Add shared Google calendar to iPhone/iPad

1. Have someone share their Google calendar with you
2. https://calendar.google.com/calendar/iphoneselect
3. Select calendar(s) to sync
4. Maybe wait a minute if you don't see the new shared calendar
5. Select the shared calendar on your iPhone/iPad calendar application

Javascript project development with Pow and deployment to Heroku

Serve your project with Pow

Chrome may throw a bunch of errors if you try to run a local JavaScript project just by opening the file(s) in your browser. Third-party library libraries may be blocked due to cross-origin protocol scheme filtering which does not like file://.

One way to get around this is to use Pow to serve the project.

After installing Pow, substitute your project's location following this example:

cd ~/.pow

mkdir soundpound

ln -s /Users/username/projects/soundpound soundpound/public

Deploy to Heroku

When your project's ready to share, deploy it to Heroku!

1. Create a nodejs project in Heroku
2. Add heroku/nodejs buildback in Personal apps -> Settings in the Heroku console
3. Add a package.json file to your application
4. Push from your git repository to deploy the project to Heroku

Example package.json:

{
  "name": "soundpound",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "description": "keyboard-driven sound and light show",
  "scripts": {
    "start": "harp server --port $PORT"
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "harp": "*"
  }
}

See https://soundpound.herokuapp.com/

Maven things

Install library

mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=com.humegatech -DartifactId=car2go-connector -Dversion=1.2.0-SNAPSHOT -Durl=file:./target/ -DupdateReleaseInfo=true -Dfile=./target/car2go-connector-1.2.0-SNAPSHOT.jar

Deploy to local repository
Add repo to pom.xml

...
  <repository>
    <id>local-maven-repo</id>
    <url>file:///${project.basedir}/lib</url>
  </repository>
</repositories>

Deploy
mvn deploy:deploy-file -DgroupId=com.humegatech -DartifactId=car2go-connector -Dversion=1.2.0-SNAPSHOT -Durl=file:./lib/ -DrepositoryId=local-maven-repo -DupdateReleaseInfo=true -Dfile=./lib/car2go-connector-1.2.0-SNAPSHOT.jar

Release Deployment
http://central.sonatype.org/pages/apache-maven.html#performing-a-release-deployment

Free(ish) tee shirts from tech companies

If you're reading this you've already missed the January 2016 sweatshirt Salesforce offered for earning five badges on Trailhead (https://developer.salesforce.com/trailhead/en), but there are still plenty of folks willing to turn you into a mobile advertising platform.

You will be asked for personal information, a social media connection and maybe even some of your time.

NewRelic http://newrelic.com/lp/datanerd
Just sign up

MuleSoft http://champions.mulesoft.com/
Complete an hour or two's worth tasks: reading, commenting, LinkedIn connection, Twitter following, etc. After a week you'll get a link to redeem your t-shirt: I had to turn of Ghostery and uBlock Origin to complete the redemption process.

CircleCI http://blog.circleci.com/new-stickers-and-circleci-tee-shirts/
Just sign up

SmartBear http://www2.smartbear.com/Yovia-Social-TShirt-Campaign_Yovia-Social-LP.html
Download LoadComplete

5nerdssoftware: http://5nerdssoftware.com/so-you-want-a-free-shirt/
Facebook like

Mixpanel https://mixpanel.com/tshirt
Sign up, be inactive for a week (not sure if this is necessary, but I didn't get an email about the shirt until being inactive after signup), then instrument your application with Mixpanel.  Or just go to your console:

m = Mixpanel::Tracker.new '<your_product_token>'
m.people.set('1', {'email':'first.last@gmail.com'})
m.track('1', 'first event')

Amazon https://developer.amazon.com/public/solutions/alexa/alexa-skills-kit/content/alexa-developer-skill-promotionPublish an Alexa skill before March 31, 2016

Rollout https://blog.rollout.io/2015/12/try-rollout-get-a-free-tshirt/
contact information

Wistia http://wistia.com/shirts
contact information

JIRA Service Desk https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/service-desk
You have to set up an account and do some things in said account

Rollbar https://rollbar.com
Create a free account and then wait a while (2+ months?) before you instrument an application.  I got an email saying that if I instrumented an application with Rollbar they'd send me a shirt for free.

