Using a Cisco VPN .pcf file with Ubuntu

It's Winter Break and I need to log into the Northwestern VPN, but alas - I've forgotten how to set it up and the Northwestern IT website isn't helpful (we don't support Unix, they say). Here's how I did it on my Ubuntu 11.04 box: Download the .pcf file and put it on your Desktop or somewhere. In...

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Setting up Hudson to trigger a build with every push to your GitHub repo

Once again, this required a little bit of parsing around the internet. The way to trigger a Hudson build remotely is to send a POST request to this address: http://<hudson addr>:8080/job/<your-job-name>/build In order to find the exact POST URL for your Hudson install, navigate to the...

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Headless Jasmine testing with Hudson/Jenkins

There is some literature out there on this, but parsing through it was super-hard, especially for a person like me who's a newb to all these TDD contraptions. For instance, this very excellent link shows you how to set up headless testing, but is vague when it comes to Hudson integration: http://www.build-doctor.com/2010/12/08/javascript-bdd-jasmine/ So...

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Installing a specific Android SDK component from terminal on an Amazon ec2 instance

For his Software Project Management class, Professor Riesbeck is having us setup continuous integration servers. Our eventual projects will be using PhoneGap to create Android/iOS apps (Android in my team's case), so my task this weekend has been to figure out a way to set up a CI server (we chose...

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