Tag Archives: github

Mavenizing an empty GitHub project in Eclipse

Posted on May 6, 2012 by Willie Wheeler

This post is for myself more than anything else, just because I keep forgetting the steps involved. I’m using SpringSource Tool Suite 2.9.1.RELEASE, which is based on Eclipse 3.7.2 (Indigo). I have the egit and m2e Eclipse plugins installed. The … Continue reading →

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Using Spring Social GitHub to access secured GitHub data

Posted on March 6, 2012 by Willie Wheeler

At my Skydingo blog (a devops blog written in collaboration with Paul Jenson) I just wrote a quick post with some screenshots of an open source, Spring-based CMDB I’m building called Skybase. In the current post I want to show … Continue reading →

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Skybase now supports authorized access to GitHub via Spring Social GitHub

Posted on March 6, 2012 by Willie Wheeler

This one’s another quick Skybase screenshot post. Using Spring Social GitHub, it’s easy to access public user and repo information via the GitHubTemplate. But if we want to access private information, or write capabilities, we need to use the Spring … Continue reading →

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Spring Social GitHub: revisiting GitHub integration

Posted on January 17, 2012 by Willie Wheeler

In my last post, Calling the GitHub API using Spring’s RestTemplate, I explained how to call a public endpoint that retrieves a repository’s watchers on the GitHub API using Spring’s RestTemplate. I was happy to receive a comment by Craig … Continue reading →

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More Skybase screenshots

Posted on January 17, 2012 by Willie Wheeler

Hey Internet people, Willie here. It’s been a little while since I’ve posted Skybase screenshots, so here’s the work in progress. I explain how to implement this stuff (Spring Data Neo4j, Spring/GitHub integration, JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit, etc.) in chapter 11 … Continue reading →

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Skybase/GitHub integration

Posted on January 14, 2012 by Willie Wheeler

A major goal for Skybase is to tie together the activities of developers, testers, release engineers and operations. A few major benefits are: Tool integration: We can single source app lists and more across development, build, test, deployment, monitoring, knowledge … Continue reading →

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Calling the GitHub API using Spring’s RestTemplate

Posted on January 14, 2012 by Willie Wheeler

GitHub has an RESTful JSON API that we can call from our apps. In this post I’ll show how I’m grabbing a GitHub repo’s watchers and pull them into my own app using Spring’s RestTemplate. Meet the GitHub API First, … Continue reading →

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