Mount a Windows NTFS Disk in Linux

Almost all of the Windows OS disks use NTFS as a filesystem. It has been there since long time. However it is proprietary to Microsoft and is therefore not open sourced. By default, you’ll not be able to mount NTFS disk in the linux distributions like CentOS, RHEL etc. However it is possible to install a driver that allows us to do this so that we can read and write data to an NTFS disk.

In this blog post, we’ll see how to do the same. For the demo purpose we’ll be mounting a NTFS disk, inside CentOS.
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Install Jenkins in offline mode on CentOS / RHEL

There are times when you would need to do an offline installation of the Jenkins. This may be to meet certain requirements of the workplace that you are operating in. I came across this issue some time back and internet is woefully out of articles for proper steps on this one. In this blog post, we’ll learn how to do an offline installation of Jenkins.

Install OpenJDK Java

First, we need to check what version of java is installed on the machine using:
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Personalize Git Configuration for Better Productivity

In one of the previous posts at here, we discussed how we can use git aliases to improve the git experience. However, the personalization is not limited to setup of few command aliases. In this post, we’ll discuss how we can modify git configuration for better productivity and experience further. You will mostly need to do these changes per machine only once and they’ll stick around between upgrades. However, you can modify them later at any point, in case you want to.
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Write Advanced functions in PowerShell using various Write Cmdlets

PowerShell has become de-facto tool of choice for automation in Microsoft world from long time and slowly it is winning over hearts of the Linux administrators as well. Just like with other programming languages, there are many ways to do the same thing in PowerShell. However they differ in little subtle ways. You may or may not notice them in your day to day usage, but if you learn those subtleties, you can quickly improve the performance and results of your automation. This blog post is about one of the such cases only.
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Checkout only selected Paths from Git Repository

In some organizations, its a common practice to put everything related to one project in one single git repository. Over the time, as the project goes on, more and more files keep getting added and it may reach a large size over the time. In such a case, you would like to check only a particular path, so that you can reduce the checkout time. It also make sense to checkout only selected paths, when you are running a continuous integration build, so that you can reduce overall build time. Even though git is very fast, but small improvements can really add up to be significant.
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