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Author: doozer

  • WordPress Redirection Plugin

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    I recently installed a new WordPress site as a replacement for an older site and I needed to redirect the old pages to the new site. I installed the WordPress redirection plugin in order to do this as it looked well supported and feature rich.

  • Ubuntu Install – GRUB on the USB

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    It seems like only yesterday that I was installing Red Hat from floppy disks. Fortunately things have moved on a bit and now I generally install Ubuntu from a USB stick. The other day though I ran into a new problem. At the end of the process the installer asks if you’d like to install…

  • Simpler KVM Network Configuration

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    In the series of articles I wrote discussing the installation of KVM on Ubuntu I spent articles 2 and 3 discussing the network set up but it occurred to me that it was actually an unnecessarily difficult set up and so in this article I’ll discuss a simpler KVM network configuration set up.

  • KVM Migration Problems

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    I recently experienced some KVM migration problems while moving virtual machines from my development laptop to my server. The laptop has a Core i7 processor but the server is running a Core i5 and, as you might expect, they have different features available. In this article I’ll explain what I did to fix my KVM migration problems.

  • Jenkins SonarQube Analysis SVN Blame Command

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    I’ve been setting up a Jenkins CI server for the last few days and I’m getting to the last few steps where I work out all the wrinkles and make everything play nicely together. The issue I’m fighting with at the moment I’m going to call SonarQube analysis SVN blame failure for the want of a…

  • SonarQube with Jenkins Configuration

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    Configuring SonarQube with Jenkins while running Maven builds sounds like it should be a breeze but, I at least, found myself scratching my head wondering how to make it work. I’d got SonarQube installed and running and I had Artifactory installed and ready to go. Jenkins was running builds fine but getting SonarQube with Jenkins working…

  • SonarQube on Ubuntu 14.04

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    SonarQube (previously just Sonar) is an open source code quality tool. In this short series of articles I’ll be installing and configuring SonarQube on Ubuntu 14.04. Installing SonarQube on Ubuntu is just part of a wider continuous integration (CI) server build that I’ve been performing. Previous articles include installing Artifactory and Java 8.

  • PageSpeed Stupidity

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    I like to try and make sure my sites are running as well as they possibly can and one of the tool I use to check this is PageSpeed from Google. Unfortunately today it appears to have become a bit confused while analysing this site not so much PageSpeed Insights as PageSpeed Stupidity…

  • Migrating from Nexus to Artifactory

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    I thought migrating from Nexus to Artifactory would be a seriously painful process but it actually turned out to be quite simple. My biggest concern was maintaining my release history as it would be impractical to try and move hundreds artefacts by hand. The article below describes the process I used.

  • Artifactory on Ubuntu 14.04

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    As part of a new continuous integration (CI) server build I need to install a Maven repository manager or software repository. After much debate I’ve decided to go with Artifactory on Ubuntu but the choice was not easy.

  • Java 8 on Ubuntu 14.04

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    Getting Java 8 on Ubuntu 14.04 is a topic that is very hotly debated (1, 2, 3, etc, etc) but it looks like this important piece of software won’t officially make it into Ubuntu 14.04 in any time frame that is useful – I’m writing this May 2015, OpenJDK 8 was released March 2014 and…

  • Installing WordPress on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS – Part 3

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    In the previous article in this installing WordPress on Ubuntu series I installed WordPress and performed the initial configuration. In this part I’ll continue the configuration to the point where we have a running site.