Watch Me Code, Episode 1

In my spare time, I am involved in the Apache Maven project. We are in the process of migrating from Subversion to Git and a number of people wanted to know how we might find some better ways of working with Jenkins.

I thought it would be useful to create a video series showing how we make these improvements. While some aspects of these improvements rely on Apache-specific infrastructure choices, the ideas themselves are more generally applicable.

A long time ago, I wrote a series of blog posts on developing plugins for Jenkins. A lot has changed since then, and hopefully this video series will provide a different take on plugin development and show what exactly is involved in developing a custom, Jenkins plugin to solve an organization-specific need.

Anyway, here’s Episode 1. I am planning 11, in total. 

I hope you like the series and learn from it! 

Stephen Connolly is a member of the engineering team at CloudBees. He has over 20 years experience in software development. He is involved in a number of open source projects, including Jenkins and Apache. Stephen was one of the first non-Sun committers to the Jenkins project and developed the weather icons. Stephen lives in Dublin, Ireland - where the weather icons are particularly useful. Follow Stephen on Twitter and on his blog.

Check out the entire series:

• Watch Me Code - Episode 1
• Watch Me Code - Episode 2
• Watch Me Code - Episode 3
• Watch Me Code - Episode 4
• Watch Me Code - Episode 5
• Watch Me Code - Episode 6
• Watch Me Code - Episode 7
• Watch Me Code - Episode 8
• Watch Me Code - Episode 9
• Watch Me Code - Episode 10
• Watch Me Code - Episode 11