatedOutdatedPackagesCheck feature of Chocolatey GUI. This feature is documented on the website here: https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/chocolatey-gui/setup/configuration/features/prevent-automated-outdated-packages-check

In this short video, I describe the ShowAdditionalPackageInformation feature of Chocolatey GUI. This feature is documented on the website here: https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/chocolatey-gui/setup/configuration/features/show-additional-package-information

In this short video, I describe the UseKeyboardBindings feature of Chocolatey GUI. This feature is documented on the website here: https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/chocolatey-gui/setup/configuration/features/use-keyboard-bindings

In this short video, I describe the HidePackageDownloadCount of Chocolatey GUI. This feature is documented on the website here: https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/chocolatey-gui/setup/configuration/features/hide-package-download-count

In this short video, I describe the HideAllRemoteChocolateySources feature which is a new setting in version 0.18.0 of Chocolatey GUI. This feature is documented on the website here: https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/chocolatey-gui/setup/configuration/features/hide-all-remote-chocolatey-sources

In this short video, I describe how to use the chocolateyguicli purge command within Chocolaty GUI. This ability is documented on the website here: https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/chocolatey-gui/commands/purge

In this short video, I describe how to use the chocolateyguicli feature command within Chocolaty GUI. This ability is documented on the website here: https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/chocolatey-gui/commands/feature

In this short video, I describe how to remove a source using Chocolaty GUI. This feature is documented on the website here: https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/chocolatey-gui/user-interface/settings/sources/delete

In this short video, I describe the DefaultSourceName feature which is a new setting in version 0.18.0 of Chocolatey GUI. This feature is documented on the website here: https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/chocolatey-gui/setup/configuration/settings/default-source-name

In this short video, I describe the ExcludeInstalledPackages feature Chocolatey GUI. This feature is documented on the website here: https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/chocolatey-gui/setup/configuration/features/exclude-installed-packages

In this short video, I describe the ShowAggregatedSourceView feature of Chocolatey GUI. This feature is documented on the website here: https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/chocolatey-gui/setup/configuration/features/show-aggregated-source-view

On tonights stream, we continued where we left off last week and reviewed some remaining PR's into the Cake.Recipe project, and from there, we decided to switch to working on the GitReleaseManager project. There have been a number of great additions to that project, and it would be great to be able to get to a point where we can ship a new release. There were lots of dependabot PR's sitting waiting for review/merge, so we worked on doing some of those, and discussing what we need to do going forward.

In this short video, I describe the DefaultToDarkMode feature which is a new setting in version 0.18.0 of Chocolatey GUI. This feature is documented on the website here: https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/chocolatey-gui/setup/configuration/features/default-to-dark-mode

In this short video, I walk through the new features and improvements in the 0.18.0 release of Chocolatey GUI. Full release notes can be found here: https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/chocolatey-gui/release-notes#march-9-2021 The source code for this project can be found here: https://github.com/chocolatey/chocolateygui If you find that there are any other problems with Chocolatey GUI, then you can raise a issue here: https://github.com/chocolatey/chocolateygui/issues Or, feel free to ask a question in out Gitter Chat Room here: https://gitter.im/chocolatey/ChocolateyGUI

In this short video, I walk through the new features which have been added to the Chocolatey GUI Licensed Extension, version 0.2.0. NOTE: These features are only available to Business Customers. Full release notes can be found here: https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/chocolatey-gui-licensed-extension/release-notes#march-9-2021 If you find that there are any issues with this extension, then reach out to the support team. If you find that there are any other problems with Chocolatey GUI, then you can raise a issue here: https://github.com/chocolatey/chocolateygui/issues Or, feel free to ask a question in out Gitter Chat Room here: https://gitter.im/chocolatey/ChocolateyGUI

This was released on NuGet.org here: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Cake.Gitter/1.0.2

This was released on NuGet.org here: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Cake.Coveralls/1.0.1

This was released on NuGet.org here: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Cake.Figlet/2.0.1

This was released on NuGet.org here: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Cake.AppVeyor/5.0.1

Tonight we picked up where we left off last week, and fixed the remaining issues on the Cake.Recipe 2.2.1 milestone, and we were able to ship a new release. With that done, we set about starting the upgrade process to get Cake.Recipe running with 1.1.0 of Cake. There was an open PR from AddinDiscoverer that updated most of the dependencies to this end, however, there was a breaking change in Cake which meant that part of the Cake.Recipe script had to be re-worked. This was the part of the script that worked on getting the Cake Arguments that had been passed in. With the switch to using Spectre.Console, this had changed. There is an open issue on Cake which would provide what is required, but for now, we have to work with reflection to get at the information that we want.

