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here. I particularly agree with what Jeremy has to say about the comments on Lloyd-Jones' treatment of history - comments that at the conference were made, I think, by David Ceri Jones but taken up and developed here by John Coffey.
I'm a big fan of Lloyd-Jones. I'm doing my doctorate on his evangelistic preaching. I don't think he was infallible, and am quite willing to say precisely where I thought he was wrong. I welcomed the conference, the critical analysis and some - emphasise some - of the papers. One or two of the papers - which haven't found their way into the book - were delivered, to all appearances, by men who'd once met someone who'd heard of Lloyd-Jones vaguely, so shallow were their comments. Others of the papers were somewhat thin. Perhaps I'll be back to this when time permits; meanwhile, read Jeremy.


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From one Childs hand to another - New Investigative article to come !!
Shocking revelations of co-operations, chocolate and child labour
By Wayne Dean Doyle
When peeling back the wrapper of that piece of chocolate or maybe being overwhelmed with comfort whilst sipping that cup of cocoa, would you embrace the oncoming delight and comfort if you knew more than 109,000 children from the Ivory Coast work under some of the most horrific forms of child labour? And over 10,000 of these children are victims of trafficking and enslavement.
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Enough with playing hooky, it's time to get back to the blog!!
I have been missing it a lot actually...
Update for those of you who only get your news through this blog. My dad had a stroke on the last day of November. Lisa, Tom and I flew to Fargo the middle of the next week to see what we could do to help, and stayed for two weeks. Dad had a remarkably quick recovery!! It was fun to visit with the folks and their friends, decorate for Christmas, bake cookies and have time with Mom. We even got to see Dad sing with his choir.
Unfortunately, my husband, Andrew, ended up in the hospital (first time in 29 years of marriage, and I was so very far away), so we got in my parents' van and drove straight home. Andrew ended up being fine, and we celebrated Christmas back in Michigan, quiet and relatively uneventful, but ever so nice. Hope yours was wonder-filled as well!
In one of my last posts, November 18th, I was working on a card for one of my aunt's friends. Finally, I can show you the finished project.
I painted the three pansies, as well as the background paper using CTMH ink. It was so much fun that I plan on experimenting with it a lot more.
It's a brand new year....2013!! Can you believe it?
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On October 18 PCC will host Astrophotography – Larry Wilson
I retired from my job with Caterpillar in 2008 and decided to re-engage with my lifelong interest in astronomy and astrophotography. I became interested in the hobby originally in 1958 when one night south of Chillicothe where I grew up, my Dad took me outside pointed up in the dark sky overhead at a slow moving white pinpoint of light. He told me it was a Soviet satellite named Sputnik and one day it would be able to drop bombs on us. From that time onward I was hooked on looking up!
I wanted to be an astronomer and graduated from college in 1969 with a BS Degree in Physics. But due to Viet Nam, I ended up working at Caterpillar for 38 years, raised a family and set aside seriously pursuing my hobby until retirement.
About a year after I retired I discovered that DSLR cameras worked great for astrophotography. I became interested immediately and started learning the hobby all over again. My first results were taken using a Canon Rebel XTi mounted on a tripod. After that I gradually progressed to taking multiple time exposures through a guided telescope and I thoroughly love being back at this hobby again. At my current location at Lake Thunderbird by Putnam, I have a good dark sky to both observe and do photography and just about any clear Illinois evening you can find me out with my cameras and scopes capturing some aspect of the gorgeous scenery overhead!


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Today, yards are not just seen as mere outdoor areas but an extension of a house's living space as well. This is the very reason why a lot of people are now investing in landscaping and beautifying their yards. And one of the newest emerging trends today is the use of an outdoor fire bowl. A fire bowl will not only make you and your guests feel comfortable outdoors but they can also make your yards look extra charming and inviting as well.
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With all the banks paying back the TARP money, some folks are assuming that the great Wall Street bailout is finally coming to an end.
But of course it isn't!
Taxpayers are still guaranteeing all big bank bonds (Too Big To Fail) and subsidizing huge bank earnings and bonuses with absurdly low interest rates.
But instead of bellyaching about it, you might as well just smile and cash in. After all, that's what Wall Street's doing.
So here's how to make the world's easiest $1 billion:
STEP 1: Form a bank.
STEP 2: Round up a bunch of unemployed friends to be "bankers."
STEP 3: Raise $1 billion of equity. (This is the only tricky step. And it's not that tricky. See below.*)
STEP 4: Borrow $9 billion from the Fed at an annual cost of 0.25%.
