Category Archives: howto
Boolean Params in Jenkins
I modified an existing job in Jenkins to use a boolean flag, so I could check it if I wanted to disable the Maven tests. To do so, you define a property: mvn -Dmaven.skip.tests=true goal goal… So for the boolean … Continue reading
Convert Hg to Git
I have several Bitbucket-hosted Mercurial repos for my binary baseline and some development projects. I started to use Mercurial because the syntax was easier. In the meantime I have been using Git at work and could not remember the Mercurial … Continue reading
OSX – show environment vars of a running process
jenkins$ ps -wwE -p 38654 PID TTY TIME CMD 38654 ?? 67:40.42 /usr/bin/java -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote -Xmx2048m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m -jar /Application /Jenkins/jenkins.war SHELL=/bin/bash TMPDIR=/var/folders/5f/qnywwqmx3h5fxnwlcssp2sr00000gn/T/ USER=jenkins __CF _USER_TEXT_ENCODING=0x1F5:0:0 JENKINS_HOME=/Users/Shared/Jenkins/Home PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin PWD=/ CATALINA_OPTS= -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote SHLVL=0 HOME=/Users/jenkins LOGNAME=jenkins SECURITYSESSIONID=1c2 92 com.apple.java.jvmTask=CommandLine JAVA_ARCH=x Ahhhhhhh.
Picasa export faces
I use the Picasa app on Windows to use facial recognition to assist in tagging photos. Recently with the passing of a relative, I needed to locate photos with her face in them, so Picasa worked nicely. Once you find … Continue reading
Ubuntu 12.04 boots to shell after icky update. Discuss.
I started up my Ubuntu 12.04 VM in VMWare Workstation 6. It has been a while, so some update messages popped up. Sure. Afterwards, it rebooted and hung there. I should have left it; I force shutdowned and restarted. Now … Continue reading
Moving on from the SCP-3810
So we moved off of Sprint, and Bette got a Verizon phone that we soon hope to have on PagePlus. Her old phone was a Sanyo SCP-3810, that I wanted to get some photos from before I wiped it. There … Continue reading
Rapid Environment Editor
Since Windows 95, and earlier, Windows has suffered from a miserable editor for environment variables. Something most users need to do at some point, usually when something is going wrong and they are on with support, should not have to … Continue reading
How do you add a local Eclipse feature from a local build?
I’m trying to use a branch version of the m2e Android plugin to fix a problem with ADK r20 (see error-importing-maven-android-android-project-to-eclipse-with-adt-20 ) Turns out, Ricardo already merged the adt-20 branch to master. $ git clone https://github.com/rgladwell/m2e-android.git $ cd m2e-android $ … Continue reading
Water Flow
Here we are in the midst of the worst drought in my memory, and this, the year of the prairie native garden walk. Our garden looks like a hayfield. While I was watering some bushes, I wondered how long I … Continue reading
Building svn2git from Qt
Trying to convert a SVN repo to Git. The Ruby version works, but does not commit all the files with the correct CRLF chars – seems to ignore the global settings. svn2git http://svnhost.xx.com/svn/repo/mobile/circdesk-android/trunk –rootistrunk –verbose > x I can reconvert … Continue reading