Cynic's Blog

Contributing to OpenStack can be tricky at times because of the gerrit , a web collaboration tool and jenkins , a continuous integration system. Gerrit is a web based code collaboration system and Jenkins is continuous integration (CI) system which maintains a sane and deployable version of the code at all the time. Although, both makes like easier for experienced developers and system integrators, it can be intimidating for a newbie, myself being one. So, here I present some basic steps one has to take for submitting code for review in jenkins. Create an account at https://review.openstack.org /.  If you have launchpad account you can use the same account by simply pressing the sign-in button and then entering launchpad credentials. While you are at it, generate an ssh-key in the machine from whcih you will be pushing your code to gerrit by issuing the command, ssh-keygen –t rsa less ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub  Now copy and paste the key to https://review.openstack.or...

To be honestly, the emulator which comes with Android Studio sucks! So, the only option left is to either connect a physical device to test out your apps (which I assume no one among us would like to do) or to use third party android emulators like androVM/virtualbox etc. Now, the thing is because of devilish market forces and 'policies' charted our by MBA guys, androVM, now rechristened as genymotion stopped releasing their awesome android images which could easily be downloaded and imported into any hypervizor like VMWare/VirtualBox. Instead, they have started making users register to their website and making them download images only though their genymotion application. But, some angelic creature has mirrored the old-er images (as new as 4.1.1). You can access those images at this page . The description about the download variants can be read here . Now that being said, download the suitable images on .ova format and import the image in VirtualBox and voila! you h...