Tools

Chrome Dev Tools Reloaded

1. April 2012

Are you using Firebug or Venkman? Did you ever tried the Chrome developer tools? If your answers were yes and no you should watch this video from Google IO 2011 about the Chrome developer tools: If your answers were no and no you should consider watching the video, too. And you should think about better ways than sprinkling alert() all over you’re code and forget them there for the joy of the user.…

Hudson vs. Jenkins

21. March 2012

Do you remember Hudson CI? If you did some CI two years ago then you know Hudson and you also know that after the acquisition of Sun by Oracle there was hassle in the community. End of story was that the lead developer Khosuke and some of his fellows spun of the Jenkins project. That’s the short version. For the longer one ask the search engine of your choice. But one import issue for newbies to CI is the question: Which project should we use?…

Maven And Arbitrary Jar Files

4. January 2012

Since I’m coding sometimes with Java I also use Maven to manage dependencies. It is a very easy and straight forward approach to use Maven. Also very nice that Netbeans just opens a POM file. No need to configure a project or such. But now I was confronted with the need to include a library which is only available as stand alone jar file. The solution is to install the jar file into your local Maven repository as described here.…

Darcs in Hudson/Jenkins CI

15. February 2011

At work we’re using heavily the DVCS Darcs. Beyond dispute Darcs is in my opinion a good and suitable workhorse. Ok, it’s not that hip like Git is. But the biggest drawback is the lack of integration in other tools like IDEs, issue trackers, build tools etc. There is also no SCM integration for Hudson/Jenkins continuous integration server, which we’re using at work, too. Long time I were complaining about this bad integration like others, too.…