There’s an on-going spam problem in Jenkins wiki. We have capture, but either that was broken, or more likely, spamming is done manually.
In São Paulo from this weekend
I’ll be flying to Sao Paulo this week to attend Jenkins meet-up (Saturday) and JavaOne Latin America (next Tuesday and onward).
POTD: submit a patch to Jenkins, and let him test it for you
Here’s my 2nd after-JavaOne “project of the day” Jenkins plugin. This has been in the back of my mind for quite some time, but it took this gentleman to grill...
POTD: iOS device connector plugin (cont’d)
Today, I wrapped up the project I started Friday and released iOS device connector plugin.
POTD: iOS device detection in Jenkins
I was talking to my colleague Mark Prichard about mobile development with Jenkins, and I came up with this idea.
Internet Explorer only takes string in HTML5 postMessage
Today I learned the hard way that our beloved Internet Explorer doesn’t handle HTML5 cross-domain messaging functionality (AKA postMessage) correctly.
Jenkins Git Server Plugin
Jenkins Git Server plugin is a so-called “library plugin”, which doesn’t offer any user-visible feature by itself, but instead enables other plugins to do something easily inside Jenkins. In case...
Meetup “Automated testing & continuous deployment for mobile apps” tomorrow
Mark Prichard from CloudBees, myself, and Matt Solnit from SOASTA will deliver a joint talk Thursday evening at Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group.
Jenkins User Conference Israel
I’ll be visiting Israel this week, for Jenkins User Conference in Herzliya. I think this is my 3rd time visiting there, and I always enjoyed my visit and people over...
POTD: Confluence static cache generator plugin
I’m not sure about your Confluence, but my Confluence was dog slow. Page rendering regularly took a second or two, or even worse. That’s why I wrote this plugin.
Jenkins User Conference New York: my take
In one of those days, I’ll get a small enough computer whose battery won’t die in 45 minutes, but until then, my apologies for the belated Jenkins User Conference travel...
Push changes directly into BuildHive, and never run tests again!
On top of pull requests auto-build, BuildHive now allows you to push changes directly in via ssh. I call this feature “validated merge”.
Jenkins Pry Plugin
I released Jenkins Pry plugin 1.1 today. This plugin adds the “pry” command to Jenkins CLI so that you can use pry to introspect a running Jenkins instance via pry....
POTD: Groovy Sandbox
I posted the other day about Groovy’s SecureASTCustomizer and how it is harmful. In the end of that post, I suggested that doing the check dynamically would work better.
COM4J updates
It’s been a while, but I’ve posted a new version of COM4J. COM4J is a library that lets you talk to Windows COM components. Unlike similar libraries lika jacob, which...
The Butler’s Service: Promotion for Jenkins User Conference in Paris
We have just increased our enrollment capacity for the Jenkins User Conference (JUC) Paris, to be held on April 17th. The enthusiastic response to our first-ever Paris JUC has been...
Debian and Maven, a crash of culture
Tim O’Brien posted his frustration about the state of Java packaging in Debian. While I’m not affiliated with Debian nor Ubuntu, I wanted to post something in defense.
Come join us on “Selenium, Jenkins, Robots, Oh My!” tomorrow
I’ll be speaking tomorrow at San Francisco Selenium Meetup about Jenkins & Selenium — mainly recent improvements in the Selenium plugin, as well as several other new plugins relevant in...
Attaching files to JUnit tests
Despite the fact that it is the de-facto standard of test reports in any programming languages (perhaps except .NET), JUnit test report format has a number of problems. One is...
POTD: Package renamed ASM
Today’s project of the day is a package renamed ASM library.
POTD: checking package name for Windows reserved words
Today’s project of the day is a little tool that checks problems in your package names that can bite you on Windows.
Jenkins User Conferences 2012
As a result of the success of the Jenkins User Conference last year in San Francisco, this year CloudBees and other sponsors are planning 4 Jenkins User Conferences around the...
This week in Tokyo
I’m back to Tokyo this and next week, doing all sorts of Jenkins related (and other CloudBees related) activities.
@Override and interface
Jim Leary, my colleague at CloudBees, got me into digging into this.
Writing programs that drive Jenkins
One of the interesting discussions during SCALE 10x was about using Jenkins as a piece of a bigger software. This person was interested in using Jenkins to run some business...