STEP 5: Buy $10 billion of 30-year Treasuries paying 4.45%
STEP 6: Sit back and watch the cash flow in.
At this spread, you should be earning at least 4% per year on your $10 billion of capital, or $400 million. Sure, there's some risk that the Fed will grow a backbone and raise short rates, but there's not much risk. (They have an economy to fix and banks to secretly recapitalize). And in any event, if the Fed raises short rates, making your $1 billion will just take a bit longer. (And if they REALLY raise rates, causing you to actually lose money, it will be someone else's problem.)
You'll have made $400 million in a single year! So pay yourself a fat salary for all your hard work. And pay your "bankers" fat salaries for all their hard work (But don't worry–your bankers won't actually have to do anything. You'll just need one of them to borrow the money from the Fed and buy the Treasuries, which he will be able to do part-time.) At the end of the year, celebrate. It's bonus time!
Don't be greedy. Pay yourself and your bankers the industry-standard compensation ratio of 50% of revenue. Your revenue was $400 million, so that creates a $200 million bonus pool. Pay each of your unemployed friends bankers, say, $1 million. And give yourself the rest for being such a smart entrepreneur and creating all the jobs and value.
Now, you've already made at least $150 million, so it doesn't really matter what happens next. But you're in this for the world's easiest $1 billion, right?
So proceed to Step 7.
STEP 7: Go public. After bonuses, your bank will be earning about $200 million a year, your capital ratio will be super-strong (10% equity-to-debt!), and your balance sheet will be clean as a whistle (all risk-free Treasuries!). So you ought to be able to persuade investors to pay you at least 20-times earnings, or a valuation of $4 billion. Sell 25% of the company for $1 billion.
STEP 8: Use your $1 billion of new equity to borrow another $9 billion at 0.25% from the Fed. Buy another $9 billion of Treasuries. Collect another $400 million a year. Pay yourself and your team bonuses that are twice as large as last year's. You deserve it! And you're now about $500 million to the good.
STEP 9: Wait for your stock to double or triple, which won't take long given your amazing growth trajectory and clean balance sheet. When your market cap hits $10 billion, sell another 10% of the company for $1 billion. Now you're really ready to grow.
STEP 10: If you want to get fancy and get nice profiles written about you in business magazines, start buying branch networks from defunct banks (the FDIC will pay you to take them) and start making actual loans. Also, start hiring trading desks to gamble on things more exotic than Treasuries. Yes, all this sounds risky, but just remember–the risk isn't yours, and you're already $500 million to the good.
STEP 11: Sell $500 million of your stock to a "strategic investor" and let the rest ride. Don't worry, if your traders and loan officers turn out to be idiots or the Fed suddenly raises rates, the taxpayers will handle it. And you've already made your $1 billion.
So, congratulations, you're now a billionaire! Now all there is left to do is celebrate!
* If you've been paying attention, you will note that the only potentially tricky step in this process is the "raise $1 billion of equity." Where, exactly, are you going to get $1 billion of equity? Well, you will have to do some selling there.
Basically, you'll have to tell a few investors about your awesome new business plan (see above) that will earn them returns of at least 20% on their equity from Day 1. A 20% return on equity is a lot, especially when the return is largely risk free. So you should have no problem raising that $1 billion of equity.
Given the government's desperate desire to get banks to start lending again, you might also want to try to hit up the government for some funds. The pitch will be simple: Old banks aren't lending because they're hiding embedded losses and need to protect their balance sheets. You don't have that problem. You'll use the equity to LEND. (And you will use it to lend! You don't have to say that you're going to lend it to the US government. None of the other banks are saying that.)
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This book is slight in extent and is clearly aimed at a student audience (witness, for example, the minimal bibliography and lack of footnotes, the illustrations scattered throughout the book, and the list of suggested essay questions on p. 94). But the theses it attempts to argue for are, on the contrary, bold and interesting. My main criticism of the book, then, is that it is entirely the wrong format in which to have undertaken such arguments. L-T wants to argue (1) that Plato cannot be sharply distinguished from the Sophists and rhetoricians he deplores, indeed that 'his entire conception of the art of philosophical writing was sophistic' (19); (2) that Plato was not seeking to propound a particular philosophy, but to promote philosophy in general. The connection between the two theses, according to L-T, is as follows: if Plato is seen as propounding a certain philosophy -- moral realism -- one of the main ways he does so is by contrasting Socrates with the Sophists. So, if L-T can narrow the gap between the Sophists and Plato (and weaken the influence of Socrates), he can more plausibly argue that Plato was not intending to promote a particular philosophy. This doesn't follow, of course; L-T could argue for either of his main theses independently of the other. It seems rather to be the case that he has used this book to exorcise bees that were buzzing in his bonnet, by tying them somewhat loosely together within a single book. At the same time, a great deal of the book is not even devoted to developing arguments for these theses, but to standard summaries of the work of the Sophists, Socrates, and Plato, designed to be helpful for the student reader. This is all too much work for a short book to do.
