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| Switched from Hudson to Jenkins Continuous Improvement Build System |
Posted by Paul Rimmer / Wednesday, August 03, 2011 (21:58:13) / (75 reads)
Since Jenkins appears to have superseded Hudson and most if not all new bug fixes and functionality seem to be on Jenkins I've migrated to the Jenkins project. They've both proven to be invaluable in catching bad check-ins on the day they are checked in vs. the day a major release is required as Murphy's rule would dictate. Highly recommended and compatible with numerous verison control and build systems. |
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| Automating The Espresso Machine |
Posted by Paul Rimmer / Sunday, August 22, 2010 (17:42:15) / (1679 reads)
Yesterday I hooked up an external X10 universal module (managed by Homeseer) to control our La Spaziale Mini Vivaldi II espresso machine. Now we don't have to go downstairs every morning to turn the machine on. On weekdays the unit now comes on at 5am and off at 7am, and on weekends its on at 5am and off at 3pm for our morning and afternoon shots. Great little mod! |
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| Getting your Stanza ebooks off your iPhone or iPod Touch |
Posted by Paul Rimmer / Sunday, November 29, 2009 (01:47:51) / (2978 reads)
This might be of interest to those of you that like to read eBooks on your iPhone or iPod touch and use the great reader app, Stanza. There are several places to download books directly onto your device from within Stanza, just take a peek under the Online Catalog section. In case of disaster I wanted to backup the Stanza books into Calibre, the fully featured, multi-platform, open source eBook organizer I've been using. Since there's no way to do this from Stanza I whipped up a little Perl script to do it for me. All you need is an SSH server running on your device and 3 configuration items edited at the top of the script. When executed, it finds the Stanza library on your device, downloads all your books and renames them from the obfuscated name on the device to one that can be easily imported into Calibre. |
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| Nightly Builds for Continuous Improvement |
Posted by Paul Rimmer / Friday, November 20, 2009 (21:24:17) / (2148 reads)
I recently was having issues with a project that was continually getting stuff checked in on HEAD that was broken. You'd spend a lot of time checking everything out and then build it only to find out it was broken  . I decided to setup a nightly build server that would checkout the latest of everything at midnight and attempt to build it. As usual I did a quick Google search on "nightly build tool" and stumbled across the open source project Hudson. Within a short amount of time I had installed this tool on our Linux development server and had configured it to do nightly builds, present the results on a nice web interface, hook into the version control system and do things like email anyone that had checked something in when the build broke. Great tool and highly recommended! Read here for more info. |
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| Migrated Ronin Technologies Version Control System to Git |
Posted by Paul Rimmer / Sunday, November 15, 2009 (23:53:32) / (2291 reads)
This weekend I installed Git on our Linux server to manage software version control. In the past we've used CVS and Subversion but they are getting a little dated and I'd like to see how Git works. Installation was a snap using gitosis with ssh keys. For external viewing I also hooked up viewgit, which gives a nice WebUI interface to the Git repositories. Very impressed so far. You can see it in action here. Only thing I'd like to add is links to each line number. |
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