Release Management Blog

Jenkins Continuous Integration Cookbook book review

2012-01-09T13:38:00.000-08:00

Jenkins Continuous Integration Cookbook book review should be started from the author introduction. Alan Berg is a senior developer at the Central Computer Services at the University of Amsterdam and the author of Sakai CLE Courseware Management: The Official Guide. His second book, Jenkins Continuous Integration Cookbook, contains 80 recipes to maintain,

How to install IIS 6 on MS Windows Server 2003 R2 VHD - SOLVED

2012-01-04T19:00:00.000-08:00

Recently I wanted to automate a few administrative routine tasks for IIS 6.0 running on MS Windows Server 2003 using adsutil.vbs, IIS administration utility. In order to try a few scrips I wisely decided to install evaluation Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 VHD using Microsoft Virtual PC. Not surprisingly Windows 2003 image comes without IIS, but it sound obvious that anyone can install IIS 6.0

Choosing between Jenkins and Hudson?

2011-12-12T21:44:00.000-08:00

If you have to choose between Jenkins CI or Hudson CI, the numbers really speak for themselves.  Measurement Metric Jenkins CI server Hudson CI server  User upgrades since March 2011 85% 15%  Ticket activity since split<!--

Integrating PHP Projects with Jenkins - Book Review

2011-09-21T22:36:00.000-07:00

The book Integrating PHP Projects with Jenkins written by Sebastian Bergmann takes all PHP developers not using continuous integration yet on a fast-paced educational journey of learning Jenkins, the popular continuous integration server. The book author Sebastian Bergmann is the creator of PHPUnit, a de-facto standard in the field of quality assurance in PHP projects, shows readers how to

index.php file not found or unable to stat - SOLVED

2011-09-16T22:34:00.000-07:00

It seems that average Windows 7 user doesn’t like to change default system settings and as result I just spent some time helping the friend of mine to resolve the 404 error [Fri Sep 15 20:48:34 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] script 'C:/Apache/Apache2.2/htdocs/index.php' not found or unable to stat The friend is an absolute PHP beginner with some programing experience, who recently bought on

Jenkins User Conference

2011-08-23T09:26:00.000-07:00

In case you are not aware - Jenkins User Conference (JUC) will be held the Sunday before JavaOne – October 2 – at the Marines Memorial Hotel in San Francisco, starting 9 am till 7 pm. This is a major milestone for the Jenkins Community. Several vendors including CloudBees, Liferay, and Red Hat are helping to organize this first Jenkins conference. Jenkins project founder Kohsuke Kawaguchi will

Redirect iPhone iPad Android with Apache mod_rewrite

2011-06-15T14:01:00.000-07:00

iPhone detection and redirection using Apache rewrite rules is obvious. For example this code in .htaccess file will redirect iPhone users to a iPhone specific site. RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} iPhone [NC] RewriteRule .* http://www.seleniumguide.com/ [R] In case there is a need to redirect iPhone, IPad and Android mobile devices, the code could be written as RewriteEngine

Yahoo! Mail is down

2011-04-28T11:32:00.000-07:00

I been having trouble getting into my Yahoo! Mail for a few hours already and apparently I’m not alone. Yahoo! Mail Beta can’t load We were unable to open your mailbox. Try loading again If you continue to have issues, please contact customer care The following error code may help with troubleshooting: LaunchTAE14 A few days ago I switched to Yahoo! Mail Beta, but even my

The Silicon Valley Continuous Integration Summit

2011-03-23T12:30:00.000-07:00

I plan to attend upcoming Silicon Valley Continuous Integration Summit hosted by LinkedIn on April 7th 2011 in LinkedIn office in Mountain View, California. Yoav Landman from Artifactory, Hans Dockter from Gradle and Kohsuke Kawaguchi from Jenkins CI will discuss the world of continuous integration and delivery, challenges and solutions around building and releasing source code, continuous

Practical Android Projects - Book Review

2011-03-13T22:12:00.000-07:00

Practical Android Projects book by Pieter Greyling and Lucas Jordan is a good place to start with Android development assuming that developer reading the book is already proficient in Java and perhaps JavaScript. The book is for developers who want to develop mobile applications for Google Nexus One, Motorola Droid, Samsung Galaxy S, HTC phones or Android-based tablet computers using the Android

Jenkins CI server optimization

2011-03-08T12:10:00.000-08:00

Back in Janurary, Kohsuke Kawaguchi, the creator of Jenkins, a continuous integration server, gave a very insightful webinar titled "Seven Ways to Optimize Jenkins CI" and discussed in the details a check list for production Jenkins deployments. The main content of that webinar is now available in a whitepaper Jenkins Continuous Integration Server optimization hints: Back up and restore - make

Java Programming 24-Hour Trainer - Book Review

2011-02-20T19:51:00.001-08:00

There are a number of developers who have already knew several programming languages, but adding Java and Java EE to resumes could dramatically increase the chance to land on the better paid software developer job. There are already a number of books for Java beginners developers like Head First Java, Sams Teach Yourself Java 6 in 21 Daysand even Sams Teach Yourself Java in 24 Hoursbook. Do we

