I had briefly contemplating what sort of silly posts I could write to celebrate April Fool’s Day, when I sat down to write out some of them, I got a few sentences in and decided that they just weren’t funny enough. Either I have very high standards, or I’m terribly unfunny. The web is awash with April Fool’s articles, comics, headlines and everything else, so...

/https://agentdero.cachefly.net/continuousblog/java-evil-edition.png" alt="java evil edition">There have been numerous discussions on the mailing lists over the past couple months regarding memory issues, speed regressions and a number of other issues regarding performance of Hudson, particularly under high load. In an effort to address these concerns, the Hudson core team has https://web.archive.org/web//https://agentdero.cachefly.net/continuousblog/just-kidding.jpg[announced] a roadmap for Hudson 2.0. In a message to the dev@ mailing list, Kohsuke said of...

After Hudson got some major publicity at PyCon Atlanta 2010 I haven’t been as quick as I would have liked with Python-related posts and tutorials. I use Hudson to build and test a number of pure Python modules and C extensions across numerous Python versions (covering 2.4 - 3.1). For most beginners, or those simply looking to get started with Python on Hudson, starting...

This week’s release comes slightly later than usual and is mostly a clean-up of a few bugs. Due to a problem with the Kohsuke’s GitHub mirror of Hudson’s core, I can’t mine the commits for interesting information as per usual so you’ll just have to trust that Hudson 1.353 is chock full of good, wholesome bug fixes. If the problem persists next week, I’ll...

A few weeks ago I passed a job listing that I had found through one of my many Google Alerts for Hudson-related queries to Andrew (abayer), following up on one of those job listings Andrew recently signed an offer to join the nice folks over at Digg to be their resident "build guy." On its own I thought "great for Andrew!" and nothing more,...

I apologize for the lack of posts this week, I’ve been quite pre-occupied and a quirk in the twipFromSvn.py script prevented the generation of this post’s contents earlier; thanks to rpetti it works again! This week was an interesting week in plugin development, a slight regression in the release of Jabber notifier plugin 1.7 resulted in the rapid release of a 1.8 release by kutzi....

While I work on some screencasts and start to get more "Spotlight" interviews lined up, I figured it’s time for a link roll-up for your Tuesday morning reading. We caught a glimpse of a little Java scoreboard app for Hudson from @davefollett Matt Patterson of Reprocessed.org wrote a great post on continuous integration with Rails with Hudson, running both Rspec and Selenium tests. At the hackathon at...

After an exciting week that saw the rushed release of Hudson 1.351 on Monday following a fairly serious regression, Hudson 1.352 was released mid-Friday with a good mix bug fixes and enhancements. Bundled with this release was another localizations drop including translations for ca, es, fi, fr, hi_IN, it, nl, ru, and sv_SE locales. In addition to the nice fancy new community contributed translations,...