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I haven’t written any C++ since 2009, or cross-platform C++ since the 90s. Working with the language in 2020 continues to require a lot of paper and glue (a.k.a. autoconf and ma...

I love reflection, especially the Ruby kind. JavaScript reflection, though, can exhibit interesting runtime behavior.

Jenkins AnsiColor, the essential Jenkins plugin version 0.3.0 has been released.

I just released AnsiColor 0.2.0 that now supports the ANSI conceal code. Conceal code 0x8 is a hacky way to hide data inside text using ANSI sequences. Jenkins uses it to annota...

I went through a few iterations of running builds via shell commands in Jenkins. Once I added a remote node things didn’t work quite the same as on master. I learned that Jenkin...

I’ve released AnsiColor, a Jenkins plugin you’ve all been waiting for.

A nice way of telling CIJoe (or any other CI service) what to do is to commit git configuration under, for example, git-config.

Let’s build JNA on a Windows AMD 64. I am always confused about which Cygwin packages I actually need to do that. Every time I get it wrong. So this is what you need beyond the ...

I recently moved to a 64-bit Windows 7 and one of my project’s build broke.

In a previous post I’ve described how to do product/build versioning with MSBuild. Another common build aspect is building different flavors of code: Debug vs. Release.