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+ I've uploaded pictures I've taken during JUC Boston and JUC Berlin. + + + https://www.flickr.com/photos/12508267@N00/sets/72157645016261249/[JUC Berlin pictures] starts with pre-conference beer garden meet-up. See https://github.com/vlatombe[Vincent Latombe] gives a talk about https://wiki.jenkins.io/display/JENKINS/Literate+Plugin[Literate plugin]. I really appreciated his coming to this despite the fact that the event was only a few days before his wedding: + + + https://www.flickr.com/photos/12508267@N00/14512095456[image:https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5577/14512095456_7d592d5f9b_n.jpg[image,width=320,height=213]] + + + + In https://www.flickr.com/photos/12508267@N00/sets/72157645015219907/[JUC Boston pictures], you can see some nice Jenkins lighting effect, as well as my fellow colleague Corey Phelan using World Cup to lure attendees into a booth: + + + https://www.flickr.com/photos/12508267@N00/14555175333[image:https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2908/14555175333_48aa816387_n.jpg[IMG_8721,width=213,height=320]] + + + + https://www.flickr.com/photos/12508267@N00/14535019775[image:https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2939/14535019775_60e691c1dc_n.jpg[IMG_8745,width=320,height=213]] + + + + Pictures from https://www.cloudbees.com/cdsummit/[the cdSummits] are also available https://www.flickr.com/photos/12508267@N00/sets/72157645015519967/[here] and https://www.flickr.com/photos/12508267@N00/sets/72157645015398517/[here]. + + + If you have taken pictures, please share with us as your comment here so that others can see them.

+ https://www.flickr.com/photos/12508267@N00/14555329583[image:https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3875/14555329583_c464879a8d_m.jpg[IMG_9194,width=240,height=160]] + + + + After a very successful https://jenkins-ci.org/content/juc-boston-what-day[JUC Boston] we headed over to Berlin for JUC Berlin. I've heard the attendance number was comparable to that of JUC Boston, with close to 400 people registered and 350+ people who came. + + + The event kicked off at https://www.meetup.com/jenkinsmeetup/events/189413622/[a pre-conference beer garden meetup], except it turned out that the venue was closed on that day and we had to make an emergency switch to another nearby place, and missed some people during that fiasco. My apologies for that. + + + But the level of the talks during the day more than made up for my failing. They covered everything from large user use cases from BMW to Android builds, continuous delivery to Docker, then of course workflow! + + + One of the key attractions of events like this is actually meeting people you interact with. There are https://twitter.com/fr3dg[all] the https://github.com/kutzi[usual] https://github.com/orrc[suspects] of the https://github.com/vlatombe[community], including https://github.com/daniel-beck[some who I've met for the first time]. + + + https://www.cloudbees.com/jenkins/juc-2014/berlin/sessions[Most of the slides are up], and I believe the video recordings will be uploaded shortly, if you missed the event.

+ https://twitter.com/BostonVC/status/479338642331426816[ + image:https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bqbz9JQIIAA9gKG.jpg[image,width=300,height=225] + ] + + + + We kicked off this year's Jenkins User Conference world tour in Boston this Wednesday. The event was well-attended with more than 450 people registered and 400+ people showed up. So big thank you for everyone who came! + + + https://github.com/jenkinsci/workflow-plugin[Workflow plugin] that Jesse presented was a big hit and https://twitter.com/search?q=%23jenkinsconf&src=typd[lit up twittersphere], and while I was only able to listen to parts of sessions as people had questions and comments for me, ones that I've seen were great. https://jenkins-ci.org/content/jenkins-user-conference-completely-full[Alyssa] told me that the sponsors were happy too, which is also important to keep events like this going. + + + Perhaps the biggest hit of all was https://jenkins-ci.org/content/get-drunk-code-juc-boston[the "get drunk on the code show] by Steven Christou. When I got in, he packed 30 or so people in the room learning how to write a simple Jenkins plugin, and all the beer bottles were long gone! + + + One of the "fun" activities we did during the event was a trivia quiz. I'm happy to announce the winners here — Tamara from IBM and Prabhu from Staples. Congrats for your Amazon gift cards! + + + During the show, I've heard from several people that they'd love to see more regular local meet-ups. https://twitter.com/duncanmak[Duncan] had shown interest in organizing, and https://twitter.com/tyvole[Jesse] is a Bostonian, so please encourage them to get one going + +

This is a guest post from Markos Rendell, a Senior Manager at Accenture. + https://www.cloudbees.com/jenkins/juc-2014/berlin/sessions#MarkRendell[ + + image:https://www.cloudbees.com/sites/default/files/juc/juc2014/berlin/Mark-Rendell.jpg[image,width=200,height=200] + + ] + + + I am very much looking forward to the Jenkins User Conference in Berlin next week which I will be attending with a three other members of my team. We are all very passionate about automation, infrastructure-as-code, configuration management and of course… Jenkins. + + My team and I specialize in implementing continuous delivery for large scale transformation deliveries. We work with a wide range of technologies from open source, packaged products, through to software-as-a-service. We work with physical infrastructure, private cloud, public cloud and platforms-as-a-service, but there is one almost uniquely common factor… using Jenkins. + + At the conference I will be expecting to exchange views with others using Jenkins at similar scale and am particularly interested in https://www.cloudbees.com/jenkins/juc-2014/berlin/sessions#JosefFuchshuber[sessions] covering using Jenkins with Docker and making Jenkins https://www.cloudbees.com/jenkins/juc-2014/berlin/sessions#HarpreetSingh[more resilient]. + + I am also looking forward to presenting https://www.cloudbees.com/jenkins/juc-2014/berlin/sessions#MarkRendell[this lightening talk] where I will be demoing ways in which we’ve extended Jenkins to implement complex integrated pipelines for large-scale software implementations. https://markosrendell.wordpress.com/2014/05/28/reducing-continuous-delivery-impedance-part-2-solution-complexity/[See here] for a sneak preview.

