Pre-ride
2021 in review: Cycling
I started riding in 2020 May but it was 2021 that I got really into it. In 2020 I used to ride about 35 miles / 50km a week, which...
Honda Gorilla 1:12
According to my wife, her late father used to drive this bike for commute in Tokyo. He was a chubby man, this is a tiny bike, so I try to...
Biking for 1000km
I’ve been riding a bicycle around my home for the past several months, and yesterday the cumulative total distance went past 1000km. That’s about going from San Jose to Portland,...
Trail of Coincidence
A guest was coming to our office over lunch, so food was ordered for everyone. Except it turned out that due to a miscommunication, mine wasn’t there. No problem, I...
Camping in Livermore
In the Saturday Japanese school my daughter goes to, there are 4-5 families that mine has been particularly close to. With some families relocating and what not, faces have slowly...
Support API freedom
I was reading this article from Steve and Sacha about the API copyrightability, and found myself in a violent agreement. If you haven’t read it, I highly recommend it.
JavaFX needs to be a new edition of Java
Lately, there has been a number of security vulnerabilities reported in Java. The latest one is reported just after a few days of JavaSE 7u11, which by itself a response...
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 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...
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...
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.
POTD: Package renamed ASM
Today’s project of the day is a package renamed ASM library.
@Override and interface
Jim Leary, my colleague at CloudBees, got me into digging into this.
DNS outage with jenkins-ci.org
As Tyler summarized it in this e-mail thread, currently there’s an DNS outage going on with jenkins-ci.org that makes all name resolutions fail.
Quiz answer: memory leak in Java
I posted a little quiz yesterday, and here is the answer.
Quiz time: memory leak in Java
Today I had an interesting debugging exercise, and I felt like I learned a new lesson that’s worth sharing with the rest of the world.
Ken Cavanaugh had passed away
I’ve just learned that Ken Cavanaugh had passed away. He was my colleague back in Sun, and we had worked on a few small projects together.
My epic battle with findbugs-maven-plugin and how I utterly lost
It started quite innoucently. I was looking at this thread in Jenkins dev list and thought it’d be a good idea to get some critical findbugs errors to fail a...
Upcoming Webinar “Mastering Jenkins Security”
I’ll be doing another Jenkins webinar titled “Mastering Jenkins Security” in the next Thursday 10am Pacific Time. It’s a free event, so please register.
Bye bye Hudson, Hello Jenkins
(This post was originally made under an incorrect location, so I’m moving it here. The contents haven’t changed since its original post on Jan 11th 2011.)
Deadlock that you can’t avoid
I learnt a new mode of dead lock in Java today
Announcing Beta Availability of InfraDNA’s Certified Hudson CI (ICHCI) Server
I’m happy to announce the beta release of InfraDNA’s Certified Hudson CI (ICHCI) Server. ICHCI is a value-added distribution of Hudson, and here’s why I think it’s useful: