Category: Development

  • Jenkins update

    Jenkins update

    So a few weeks ago I started a project to install Jenkins and set up CI/CD on my projects. Well just after I started that project I had a series of big life changes that put that on hold for a few weeks. I left my old job and have been reorganising my life, getting…

  • Setting up Jenkins

    Setting up Jenkins

    This is part 1 of my CI/CD experiment. In this post, I’ll be focusing on getting Jenkins up and running. This build was supposed to take me 15 to 30 minutes but I kept running into issues that needed fixing that ballooned that time to a few hours. I haven’t mentioned them here but I’ve…

  • Setting up my own CI/CD

    Setting up my own CI/CD

    So I’m a fan of automation because I don’t like repeating stuff and I’m lazy. One of the things I learned at my job is to automate CI/CD. I had a little time during the weekend and I decided to actually implement my own CI/CD setup and decided that since I’m going to do it…

  • Grails’ false “proxy” problem

    Grails’ false “proxy” problem

    Background I haven’t used Grails in a while so I chose to use it for a small web application I needed to build yesterday. Mostly because I wanted to see what was new in version 3.2.4. I have a bit of a history with Grails, it’s now like a running joke with me that almost…

  • Development Log

    Development Log

    During my work career I’ve learnt to keep a diary of the things I do. It helps to document all the new things you encounter during your day, that way when you meet similar problems down the line you won’t have to start the research process all over again. Currently, I keep all that data…