Best PlayStation (PS1) video games

Best PlayStation (PS1) video games

The first version of the Sony PlayStation console, also known as PSX or PS1, has been a game changer in the video game industry and remains an icon for a generation of gamers.

It has been launched all around the world between 1994 and 1995 and have seen one of the best video games ever made.

Here is my personal list of best video games I played on my PS1.

Run GitLab pipelines on Windows Server

Run GitLab pipelines on Windows Server

Most of today’s automation is done on Linux systems but you may still have some code in Production that can only run on Windows. So how do you automate its lifecycle with a tool like GitLab?

In this article, we’ll use some .NET Framework 4.x code and a Windows Virtual Machine (VM) to demonstrate how we can create a pipeline in GitLab to achieve Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery!

Mock REST API calls with Mockoon

Mock REST API calls with Mockoon

Did you ever wish you could mock REST API calls? This post will quickly introduce Mockoon, a free open source solution, to maybe help others in the righteous path of software design and test automation! Have you already been blocked in your test automation by HTTP calls? Are you interested in developing a frontend application even if the backend is not available? This is a limitation I often come across but I never found the right way to do it,…

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Ansible and private networks

Ansible and private networks

Ansible is an efficient tool to automate an infrastructure. No need for an agent to be installed on every system, it only needs SSH. But… What happens if some part of the infrastructure is not directly accessible from the machine running Ansible? This article will present you a simple solution and hopefully prevent you from spending hours on it! Diagram Here is an example of infrastructure we need to manage by running Ansible scripts only from server A (a GitLab…

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Azure Build Pipelines ProTip #1 – Customize git checkout

Azure Build Pipelines ProTip #1 – Customize git checkout

This is a quick post on how to get control over git checkout in Azure DevOps. In Azure DevOps (Microsoft ALM solution), Azure Build Pipelines are always defined from a git repository that can come from different type of hosting system (Azure Repo, GitHub, BitBucket, etc.). By default, an Azure Build Pipeline will always do a checkout of the code source. This is usually fine in most of cases but in some of them you may want to have control…

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