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Jenkins can be used to run nightly builds for C++ projects. For this example we’re going to keep it simple and just cover a basic C++ build pipeline. This PipeLine will checkout a C++ project from a private GitHub repository and build the software using the g++ compiler. In addition to running a nightly C++ …
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GitHub has disabled simple username/password authentication which means we will need to create SSH keys for any Linux accounts that will need access. Below I am using the ssh-keygen command to create a public key for my buildagent user on my Jenkins build agent server. I do not specify a passphrase on this key because …
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If you day trade or swing trade stocks on the stock market you are probably familiar with the concept of back-testing. When you back test a stock trading or investment idea you are basically testing a theory. The traditional process of back testing stock trading strategies usually means opening up your investment trading platform, like …
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The following is example Python code for the Raspberry Pi camera. The camera module supports over 30fps at 1080p and has many features that can easily be set in a Python program. This code which will take the raw camera data and allow you to save frames as jpeg images or work with the raw …
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In this podcast episode James talks about his history with computers, how he dropped out of high school to pursue a career working with computers, how he got kicked out of college and how he helped the department of homeland security.
In this tutorial I will show you how to install an single SSH build node (aka build agent) which you could use as a template for creating a distributed Jenkins environment. There are many different ways to setup your Jenkins environment and the way I teach it is to set it up to be as …
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Learn how to create your first Jenkins Pipeline . This contains a short video clip and example Pipeline for Jenkins.
In this post I explain how to install Jenkins on Debian 11. I prefer installing Jenkins as a distributed service using build agents over using the Jenkins main server for the testing itself. The agent based setup will allow you to create one or more build agents that your automated pipelines can utilize depending on …
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There are two ways that I download stock data with Python. The first way is using the AlphaAdvantage API and the second way is by using the Alpaca.Markets API. Both are free. This stock data will be put into easy to use Python data types which can be used to create stock trading bots, stock …
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The following code will calculate the Relative Strength Index (RSI) of a stock in Python. This Python function takes a Pandas DataFrame as a parameter and calculates the average gains and the average losses and then return the RSI as a new DataFrame. To use this function you will need stock price data that is …
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