Centrum Systems Announces Partnership with Appian

We at Centrum are committed to providing independent, specialist end to end  Business Process Management consulting and implementation services across Australia and New Zealand. We think our holistic approach combined with real, hands-on experience supports customers to achieve incremental and sustainable improvement outcomes no matter what the size or complexity of their business.   We mix expertise and [...]


Centrum Systems Announces Partnership with Neo Technology

Centrum Systems is pleased to announce we are partnering with leading NOSQL database supplier Neo Technology (http://neotechnology.com) to provide services to support the implementation of the Neo4j product for customers in Australia and New Zealand. Centrum will provide a range of services including training, implementation support, POC, architecture and integration services for customers of Neo4j.   Neo Technology [...]


Build Pipeline Plugin Release 1.2.2

We are pleased to announce the availability of version 1.2.2. The release addressed bugs. Bug Fixes The following defects have been resolved. Remaining defects are visible from the google code issue tracker (http://code.google.com/p/build-pipeline-plugin/issues/list). Defect ID Summary 42 Renaming pipeline jobs breaks pipeline 47 Build Pipeline View cannot display full downstream projects 48 Downstream parameterized job [...]


BRIEFING: Delivering Better Software (Tests as a Communication Tool)

Come and join us for drinks, socialising and a special presentation This will be a really informal session, with plenty of opportunities to ask questions and interact. If that doesn’t sell it to you, how about the FREE DRINKS?? The Talk Completing the circle: Automated web tests, ATDD and Acceptance Tests as a team communication [...]


BUILD PIPELINE PLUGIN RELEASE 1.2.1

We are pleased to announce the availability of version 1.2.1. The release addressed bugs and enhancements. NEW FEATURES Retry Failed Jobs If a job in the pipeline fails, the job will now display a “Retry” button. This allows the user to retry this job, with the parent build remaining as the trigger and continue the [...]


Build Pipeline Plugin Release 1.2

We are pleased to announce the availability of version 1.2. The release addressed a few bugs and enhancements. New Features Build Parameters Inherited by Downstream Jobs If the parent job has parameters defined, those parameters are passed down to all subsequent child jobs for manual jobs.  Note: an automatically triggered downstream job should use the [...]


Centrum Systems at Agile Australia 2011

Centrum Systems will be sponsering Agile Australia 2011. Agile Australia is going to be packed with case-studies of how leading businesses are adopting an Agile approach to stay ahead!   As well as Agile dignitaries Alistair Cockburn and Martin Fowler, international Agile guru Jean Tabaka, and celebrated Australian industry author Rob Thomsett Learn how to respond quickly [...]


Coding standards harmony

Coding standards Most mature software development companies or departments define their coding standards.  The intentions is simple; ensure all code looks alike to ease reading, writing, maintaining and communicating code.  As a first effort, these coding conventions may be expressed in some form of standalone document, but conventions that are not being enforced are simply [...]


Publishing to Jenkins and Hudson – ease versus control

The split The popular open source continuous integration server, Hudson, forked a few months ago.  Its creator, Kohsuke Kawaguchi, along with a larger part of the open source community forked Hudson and created Jenkins. As for Hudson, it is now under the Oracle and Sonatype umbrella. In the meantime, we at Centrum Systems were writing [...]


BUILD PIPELINE PLUGIN RELEASE 1.1.2

Following great community feedback about the Build Pipeline Plugin 1.1.1, we are pleased to announce the availability of version 1.1.2.  The release addressed a few bugs and expanded its SCM support (namely Git and Mercurial). BUG FIXES The following defects have been resolved. Remaining defects are visible from the google code issue tracker (http://code.google.com/p/build-pipeline-plugin/issues/list). Defect [...]