This was released to NuGet.org here: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Cake.Recipe/2.2.1

This was released on community.chocolatey.org: https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/ChocolateyGUI/0.18.0

After taking a night off last week, we were back to normal streaming tonight. Didn't have anything specifically planned for tonight, so just thought we would see where we end up. We ended up shipping a new bug fix release of Cake.Bakery to try to fix an issue that was reported. After that, we reviewed and discussed a PR into GitReleaseManager for removing the file header from all code files. We discussed that we might need to go back and review this change to add some form of file header back in, but for now, this change makes sense. We also worked on some bug fixes for Cake.Recipe in preparation for a bug fix release to address a number of issues that have popped up while trying to use Cake.Recipe running on GitHub Actions. Throughout the evening we also discussed topics for upcoming streams, and tried to start prioritising what we will be working on going forward.

This was released to both NuGet: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Cake.Bakery/0.6.2 and Chocolatey: https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/cake-bakery.portable/0.6.2

This was released to both NuGet: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Cake.Bakery/0.6.1 and Chocolatey: https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/cake-bakery.portable/0.6.1

This was released to both NuGet: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Cake.Bakery/0.6.0 and Chocolatey: https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/cake-bakery.portable/0.6.0

This was released to NuGet.org as: Cake: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Cake/1.1.0 Cake.Tool: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Cake.Tool/1.1.0 Cake.Frosting: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Cake.Frosting/1.1.0 And to community.chocolatey.org as: https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/cake.portable/1.2.0

This was released on NuGet.org here: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Cake.Gitter/1.0.1

Over the course of the last few streams, we have been focusing on the new 2.2.0 release of Cake.Recipe. This consisted of ensuring that Cake.Recipe could be used to do a complete publish of a Cake addin when running on AppVeyor, GitHub Actions and Azure Pipelines. With that work completed, it is time to start putting this new release into action, and on the stream tonight we made use of it to ship bug fix release of Cake.DotNetTool.Module and Cake.Gitter, as well as new release of Cake.Figlet and Cake.AppVeyor (both of which are now compiled against Cake 1.0.0). Had a lot of fun on tonights stream, and it feels like it was very productive!

This was released on NuGet.org here: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Cake.AppVeyor/5.0.0

This was released on NuGet.org here: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Cake.Figlet/2.0.0

This was released on NuGet.org here: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Cake.DotNetTool.Module/1.0.1

This was released on NuGet.org here: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Cake.AppVeyor/4.1.0

This was released on NuGet.org here: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Cake.Figlet/1.4.0

This was released on NuGet.org here: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Cake.Gitter/1.0.0

This was released on NuGet.org here: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Cake.Gitter/0.12.0

This was released on NuGet.org here: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Cake.Twitter/1.0.0

This was released on NuGet.org here: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Cake.Twitter/0.11.0

This was released on NuGet.org here: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Cake.Coveralls/1.0.0

This was released on NuGet.org here: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Cake.Coveralls/0.11.0

This was released on NuGet.org here: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Cake.DotNetTool.Module/0.5.0

This was released on NuGet.org here: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Cake.DotNetTool.Module/1.0.0

This was released on NuGet.org here: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Cake.DotNetVersionDetector/1.0.0

This was released to NuGet.org here: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Cake.Recipe/2.2.0

This was released on NuGet.org here: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Cake.DotNetVersionDetector/0.3.1

This was released on NuGet.org here: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Cake.DotNetVersionDetector/0.3.0

Building on the work from the last couple streams, the focus of tonight was to publish a Cake Addin completely, using Azure Pipelines. The addin in question was Cake.DotNetVersionDetector. We very nearly got to a point where we were able to complete the publishing of the addin. We ran into a small bug in Cake.Recipe in how it names the branches in its Azure Pipelines provider, but that should be a small change, which would allow the publishing of Cake.Recipe, ready for use in other addins. In addition, we found that there was a need for some additional documentation on the Cake.Recipe site, in order to make it clear how to use Cake.Recipe on Azure Pipelines.

This was released on NuGet.org here: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Cake.StrongNameSigner/0.2.0

The intention of tonights stream was to use the newly released version of GitVersion to publish the 0.2.0 release of Cake.StrongNameSigner on GitHub Actions, and to then move onto publishing another Cake Addin on Azure DevOps. Unfortunately, that didn't quite happen :-( We found that when we tried to use the latest version of GitVersion to do the publishing of the addin, that it still wasn't working correctly. It was still asserting the wrong version number. The rest of the stream was spent trying to figure out why it wasn't working. We attempted to add additional logging to try to figure out where the GitVersion execution was getting to, but that also didn't seem to work. The whole stream was a little frustrating.

