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CloudFormation template failing to deploy
The Problem While attempting to deploy a CloudFormation template from the console, I was greeted by a rather strange error message: And…
Subst'ing a drive in Windows 7 / 10
Setting up a mapped drive is great, it gives you a handy shortcut to a particular folder and a really short path when you want to refer to…
Groovy - unable to resolve class
The Problem I have a groovy script that I’m writing and I’m trying to link to | include | reference another groovy “library” that I’ve…
Reordering pages in LIFERAY forms
Problem So you’ve created your form with multiple pages and you’re asked to swap the order of pages one and two… Err, if I click on the…
Spring / ZUUL - Failed to introspect annotated methods
The Problem Working through the spring security tutorial at https://spring.io/guides/tutorials/spring-security-and-angular-js/ and I’ve…
Sourcetree stuck on POST (chunked)
The problem When pushing large files up to BitBucket (git in general?) Sourcetree gets stuck on the POST command stating: It seems to be…
Turning off Windows 10 ads
The Problem While I totally appreciate that I was gifted Windows 10 for free by Microsoft, I did not appreciate, however, how badgered I’d…
Failure to install / update ruby gems
Problem: While trying to update ruby gems: I ran into the following error: I’d recently installed a new certificate so I assumed it was that…
PostgreSQL - Casting integer to interval
Problem: So you have an integer value or field in a table and it represents a period of time, say minutes for example, and you want to…
piggly trace- invalid multibyte escape
Background: After installing piggly (see here for instructions) I had to remove the latest version of piggly due to this issue: and I thus…
Jenkins stuck on "Retrieving Git references..."
When using the Git Parameter Plugin to allow the user to choose a branch to build in our Jenkins build job, occasionally we’d find that the…
Jenkins & Groovy - accessing build parameters
We’re using Jenkins version 1.651 with the Groovy plugin for Jenkins version 1.4. I had real trouble getting access to the build parameters…
Creating a Jenkins slave as a Windows service
I really struggled to find accurate information on how to create a Jenkins slave on windows and have that slave set up as a service. So here…
Why Jenkins?
I suppose this could just as easily be “Why Continuous Integration?” or “Why Automated Build?” but for the purposes of this article I’m…