Jenkins Continuous Integration Server

2011-01-11T11:57:00.000-08:00

Last year Oracle asserted that they owned the trademark for Hudson continuous integration tool and Hudson community is not free to move the project to GitHub from Java.net and and still keep the Hudson brand. Now it seems the conclusion is made that Hudson CI will be renamed as Jenkins CI and the ownership will be transferred to Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC). Apparently this move is not a

Setup multiple instances of Tomcat on Windows as Windows service

2010-05-13T15:38:00.000-07:00

The steps for the setting multiple Tomcat instances on Windows would work for Apache Tomcat installed by Windows Service Installer. For configuring several Tomcat instances installed as Windows application look at Running multiple Tomcat instances on Windows Download and install Apache Tomcat as Windows Service. Check that the installation created windows service and you could stop and start

The class not found in jar file: mxmlc.jar

2010-04-08T14:08:00.000-07:00

We are using ANT and QuickBuild to compile our Flex project and decided to switch from Flex 3 SDK to Flex 4 SDK. Unfortunately we got this error during compilation The class not found in jar file: mxmlc.jar To resolve this error, we just copied the flex_ant/lib/flexTasks.jar file from Flex 4 SDK to Ant's lib directory ({ant_root}/lib) replacing existing flexTasks.jar

Continuous Delivery

2010-02-17T19:50:00.000-08:00

The new book about continuous integration "Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation" by Jez Humble and David Farley is available for order. You could check the book review on Best Books for Continuous Integration Top Recommended page.

Running multiple Tomcat instances on Windows

2010-02-12T15:35:00.000-08:00

The steps for running multiple Tomcat instances on Windows described below would not work for Tomcat installed as Windows Service InstallerDownload and install Apache Tomcat to an appropriate directory with no spaces and directory name, for example C:\Apache\Tomcat1For each instance of Tomcat you're going to run, you'll need a directory that will be CATALINA_HOME, so create C:\Apache\Tomcat2

Scala vs. Groovy

2009-07-08T10:09:00.000-07:00

Surprising thoughts on Scala from Groovy creator James Strachan : Scala as the long term replacement for java/javac?I can honestly say if someone had shown me the Programming Scala book by by Martin Odersky, Lex Spoon & Bill Venners back in 2003 I'd probably have never created Groovy.

The downfall of Agile

2009-05-27T16:03:00.001-07:00

The agile lead goes crazy when he learns his agile team has not been following the principles of the agile manifesto. At least the team implemented the continuous integration.

Resolving HTTP Error 413 - Request entity too large

2009-04-30T22:53:00.000-07:00

This error has been reported by a few users to me regarding application which seats on Tomcat fronted by Apache and configured to use Apache Tomcat Connector mod_jk Request Entity Too Large The requested resource /testapp/ does not allow request data with GET requests, or the amount of data provided in the request exceeds the capacity limit. The mod_jk.log file shows [error]

Could not find a valid processor version implementation

2009-03-05T15:06:00.000-08:00

While trying to generate JUnit test results for Weblogic application with Ant JUnit task and merge all the XML test reports into one HTML document by using Ant JUnitReport task, I got an error Could not find a valid processor version implementation from weblogic.xml.jaxp.RegistrySAXTransformerFactory The "WebLogic Server Known and Resolved Issues" list mentions the workaround for CR301115 "

Continuous integration survey

2009-02-01T09:34:00.000-08:00

The author of Continuous Integration survey - What companies expect and solutions provide tries to answer on these questions : How do the companies run their integration processes and what is important to them? What do companies expect from Continuous Integration solutions and how can available Continuous Integration solutions fulfill their needs?

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: sun/awt/X11GraphicsEnvironment

2008-11-06T21:54:00.000-08:00

This error was reported by QA during an attempt to display charts in Weblogic application created with JFreeChart Root cause of ServletException. java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: sun/awt/X11GraphicsEnvironment at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method) at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:164) at java.awt.GraphicsEnvironment.getLocalGraphicsEnvironment(GraphicsEnvironment.java:68) at

Oracle JRockit Mission Control

2008-10-28T14:19:00.000-07:00

We want to monitor Weblogic 9.2 running Jrockit R27.3.1-1 on Red Hat Linux from Windows XP machine. Guided by Oracle JRockit Mission Control 3.0.3 tutorial I added -Xmanagement:ssl=false,authenticate=false,autodiscovery=true,port=7091 flag to Weblogic 9.2 start up script and restarted server. Also, I asked Unix admin to open port 7091 on Linux box, but when I try to connect with Oracle

Senior Subversion Engineer

2008-09-05T11:12:00.000-07:00

Hoping to find the perfect job I monitor "software/QA/DBA/etc jobs" section of local Craigslist using web-based aggregator Google Reader. Today I noticed the opening for Senior Subversion Engineer which starts as "Our client, an industry leading e-commerce Company has an immediate need of a Sr. Subversion Engineer to deploy and integrate bug tracking system to Subversion". Not long ago I