Hudson Twitter Plugin 0.2 Released

July 03 2008

I released a new version of the Twitter plugin for Hudson today. You can see the details at http://hudson.gotdns.com/wiki/display/HUDSON/Twitter+Plugin. This is the third plugin I’ve written in whole or part and I continue to be extremely impressed with Hudson’s extensibility. I’ve got some other ideas, but I think I’m going to… read more

JRuby Cookbook available for Pre-Order

June 04 2008

In case you didn’t notice the sidebar links, Henry Liu and I are wrapping up a JRuby Cookbook for O’Reilly and it’s up on Amazon for pre-order read more

Using Xvnc within Hudson to run FlexUnit tests

June 04 2008

Like most people unit testing Flex applications with FlexUnit in a Continuous Integration environment, I’ve based our setup on Peter Martin’s blog post from January 2007. In it, he describes one of the core challenges of this type of configuration: the fact that the CI server is likely headless. Martin’s… read more

FlexUnit reports in Hudson

June 01 2008

As a follow-up to my post about using the FlexUnit results produced by the flex-mojos Maven plugin to produce a unit test report, I wanted to point out that this same technique can be used within the Hudson continuous integration server. Here’s what the config looks like: (Note that we’re also… read more

Generating FlexUnit Test Reports with Flex Mojos

May 29 2008

The flex-mojos project supports unit testing of Flex code, but it doesn’t use Maven’s default surefire plugin for running tests. As a result, you need to make a slight tweak to your pom.xml file: <reporting> <plugins> <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-surefire-report-plugin</artifactId> [...] read more

Working with SVNKit

May 27 2008

We’re doing a big project at work that involves splitting up a large codebase into lots of little projects. The general methodology is: Create a new directory in Subversion. Copy some stuff from the main codebase into the new directory. Compile/fix Package Delete files from the codebase and replace with the packaged jar. One… read more