running an x server during a bamboo (or other sort of automated) build

so, you have your continuous integration system up and running. you’re using Bamboo from Atlassian since they rock. however, you have a need to run some tests that require an X server to be running (like flexunit tests).
if you were using Hudson, there’s a plugin that will start/stop Xvnc for you. there’s demand for a [...]

October 29th, 2008 · Tags: , | | 2 Comments »

Mac-friendly IntelliJ IDEA keyboard shortcuts

I just read elharo’s IDEA criticisms, and since keyboard shortcuts are his main one, I thought I’d share the set I’ve been using for years in IDEA.
Like him, when I started using it on the Mac, they drove me nuts. Since this was back when Eclipse sucked mightily on the Mac, I remapped them all. [...]

August 13th, 2008 · Tags: | | No Comments »

svn 1.5.1 breaks maven release plugin?

this morning i upgraded from subversion 1.5.0 to 1.5.1 via macports.
this afternoon, i tried to do a release of some software at work.. and the maven release plugin was failing! its a very odd error:

[INFO] Tagging release with the label release-0.4…
[INFO] Executing: svn –non-interactive copy –file /tmp/maven-scm-1130425261.commit . https://example.com/workstuff/release-0.4
[INFO] Working directory: /Users/osi/Documents/workstuff/trunk
[INFO] ————————————————————————
[ERROR] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] [...]

July 30th, 2008 · Tags: , | | 3 Comments »