It will already be seen that the title of the book is utterly misleading. The focus is not particularly on Plato's Republic at all. There are brief surveys of all the early and middle-period dialogues, with only slightly more space devoted to Republic than to, say, Phaedo. Indeed, for obvious reasons, L-T's theses could work best when considering the early dialogues. There the dialogue form is prominent, aporia is rife, and no particular philosophy is espoused, but rather a philosophical method. There too the number of weak arguments might allow L-T to narrow the gap between philosophy and rhetoric. This is not quite the course that L-T follows, however; his terribly unsatisfactory survey of the early and transitional dialogues is devoted to plotting the putative development of Plato as a stylist, and these dialogues might as well have hardly any content as far as L-T is concerned. Thus, for instance, the speech of the Laws in Crito is described as an interesting 'technical experiment', but there is no discussion of what Plato has the Laws say, its relation to the earlier part of Crito, to aspects of Apology, and so on. This emphasis on Plato's 'style' is misleading. No one denies that Plato was a consummate stylist, but it does neither Plato nor his modern students any service to pretend that all there was to the man was style.
It will also be seen that, in a book of this limited extent, bold theses such as L-T espouses can be argued for only with a high degree of generalization. This is exactly what we find. He claims that Plato had three objectives in writing the dialogues: to defend Socrates' memory, to attract pupils to the Academy, and to promote the discipline of philosophy. But did Plato have only these three broad objectives in all the early and middle dialogues? Was he not also interested in the particular subject or subjects each of the dialogues explores? When was the Academy founded, such that Plato needed or wanted to attract pupils? L-T takes as his target the view that all the early and middle dialogues are supposed to be devoted to the 'defence of a philosophical position which is known as the Theory of Forms' (33). But no Platonic scholar would lump all the earlier dialogues together like this. These and similar generalizations run throughout the book, and will make it hard for most scholars either to accept L-T's theses or recommend the book to their students.
At the same time, his arguments for his theses are usually weak, and in any case no more than suggestive. As I have already said, even if as a stylist Plato borrowed the techniques of the Sophists, there is more to Plato than a mere stylist, and so the gap between him and the Sophists remains. Or again, following a standard summary of the work of the sophists and Socrates, L-T tries to narrow the gap between them. Here, I think, he fudges the issues. It is hard to deny, at least on the available evidence, that Socrates was a far more systematic and thoughtful philosopher than the Sophists, and it is hard to dismiss the importance of Socratic innovations such as the categorical denial of the propriety of ever injuring anyone else. The only point of doctrine L-T is interested in is the Theory of Forms (TF), and here, as I have said, he wants to deny that there is such a theory. This is not as controversial a thesis as L-T makes out; it is commonly recognized that Plato nowhere propounds the TF as a theory, rather than assuming it in certain contexts. Nevertheless, L-T surely goes too far when he says (67): 'the Theory is not something that Plato or anyone else ever actually held (at least not until it was revived by middle and late "Platonism").' What, then, was Plato himself criticizing in Parmenides? What was Aristotle responding to? There is a huge difference between recognizing that Plato never gives us the official version of the doctrine, and denying that there was any such doctrine at all.
According to L-T the TF, such as it is, is 'an elaborate rhetorical device'. The pupils he wanted to attract to the Academy would expect a philosopher to have a theory, so he dangles the TF as a lure to potential pupils, making out that they can expect to undergo the kind of initiation that the mystery religions were offering. This is the core of the conclusions L-T reaches after considering Phaedo and Republic. It is not surprising to find that L-T regards Phaedrus as in some sense Plato's maturer statement of the service rhetoric can perform for philosophy, applicable to all the earlier dialogues. I think L-T wants us to believe that on arrival at the Academy pupils would be encouraged to study philosophy, but not necessarily Platonic philosophy; this is a plausible (and again not original) thesis, but it does not require the trivialization of Platonic thought that L-T has outlined in this book.
On the plus side, it must be said that L-T writes elegantly, and often comes up with a pithy way of encapsulating an idea which will be of great service to students. So, for instance, the atmosphere of the meeting between Socrates and Protagoras in Plato's Protagoras is 'rather like that of a particularly intense men's singles final at Wimbledon' (13). L-T reads Plato as a consummate stylist with little interest in the meat of philosophical doctrine; this looks to me very much like a case of his judging Plato by his own standards.


