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 was …

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 …

For deleting a Windows service in Windows CMD, you have to call 1sc delete "Service Name" This doesn't work in PowerShell, because sc is an alias for the cmdlet Set-Content in PowerShell. Deleting Windows service in PowerShell can be done by calling 1sc.exe delete "Service Name" Note, that PowerShell has to be run as …

If you google "serverspec install ubuntu", you find the information that a package called ruby-serverspec in the standard package repository can be used to install Serverspec on an Ubuntu 14.04 LTS based system. Unfortunately, this package installs an outdated version of Serverspec. The next point is that if you try to …

Guest Contribution by Markus Jenderek We wanted to evaluate the new Confluence plugin LivingDoc as a replacement to Fitnesse in order to execute automated web GUI tests. Confluence 5.7.1 (Non-Cloud version) Inside Confluence HSQL In-Memory DB for evaluation purpose LivingDoc plugin 1.0.0.jar Selenium Webdriver for …

In September I visited the conference "Herbstcampus" in Nuremberg. I took notes about some sessions, that I like to share with you. The notes are in German. SOLIDes Design - Kriterien für objektorientiertes Design by David Tanzer Wie geht's? Was geht? Wann hat es Sinn? - Portierung von COBOL-Programmen nach Java by …