+ image:https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/-_Beer_garden_sign_-_Germany_-.jpg/160px--_Beer_garden_sign_-_Germany_-.jpg[image] + + + + There'll be a number of active community people in the event, so let's take advantages of that and meet up. And there's no better place to do it than a beer garden in summer! + + + If you are coming to https://www.cloudbees.com/jenkins/juc-2014/berlin[JUC Berlin], I've just set up https://www.meetup.com/jenkinsmeetup/events/189413622/[an RSVP page for a beer garden get together the day before], and https://www.meetup.com/jenkinsmeetup/events/189405872/[another dinner afterward]. + + + Looking forward to seeing you!

+ + https://www.cloudbees.com/jenkins/juc-2014/boston/speakers#ForestHandford[ + + image:https://jenkins-ci.org/sites/default/files/images/Forest_Handford_0.preview.jpg[image,width=240,height=320] + + ] + + + _We're getting excited about the Boston and Berlin JUC's in the next two weeks! Here's a preview of Forest Handford's upcoming JUC-US East Lightning Talk on June 18..._ + + When https://home.meditech.com/en/d/home/[MEDITECH] migrated to Subversion from a home-grown first generation version control system we needed a way to get the code compiled and sent to the running server. We selected Jenkins as our build server, with the hope of eventually using it for CI. + + A MEDITECH application consists of hundreds of source files. Each source file translates to an object code file that the interpreter executes. This is one of the last major projects I worked on prior to leaving MEDITECH to work at Carbonite. In my Lightning Talk, "A Build Eco-System for Loosely Compiled Code," I'll discuss the toughest challenges my team had in getting Jenkins to work as our build server and how we eventually overcame them. + + Staff from both https://www.carbonite.com[Carbonite] and MEDITECH will be in attendance. Both companies are hiring! + + _You'll find more great talks in the full https://www.cloudbees.com/jenkins/juc-2014/boston[JUC-US East] agenda and the https://www.cloudbees.com/jenkins/juc-2014/berlin[JUC-Europe] agenda._

Following right on the heels of our US-East Jenkins User Conference in Boston, we have JUC Europe in Berlin on June 25. Like the East Coast conference, the Berlin one is almost full, so sign up while you can. Our venue in Berlin is KOSMOS, a building with a fascinating history. The building was inaugurated as a cinema in 1961. With 1001 seats, it was the largest, most modern and most popular film theatre in the former GDR and has since been extensively modernized in line with the requirements of historically listed buildings. We have an excellent line-up of speakers filling up two conference tracks. Once again, we have some fabulous sponsors to thank. Without them, there would be no JUC. This year we’ve introduced a new Community sponsorship level, which allows non-corporate groups like JUGSs to help support the conference as well. (Drop a note to juc-oc-ext AT cloudbees DOT com if your group is interested). We are very grateful to all of our sponsors – thank you! Hopefully see everyone at JUC. PS – if you are coming to Berlin for JUC, check out the CD Summit on June 24 at the same venue. There’s also one on June 19 in NYC. The summit will focus on how continuous integration with Jenkins streamlines processes and automates testing and deployment, providing the foundation you need for continuous delivery.

+ image:https://jenkins-ci.org/sites/default/files/images/christou.jpg[image] + + + + Let me start by introducing myself, my name is Steven Christou. Many of you might know me on IRC as schristou, my github id as https://github.com/christ66[christ66], or my twitter handle https://twitter.com/schristou88[@schristou88]. In Jenkins, I am currently working on some significant improvements to the subversion-plugin, along with various random bug fixes. I am also the current maintainer of https://cobertura.github.io/cobertura[Cobertura], an open source code coverage tool for java. Prior to working on Jenkins, I was working on Hudson at the Eclipse Foundation. + + + While working on Jenkins, I usually get requests (usually in IRC) about where to start when writing a plugin. Some examples are "Where do I start?" or "Do you have any examples?". Well at https://www.cloudbees.com/jenkins/juc-2014/boston[JUC Boston], I will be hosting a small lecture called Get Drunk on the Code! I will be giving the lecture in the rooms "Back Bay" (1 & 2) where people will be able to sit down, drink a beer, and learn how to write a Jenkins plugin! I will be teaching people everything from how to get started, to some advanced techniques like writing a new https://wiki.jenkins.io/display/JENKINS/Jenkins+CLI[CLI Command], and writing your own builder. I forgot to mention that I will be handing out beer while this is happening! + + + This session will be happening after the exhibit break from 3:30pm to 6:00pm. It will be two hours where I will be walking around, and helping users if they encounter any issues while the session is happening. So grab your laptop, a beer and get drunk on the code! Don't get too drunk, but if you do at least you can improve the https://wiki.jenkins.io/display/JENKINS/Beer+Plugin[beer plugin]!"