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With so much exciting web technologies being developed, getting time to play with them all can be difficult. So I am trying weekly challenges, where I give myself a simple task, and a week to solve it using a technology of my choice

Clearing out old Jenkins deployments with Python

The task: a Python script to clean up old Jenkins deployments from the filesystem and the database. More →

Rolling back deployment with Jenkins

The task: reverting to a known stable build with Jenkins.
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Building scalable PHP / MySQL websites

The task: summarize notes from a lecture about scaling PHP apps. More →

Tagging a Jenkins build automatically

The task: coming up with a branching strategy to work with Subversion and Jenkins. More →

Using Jenkins to replicate WordPress sites

The task: setting Jenkins up to recreate a WordPress site from data stores in a repository. More →

Installing Jenkins on OS X and Ubuntu

The task: setup a simple CI system for my Linode using Subversion, Jenkins, and Ant.
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Canvas tutorials links

The task: collect HTML5 canvas tutorials and assess them. More →

A Google Apps Script boilerplate

The task: distill my Google Apps Script (GAS) know-how into a Spreadsheets boilerplate, and document it. More →

A script to take screenshots at regular intervals

The task: a Python shell script that calls webkit2png repeatedly to take screenshots of a website at various intervals. The script will be called webkit2loop. More →

Json to Google Tasks with the PHP API library

The task: a PHP shell script to read JSON data (from a file, or CouchDB for extra points), and use it to manage tasks in one's Calendar. The script will simply be called jsonToGoogleTasks.
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Reduce RSS noise with Yahoo! Pipes

A very simple Weekly Challenge to get me started. The task: create a series of aggregators of RSS and twitter feeds, and a simple HTML scraper, using Yahoo! Pipes. More →