Our current team has decided to adopt Git and some members aren’t familiar with it. I wanted to put together a short introduction to the Git command line for these team members. The goal is to make team members productive immediately, while learning the nuances of Git over time. My introduction assumes that you have… [Read more…]
May 2, 2012
I have been using Git for a while now and in that time, I have learned the value of using aliases. Whenever I setup a new machine with git, adding my favorite aliases is first on my list. I wanted to capture some of my favorite aliases here. This will serve as not only a… [Read more…]
December 30, 2011
I’ve been trying to setup a Jenkins build of a private GitHub project recently and found it wasn’t as straight forward as I thought. GitHub provides a feature called Deploy Keys, which are SSH keys used to authenticate servers to your GitHub repository. Here’s how I set them up. On your Jenkins server, generate a… [Read more…]
September 14, 2011
I came across an interesting blog post by James Carr discussing his workflow when building Java applications. In general, I think that the stack and process he mentions is top notch. I love Gradle, Jenkins, Artifactory and Git/GitHub. I have been playing with or using in production all of these tools and they are amazing.… [Read more…]
March 4, 2011
Last week, I was asked to give my opinion on Application Lifecycle Management or ALM. Specifically, I was asked how can teams effectively manage their design, development, test and deploy processes as well as pick the right tools for the job. Here is the answer I gave: The cornerstone of a strong ALM process is based… [Read more…]
May 3, 2012
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