The default setting in Jenkins is to mark a job yellow, when a Maven build fails because of failing tests. If you don't want to have three status of your jobs, you can configure Jenkins so, that the jobs also mark red independent why a Maven build fails. For this you will need administration rights on your Jenkins …

Some years ago, I wrote a blog post about how to generate a P2 repository based on Maven artifacts. That described approach is obsolete nowadays and I'd like to show a new approach that is based on the p2-maven-plugin that was created to solve exactly this problem. P2-Maven-Plugin Integration in Maven Build Life Cycle …

This is a cook recipe to configure an Apache2 as a forward and reverse proxy on Debian-based Linux systems like Ubuntu or Debian itself. Installation It is assumed that the apache2 package is already installed on your system. For the proxy feature, we have to install the Apache2 module libapache2-mod-proxy-html on the …

I usually work on different Git projects that need different Git identities. My work flow for new repositories was Clone new repository. Go to cloned repository. If it is necessary to change the Git identity, call a shell script that runs git config user.name "Sandra Parsick"; git config user.email …

I like to work with git on the command line. But in some cases I prefer UI support. For example, solving merge conflicts is such a case. Git has a command mergetool, which can open a graphical tool to solve merge conflicts. But before you can use this command, you had to configure it. In this blog post I'd like to show …

If you want to install Tomcat on Windows system as a service, you'll get the recommendation to use the 32-/64-Bit Windows Service Installer. If you want to install the Tomcat manually, it's fine. But you can't use this installer for an automatic installation and configuration of Tomcat, because the installer is …

I'd like to share my experience with migration Sonatype Nexus 2 to Nexus 3. Starting Point I used two Nexus instances: A Nexus 2 Instance for Maven Repositories (2.13) A Nexus 3 Instance for Bower Repositories (3.0.1) Both instances had several types of repositories (host, proxy, group). The reason for this set up …

This year on the conference SoCraTes I hosted a session for the first time. It was about working on a Windows system from the perspective of a Linux user. A big thank to @ndrssmn, who motivated to host this session. @yooogan was so nice to summarize the session in the SoCraTes wiki (big thank for that). But the wiki …

I'd like to share some of my thoughts about my approach to solve the Gilded Rose Refactoring Kata by Emily Bache. If you don't know this kata, read the description for a better understanding. I have published my whole solution on GitHub . I tried to make a commit after every step, so you can keep track of my steps in …

In one of my current project, I deal with how to run a Continuous Integration (CI) infrastructure on Windows machines. I have had experience in running a CI infrastructure for five years, but it was always on Linux machines. So in the next months I will write some blog posts about my challenge with Windows machines …