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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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