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.