This was released to NuGet.org as: Cake: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Cake/1.0.0 Cake.Tool: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Cake.Tool/1.0.0 Cake.Frosting: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Cake.Frosting/1.0.0 And to community.chocolatey.org as: https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/cake.portable/1.0.0

At the Scottish Developers User Group event, I presented a talk entitled: "A Piece of Cake - C# Powered Cross-platform Build Automation" which was about: In this session we will start with a standard .NET Solution and incrementally add a build and orchestration script to compile the application, run unit tests, perform static analysis, package the application, and more, with the C# skills that you already have, using the Cake Build Automation System. You can find more information about this here: https://github.com/gep13-talks/BiteSizeCakeDemos

In this short video, I walk through the bug which have been addressed in the 0.17.3 release of Chocolatey GUI. Full release notes can be found here: https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/chocolatey-gui/release-notes#february-1-2021 The source code for this project can be found here: https://github.com/chocolatey/chocolateygui If you find that there are any other problems with Chocolatey GUI, then you can raise a issue here: https://github.com/chocolatey/chocolateygui/issues Or, feel free to ask a question in out Gitter Chat Room here: https://gitter.im/chocolatey/ChocolateyGUI

On tonights stream we spent some time investigating why GitVersion fails to assert the correct semantic version number when building a tag on GitHub Actions. We were able to replicate this issue running locally on my machine by cloning the repository in the exact same way as GitHub Actions does, and setting the environment variables that GitHub actions uses. Using this setup, we were able to run GitVersion whilst debugging in Visual Studio, and to figure out that there was a slight issue in how GitVersion was asserting the version number. After making a small modification to the code base, we were able to get the correct version number asserted, with all the remaining unit tests passing. We created a Pull Request for this change, but we also need to create a unit test for this case, to make sure that there are no regressions. We didn't have time to create the unit test on the stream, but will attempt to do this during the week, and get the PR updated.

This was released on community.chocolatey.org: https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/ChocolateyGUI/0.17.3

When running on a CI system, like GitHub Actions, when building a tagged commit, rather than asserting something like 0.2.0, which is expected, GitVersion asserts a version number like 0.3.0-tags-0-2-0-0001. An example of this can be seen here: https://github.com/cake-contrib/Cake.StrongNameSigner/runs/1779759425?check_suite_focus=true#step:5:217 A fix has been made to the code to only increment the semantic version number when on a tagged commit, if the current sha of the repository is different to the sha of the tagged semantic version.

This was released to NuGet.org as: Cake: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Cake/1.0.0-rc0003 Cake.Tool: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Cake.Tool/1.0.0-rc0003 Cake.Frosting: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Cake.Frosting/1.0.0-rc0003 And to community.chocolatey.org as: https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/cake.portable/1.0.0-rc0003

In this short video, I walk through the new Chocolatey GUI Licensed Extension, version 0.1.0. This extension provides Chocolatey GUI with commercial features. NOTE: These features are only available to Business Customers. Full release notes can be found here: https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/chocolatey-gui-licensed-extension/release-notes If you find that there are any issues with this extension, then reach out to the support team. If you find that there are any other problems with Chocolatey GUI, then you can raise a issue here: https://github.com/chocolatey/chocolateygui/issues Or, feel free to ask a question in out Gitter Chat Room here: https://gitter.im/chocolatey/ChocolateyGUI

On tonights stream, we started the process of updating the Cake.StrongNameSigner addin. There isn't anything currently "wrong" with this addin, however it is currently still using Cake.Recipe 1.0.0, and if updated, can taken advantage of things like enabling deterministic builds, etc. In addition, the thought process is to use this addin as an example of how to fully execute Cake.Recipe on GitHub Actions as the primary CI system, rather than AppVeyor. We got most things completed, adding issues to track everything that was changed, so that they can be used as a reminder for what needs to be done in other addins, but we didn't quite get to the point of releasing the new version. Hopefully, this will be completed during this week.

A short video showing the new features that have been released with version 0.2.0 of the Rider Extension for Cake. Full release notes can be found here: https://github.com/cake-build/cake-rider/releases/tag/0.2.0 Any questions, feel free to reach out by starting a discussion here: https://github.com/cake-build/cake/discussions Or on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/cakebuildnet The source code for this extension can be found here: https://github.com/cake-build/cake-rider If you have any ideas about how this extension can be improved, or if you have found any bugs with it, then please feel free to create an issue here: https://github.com/cake-build/cake-rider/issues

Following on from the work that we did last week, on tonights stream we continued working on the Magic Chunks library. There was one remaining issue on the 2.1.0 milestone, which was to include XML documentation into the NuGet package. This sounded like it should be really easy, however, it turned out there was a bit more work than expected. It turned out that there were some additional changes required to make things work on the different .NetStandard versions in the NuGet package, and to make sure that everything was copied to the correct location, ready for packaging. We worked our way through this though, and in the end, everything seems to be working as expected. Going to be reaching out to Sergey this week, to see what the process for shipping a release is, and going to try to ship 2.1.0.

A short video showing the new features that have been released with version 0.1.0 of the Rider Extension for Cake. Full release notes can be found here: https://github.com/cake-build/cake-rider/releases/tag/0.1.0 Any questions, feel free to reach out by starting a discussion here: https://github.com/cake-build/cake/discussions Or on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/cakebuildnet The source code for this extension can be found here: https://github.com/cake-build/cake-rider If you have any ideas about how this extension can be improved, or if you have found any bugs with it, then please feel free to create an issue here: https://github.com/cake-build/cake-rider/issues

On tonights stream, we started working on a new project for our Monday evenings. I have been a long time user of the Magic Chunks library, which makes it super easy to update JSON, YAML, and XML files, using a consist API. There is also a Cake Addin for this library, which is one of the reasons that I started using it. Over the years, this library has been a little neglected, so I reached out to the maintainer Sergey to see if he wanted some help to maintain it. He replied to say yes, and as a result, created a new Organisation so that I (as well as Pascal) could be added as collaborators. We started working on some of the issues which had been assigned to the next milestone, which was mostly around updating some of the project files, getting things ready for shipping the release.

On tonights stream, we worked on a bug which had been raised on Cake.Recipe where when running on GitHub Actions, no messages are sent to Twitter/Gitter when a release happens. We spent a little bit of time investigating the different environment variables that are populated when running on GitHub Actions, both for a "normal" build, and then a tagged build. We confirmed that these variables are different depending on the type of build is being run, and as a result, Cake.Recipe isn't able to establish the branch name associated with the build. This is important, since the branch name is required in order to assert whether notifications to Twitter/Gitter are sent. Once establishing that this was the case, we set about executing git directly to retrieve the branch name. After a few stumbles, we were able to get this to work how we wanted, although there is a requirement that the checkout GitHub Action along with running the unshallow command, to ensure that all branches are pulled into the clone of the repository on the GitHub Actions build runner. With it confirmed as working, we committed this into the repository, and closed the issue. All in all, a successful stream!

I presented a talk entitled: "Control your GitHub Releases with GitVersion and GitReleaseManager" at the Hacktoberfest Scotland event. Information on this talk can be found here: https://github.com/gep13-talks/GitHubReleaseDemos

I am the primary maintainer of the Chocolatey GUI project: https://github.com/chocolatey/chocolateygui Which is a GUI wrapper around the Chocolatey Package Manager. This project is getting close to 1 million downloads: https://chocolatey.org/packages/ChocolateyGUI

On Stack Overflow I try to answer all questions related to Cake, Chocolatey and GitVersion, which are some of the projects that I work on. In 2020, I am currently within the top 2% of users on the site (obviously not as high as Jon Skeet :-) )

I am the maintainer of the Cake.Recipe project, which is an opinionated set of build scripts for Cake. This system is used as the primary mechanism for building the Cake Addins that exist within the Cake-Contrib Organisation on GitHub: https://github.com/cake-contrib Collectively, Cake-Contrib Addins have been downloaded over 26 million times: https://www.nuget.org/profiles/cake-contrib While Cake.Recipe isn't used for all of these addins, it is used for the majority of them

Once released, all the Open Source work that I do is made into release videos, which are published to my YouTube channel. In addition, all live streams are made available there for playback. I also have some series of videos on getting started with Chocolatey, as well as some general tutorial videos.

I am the primary maintainer of the GitReleaseManager project, which is a tool to help with the creation of release notes for your Open Source projects. Across it's different versions, this application has been downloaded over 200000 times. https://www.nuget.org/packages/gitreleasemanager/ https://www.nuget.org/packages/GitReleaseManager.Tool/ https://chocolatey.org/packages/gitreleasemanager.portable

I am one of the core contributors to the Cake project: https://github.com/cake-build/cake In 2020 we have shipped 8 releases of Cake, and we are currently getting ready to ship the 1.0.0 release. Across it different platforms, Cake has almost 10 million downloads: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Cake/ https://www.nuget.org/packages/Cake.Tool/ https://chocolatey.org/packages/cake.portable There is an eco-system of different components to Cake that I also help to maintain including: Cake.Bakery - https://github.com/cake-build/bakery VSCode Extension - https://github.com/cake-build/cake-vscode Visual Studio Extension - https://github.com/cake-build/cake-vs Cake Azure DevOps - https://github.com/cake-build/cake-vso

Every Monday evening (in the UK) I stream live on Twitch. The topic depends on what I am currently working on, but I have covered things like getting started creating a Cake Addin, showcasing other folks OSS work, and most recently digging into using Codespaces. I currently have 347 followers on Twitch.

In 2017, I was awarded a Microsoft MVP Award in Developer Technoloiges.

I am the founding member of the Aberdeen Developers .Net User Group. We haven't had any meetings during the COVID pandemic, but we do have plans to get started again once things get back to normal.