I released Jenkins ChromeDriver plugin that auto-installs chromedriver on all slaves. Here is why this is useful.
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.
Jenkins now acts as an SSH daemon
Starting in the upcoming Jenkins 1.446, Jenkins speaks the server-side of the SSH protocol. I think this is exciting, and here is why.
Webinar: Jenkins Enterprise by CloudBees
On Janurary 10th, I’ll be doing a webinar about Jenkins Enterprise by CloudBees (formerly known as Nectar, which we renamed with the permission of the community.)
Jenkins Plugin Tip: Access control and visibility in actions
As I discussed before, Action is one of the primary ways plugins use to add more information to the top page, project pages, build pages, and so on.
Installing plugins to Jenkins without restart
Today I’m going to talk about the upcoming feature in Jenkins 1.442 (to be released today), which allows you to finally install plugins without restarting Jenkins.
Polling must die: triggering Jenkins builds from a git hook
As I keep saying, polling a repository from Jenkins is inefficient; it adds delay on the order of minutes before a build starts after a commit is pushed, and it...
Introducing template plugin
The Nectar 11.10 release that we just made has the template plugin, which I think is one of the very useful plugins that we added to Nectar that’s not available...
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.