Colin's Devlog

Can you please help me with some pointers?

2011-12-02T15:10:51.850-05:00

Can you please help me with some pointers?

Hi, I am new to Jenkins and trying out some exampl...

2011-12-02T15:10:17.336-05:00

Hi, I am new to Jenkins and trying out some example from a tutorial,
My build stuck after this
"Cloning the remote Git repository
Cloning repository origin"
And i don't know where i have made mistake, but, i could successfully clone the code from command prompt

thnx.. I changed the user and it works fine

2011-10-24T04:12:16.342-04:00

thnx.. I changed the user and it works fine

I saw this too after getting just a config.xml in ...

2011-06-25T09:55:50.726-04:00

I saw this too after getting just a config.xml in an email! It was easy enough to spot ...

<project>
:
<scm class="hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM">
:
<gitTool>Git for GitHub</gitTool>
:
</scm>
:
:
</project>

... versus ...

<project>
:
<scm class="hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM">
:
<gitTool>Default</gitTool>
:
</scm>
:
:
</project>

I agree 100%. Joshua Bloch even has a specific it...

2011-06-21T07:19:24.603-04:00

I agree 100%.

Joshua Bloch even has a specific item related to this in Effective Java (second edition): "Item 47: Know and use the libraries".

His main point is that, "by using a standard library, you take advantage of the knowledge of the experts who wrote it and the experience of those who used it before you".

Other advantages he mentions:
- you don't waste your time reinventing the wheel, focusing instead on your core business needs
- the performance of library code improves over time, and new functionalities are added

On SO, I'm glad when someone suggests a library that does the job, instead of reinventing the wheel. If it makes sense to add the library, I'll add it. If not, I can at least look at the code to get inspiration, and include in my code the bits I'm interested in (with a comment pointing to the library in case I later realize I need to do more).

All this being said, Guava is a no-brainer.

@RambleCampbell: I just mean ensuring that Jenkins...

2011-05-04T17:03:14.962-04:00

@RambleCampbell: I just mean ensuring that Jenkins is running as the user you expect it to be running as and that that user has a .ssh directory in place that works for talking to github. Unfortunately, I probably can't help you more than that. I've fought with this issue a couple times and I think there are various things that can cause it, most of which I don't know how to fix off the top of my head. Good luck!

Hey, thanks for the post! Sadly, I'm still hav...

2011-05-04T16:35:29.621-04:00

Hey, thanks for the post! Sadly, I'm still having the same problem. Can I ask you a question: what do you mean by "Ensuring that Jenkins was running as the correct user."? I have pageant running as a collaborator on a project, and I can clone using GIT GUI, but Jenkins fails. Do I somehow have to run the Jenkins service as a different user tied to the SSH collaborator key? Any help you could provide would be most appreciated. Thanks, Landon campbelllandon@hotmail.com

Goods stuff. Makes plain old static Java looks mor...

2010-07-04T07:23:50.573-04:00

Goods stuff. Makes plain old static Java looks more like dynamic language.

Nice.

2010-01-24T14:45:03.055-05:00

Nice.

Amen.

2010-01-24T14:18:58.618-05:00

Amen.