Hudson Helper for Android

Recently I launched Hudson Helper for iPhone and iPod Touch, enabling Continuous Integration fans to stay in touch with their projects. Android users can get in on the game now too, with Hudson Helper for Android.

Hudson Helper for Android provides all of the same features as the iPhone version including support for multiple servers and authentication. New for this version are build controls: start and stop builds right from your phone. CI can be even more fun with shake-to-build and sound effects.

To get Hudson Helper for Android, search for 'Hudson Helper' in the Google Market on your Android device.

Tip: Twittering About Eclipse Bugs

A quick tip for including an Eclipse bug URL in your 140-character tweets: Bugzilla for Eclipse supports short links. Instead of using the long-form URL or impossible-to-decipher URL shorteners, take out the 'bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=' part of the Bugzilla URL as follows: https://bugs.eclipse.org/277974

Hudson Helper and Untrusted Certificates on the iPhone

If you're using a self-signed certificate or a certificate signed by your own certificate authority with the Hudson Continuous Integration Server then you may be wondering how to get your iPhone to trust your certificate. Well, you're in luck because Benjamin Boksa has written an excellent tutorial explaining how to do just that: iPhone OS 3.0 – Root Certificate Authority installation. After following the tutorial you should be able to use Hudson Helper with untrusted certs and your secure Hudson server.

WikiText in Eclipse Galileo

Ian Bull of EclipseSource has provided an excellent summary of Mylyn WikiText and what it means for Mylyn users and Galileo. WikiText is number 4 on Ian's Eclipse Galileo Feature Top 10 List. Mylyn WikiText is part of the highly anticipated Eclipse Galileo release due out this Wednesday. You can find out more about WikiText from the Mylyn homepage, the FAQ, and the downloads page.

Galileo Builds On Your iPhone

With the Eclipse Galileo release exactly a week away, I'm presenting a quick tutorial on how you can monitor the Galileo hudson build on your iPhone with Hudson Helper. I'm also giving Hudson Helper away for free to the first 20 Eclipse contributors^* to send me an email.

Here are the steps to take to get Hudson Helper set up with the Galileo build:

1. If you haven't done so already, install Hudson Helper. You can get it by searching for 'Hudson Helper' in the app store, or via iTunes here.


2. Next, go to the Settings application on your iPhone or iPod touch. Under Hudson Helper, Server 1 URL enter the following: https://build.eclipse.org/hudson/view/Galileo
   Notice that it's https, not http.
   
   
   
   You may have noticed from the screenshot that a new version of Hudson Helper is now available with support for HTTP authentication.
   


3. That's it! Close the Settings app, launch Hudson Helper and you should see the following:

Even though Hudson Helper has blue balls, it can still help to keep you up to date with your builds!

^*If you're an Eclipse committer you qualify. If you're not an Eclipse committer but have contributed at least 2 patches to Eclipse, you qualify. If you were a committer you qualify. If you aren't a committer, but are a Friend of Eclipse you qualify.