DataDog https://www.datadoghq.com/ts/nagios/
I started a free trial and continue to have free monitoring on a non-production PostgreSQL instance.


On hold
These free shirt offers seem to be over/on hold:

WhenIWork http://wheniwork.com/free-shirt

Codeship https://codeship.com/swag

jMock custom actions, doAll expectation and onConsecutiveCalls

I had an issue with a class that I've not encountered before with projects on which I use jMock: I have a mocked class whose method modifies an object it takes as a parameter.  I suspect this is due to poor coupling in the application, but I'll refactor at a later date -- for now I welcome the challenge as an opportunity to explore three aspects of jMock with which I'm unfamiliar: custom actions, doAll and onConsecutiveCalls.

Problem

public class WillBeMocked {
    public Object processBusinessObject businessObject) {
        ReturnObject returnObject = new ReturnObject(businessObject);

        // change state of input parameter
        businessObject.incrementCounter();

        return returnObject;
    }
}

Solution

create custom jmock.org.api.Action in my test class

private static class BusinessObjectIncrementCounterAction<T> implements org.jmock.api.Action

{

    private final BusinessObject businessObjectInstance;

    public BusinessObjectIncrementCounterAction(final BusinessObject businessObjectInstance)

    {

        this. businessObjectInstance = businessObjectInstance;

    }

    @Override

    public void describeTo(final Description description)

    {

        description.appendText("calls incrementCounter() on the businessObjectInstance");

    }

    @Override

    public Object invoke(final Invocation invocation) throws Throwable

    {

        businessObjectInstance.incrementCounter();

        return null;

    }

}

create static call to construct custom Action in my test class

private static <T> org.jmock.api.Action incrementCounter(final BusinessObject businessObjectInstance)

{

    return new BusinessObjectIncrementCounterAction <T>(businessObjectInstance);

}

use doAll to execute custom Action and mocked class's method call

                

context.checking(new Expectations() {

    {

        oneOf(willBeMockedInstance).process(businessObjectInstance);

        will(doAll(incrementCounter(businessObjectInstance), 

             returnValue(new ReturnObject("A"))));

    }

});

use onConsecutiveCall to 

context.checking(new Expectations() {

    {

        exactly(2).of(willBeMockedInstance).process(businessObjectInstance);

        will(onConsecutiveCalls(doAll(incrementCounter(businessObjectInstance), 

             returnValue(new ReturnObject("A")))),

             doAll(incrementCounter(businessObjectInstance), 

             returnValue(new ReturnObject("B")))));

    }

});

Return code is: 401, ReasonPhrase:Unauthorized. -> [Help 1]: Nexus error via Maven via Jenkins when using a slave node: Solved

[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-deploy-plugin:2.7:deploy (default-deploy) on project project: Failed to deploy artifacts: Could not transfer artifact com.company:project:jar:build_id from/to dirname (http://server:port/nexus/content/repositories/snapshots): Failed to transfer file: http://server:port/nexus/content/repositories/snapshots/com/company/product/build_id/product-build_id.jar. Return code is: 401, ReasonPhrase:Unauthorized. -> [Help 1]

(Output modified to protect the innocent.)

I have Maven builds running on a Jenkins master with slave nodes.  The deploy goal attempts to push artifacts from the build out to our Nexus instance.

To address this issue I had to add settings.xml to the Jenkins slave owner's .m2 directory as this is used during the upload to Nexus, not the settings.xml in the .m2 directory on the Jenkins master box.

How to move a repo from GitHub to Bitbucket

Just collating two existing resources.  As with the first poster I like to store tutorial code, etc. in a private repo so that it doesn't clutter up my GitHub presence when I put something out there.

Import GitHub repo into Bitbucket

http://somatose.com/2011/10/from-github-to-bitbucket-in-60-seconds.html

Delete GitHub repo

https://help.github.com/articles/deleting-a-repository