A few months ago I enjoyed running a couple interviews with folks who were using Hudson but lately I’ve lacked the time and coffee to get more interviews done. I am planning on making up for it by bringing my fancy smancy tape recorder (i.e. a smartphone) and a few notepads to the upcoming JavaOne conference here in San Francisco. If you’re interested in talking...

Last time I talked about HudsonMobi 2.0 there were some hiccups with the QR code which made me pretty irritated. Now the leading mobile app for Hudson users has regained my trust with their latest release for iOS 4, the latest incarnation of Apple’s mobile operating systems for iPhones and iPod Touches. Since I fall into the category of subhumans who for one reason or...

Just wanted to let everybody know that I’ve gone ahead and added a Calendar for all the upcoming Hudson-related events. Hopefully we’ll be able to add more and more events for the rest of the year including seminars, more meetups and potentially a few drink-ups! Worth mentioning that I’ve not yet tested the iCal feed so if you have troubles with it, let me know (via...

September is turning into a meetup month for the Hudson community. In parallel to the meetup in Oslo and the meetup in JavaOne, Nokia and InfraDNA are hosting a meetup in Copenhagen on September 6th, Monday. Read on for the details. The current tentative plan is to do a short "state of the union / what’s new" kind of presentation, then use the rest of...

JavaZone is a big Java conference in Scandinavia, and Hudson is well represented there. On September 8th, Håkon Snøtun will be presenting "Top 5 plugins for Hudson and Chuck Norris." and on September 9th, I’ll be presenting "Getting more out of your Hudson." But more importantly, what is a conference without drinking!? So in that spirit, InfraDNA will be organizing a Hudson User Meetup at...

As we near autumn up here in the Northern Hemisphere, the wind is starting to blow a bit chillier and here in the Bay Area that can only mean one thing: Oracle is suing everybody! it’s time for JavaOne! A whole lot has changed since last year, Sun Microsystems was acquired by Oracle, Kohsuke left Snoracle to found InfraDNA and Hudson has continued to power...

I’ll be in Copenhagen from 9/5-9/7 and in Oslo 9/8-9/9 to present in JavaZone. I’d like to take advantage of the opportunities and have user meet-up events in those cities. Depending on the number of participants, it could be just a drink in a bar, or a talk in a meeting room. So if you are: in those cities, available in the evening of 9/6, 9/8, or...

CloudBees announced the beta availability of their new Hudson-as-a-service "HaaS" today. I see this as yet another validation to Hudson, and as such, I welcome this new addition to the community and wish them well! — more companies betting on Hudson means we’ll get more investment to the project, which is all goodness for Hudson users. It’s been 5 months since I left Oracle...

On September 1st, I’ll be presenting in a Sauce Labs webinar about Hudson and Sauce OnDemand. The talk will discuss how Hudson can be used with Sauce OnDemand, naturally, but it’ll also cover broader Hudson/Selenium integrations. Please register to this free event, and looking forward to seeing to you virtually....

In late 2008, the Hudson team released version 1.264 which added an anonymous reporting feature (you can opt-out in the "Manage Hudson" screen). The reporting feature has been sending information back to the Hudson team to help us understand how Hudson is used in aggregate; the info being reported includes the number of jobs configured, agent configurations, what plugins (and what versions of those...