When:  Tuesday, March 27th 6:00PM
(pizza + networking @ 5:30 followed by 1 hr presentation @ 6:00)

Where:  Tipping Canoe (601-62 Albert St., Winnipeg)

Note that this is a new location! 6th floor of 62 Albert St.

What :  Jenkins is an open source product from the Java community that provides a slick web interface to build tools like Ant, Maven, or whatever else you can imagine you would like to do as a regular “job” on your code. This could include running unit tests when someone commits code to your SCM, packaging up an artifact for deploying, deploying code to various servers, sending messages, running SVN statistics programs, virtually any automation you can think of.

In this talk Joel will install Jenkins, go through the configuration and suite of tools you’ll need, connect it to an SVN server, and set up some jobs. By the end a demonstration of using Jenkins in practice should be complete.

Who:  Joel Klaverkamp graduated from the Computer Analyst / Programmer course at RRCC in 2001 and proceeded to work for the City of Winnipeg, Concordia Hospital, the WRHA and Manitoba eHealth before quitting government work altogether to join the team at Tipping Canoe in 2008. After a year of working there he was made Head of Development for Quidco and a year after that relocated to London, UK to hire and train a team of developers to bring the Quidco development in house. After setting up the team and installing the Agile process, Joel moved back to Winnipeg and now works once again as a software developer for Tipping Canoe. There are many technologies Joel is familiar with, but he always enjoy learning more. Joel also enjoys making music and spending time with his family.

How:  We’ll start the meetup with Pizza and networking at around 5:30. Joel will present at 6:00 and we will try to wrap up by around 7:00. Feel free to stick around and chat after the presentation as well (we may head to the King’s Head after)