Custom DDNS update script on ASUS router with merlin firmware

This post is a bit different than others, but it might save some of you some time. Lately, my ISP upgraded my network connection and forced me to use new cable modem which turns out to be multifunction modem and router. Unfortunately, it turns out that it had buggy firmware and was unable to work in bridge mode. It was very shitty device, so I would like to use my own ASUS router.

DevDay 2013

I could not miss DevDay this year, mainly because of Jon Skeet. Master of answers on StackOverflow came to Cracow.

Running Selenium WebDriver UI tests from TeamCity

Task is fairly simple but require one tweak.

When you run TeamCity agent as service, you need to allow interaction with user desktop. Keith Dahlby created nice solution to enable this feature for service working under any account which is not Local System.

After this tweak, works like a charm!

Executing scripts remotely from TeamCity using PowerShell

The problem I had to solve seems to be pretty simple on the beginning. Execute couple of deployment scripts on remote Windows 2008 R2 box, to perform deployment of web applications using with custom package manager used in our project.

Let's begin....

Finally I have decided to start blog. I will be describing here all interesting problems ( and hopefully solutions ) which I'm fighting with during my day to day work. Let's see if this will work...