A brief (25 minute) introduction to the Hudson continuous integration, and how I use it effectively as a one-man custom software development consultant. A must see for anybody who spends hours each week preparing and distribution builds, especially for iOS devices.

1. Saving Time & Money Through Build Automation: Intro to Hudson James Jennings

2. Saving Time & Money Through Build Automation: Intro to Jenkins James Jennings

3. Agenda The Problem The Solution Building Deploying Notifying Q&A

4. The Problem Project file

5. The Problem Targets

6. The Problem Build Configurations

7. The Problem Provisioning Profiles/Certificates

8. The Problem

9. The Problem

10. The Problem

11. The Problem

12. The Problem “hey james can you send over a new build when you get a few” “a few” = 20 mins

13. The Problem “hey james that last build didn’t install on XYZ’s phone” “a few” = 20 mins + 1 to 2 hours Real money wasted

14. The Solution This isn’t rocket surgery. Automate!

15. The Solution Enter Hudson! Trigger Build Deploy Notify

18. The Solution Triggers SCM File changed

21. The Solution Build Xcodebuild Compound build

24. The Solution Deploy FTP Dropbox

26. The Solution Notify Email Successes and Failures

33. Questions?

34. Thanks! @jamesjennings jamesjennings.com @mobiledstrtn mobiledistortion.com