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This article originally appeared in the January 2013 issue of GroovyMag. There’s no denying that the World Wide Web has become absolutely integral for information storage and delivery. There are more than 600 million sites serving up over 80 billion individual pages and many more pages and web services being added every day(http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2012/09/10/september-2012-web-server-survey.html). And behind […]

This article originally appeared in the December 2012 issue of GroovyMag. Some different ways that Groovy makes interacting with the web easier One of the major benefits of Groovy is how it simplifies some of the common scenarios we deal with in Java. Complex code with conditionals, error handling and many other concerns can be […]

The Goal Using the GitHub API, Groovy and GraphViz to determine, interpret and render a graph of the relationships between GitHub users based on the watchers of their repositories. The end result can look something like this. [singlepic id=81 w=900 h=450 mode=watermark] The GitHub V3 API You can find the full documentation for the GitHub […]

The point of this article is to show you how to parse data from an Excel spreadsheet that looks like this: [singlepic id=78 w=700 h=400 mode=watermark] and turn it into a series of graphs that look like this: [singlepic id=79 w=700 h=400 mode=watermark] Recently I was looking for an opportunity to get some practice with […]

It’s been almost a year, but I finally had some time to revisit some code I wrote for interacting with the Jenkins api. I’ve used parts of this work to help manage a number of Jenkins build servers, mostly in terms of keeping plugins in sync and moving jobs from one machine to another. For […]

1. Ensure all of your Jenkins builds are building the correct branch from source control I manage a large number of builds at work, spread across several build servers. When we release a new version all of the builds need to be updated to point to new working branches. This script takes advantage of the […]