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My goal this August is due at least 11 minutes per day of a workout THUS, "All days in August". Yesterday I didn't get it a workout until late, but I did my stretching routine. For the past at least 6 months I've gotten into the habit of doing a bedtime stretching routine most days after my shower. Last night I did a little shorter version, probably right at about 11 mins I always start with wall stretches for my shoulders and back, then some calf stretches then do some handstands + some straddle In my handstands. And then I do um some hip flexor stretching and then downward dog and a pike reverse hyperextension leg lifts. Then I also do um a knee bend hyperextension opening to the side. Then I also do straddles stretches, a figure 4's, frogs and More hip flexor stretches using the bed as a brace and stretch my hamstrings of course and also making sure to stretch my wrists and shoulders more.
Today I Got up earlier and had a protein shake for breakfast but it kinda made me nauseous. Despite that, I went ahead and did my leg workout I started with Bulgarians Paired with hip thrusts. And some side leg raises Also added in Some ABS then I did leg extensions and deadlifts followed by squats and hip twists plus more Hip UPS and Leg raises, I also did some hip flexors with bands.
I can certainly tell I've been sick with a chest cold the past week and a half. I am so glad to finally be feeling better.
Planning to get some good sunshine Vitamin D later today!!
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"In him was life, and that life was the light of men." – John 1:4. Earlier this morning I was playing a few hymns at my piano, and stumbled across this ancient hymn by Ambrose of Milan, 340-397.
O Splendor of God's glory bright,
From light eternal bringing light,
Thou light of light, light's living Spring,
True Day, all days illumining:
Come, very Sun of heaven's love,
In lasting radiance from above,
And pour the Holy Spirit's ray
On all we think or do today.
And now to thee our prayers ascend,
O Father, glorious without end;
We plead with sovereign grace for pow'r
To conquer in temptation's hour.
Confirm our will to do the right,
And keep our hearts from envy's blight;
Let faith her eager fires renew,
And hate the false, and love the true.
O joyful be the passing day
With thoughts as pure as morning's ray,
With faith like noontide shining bright,
Our souls unshadowed by the night.
Dawn's glory gilds the earth and skies,
Let him, our perfect Morn, arise,
The Work in God the Father one,
The Father imaged in the Son.
His hymn was set to WINCHESTER NEW, which I assume was a new version of WINCHESTER in Hamburg back in 1690 when it was included in the Musikalisches Handbuch.
Tunes may come and go, lyrics may be translated from 4th century Latin to 20th century English, but the light of Christ shines through the ages. Pray that I will increasingly reflect Jesus' glory while I'm raising support here in Chattanooga, and when I reach Kiev.


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Allows JUnit-format test results to be published. Plugin Information View JUnit on the plugin site for more information. Older versions of this plugin may not be safe to use. Please review the following warnings before using an older version:
Plugin Information
View JUnit on the plugin site for more information.
Older versions of this plugin may not be safe to use. Please review the following warnings before using an older version:
This functionality was part of the Jenkins Core until it was split out to this plugin in version in 1.577.
The JUnit publisher is configured at the job level by adding a Publish JUnit test result report post build action. The configuration parameters include:
- Test report XMLs: Specify the path to JUnit XML files in the Ant glob syntax, such as
**/build/test-reports/*.xml. Be sure not to include any non-report files into this pattern. You can specify multiple patterns of files separated by commas. The base directory of the fileset is the workspace root.
- Retain long standard output/error: If checked, any standard output or error from a test suite will be retained in the test results after the build completes. (This refers only to additional messages printed to console, not to a failure stack trace). Such output is always kept if the test failed, but by default lengthy output from passing tests is truncated to save space. Check this option if you need to see every log message from even passing tests, but beware that Jenkins's memory consumption can substantially increase as a result, even if you never look at the test results!
- Health report amplification factor: The amplification factor to apply to test failures when computing the test result contribution to the build health score. The default factor is 1.0. A factor of 0.0 will disable the test result contribution to build health score, and, as an example, a factor of 0.5 means that 10% of tests failing will score 95% health. The factor is persisted with the build results, so changes will only be reflected in new builds.
- Allow empty results: If checked, the default behavior of failing a build on missing test result files or empty test results is changed to not affect the status of the build. Please note that this setting make it harder to spot misconfigured jobs or build failures where the test tool does not exit with an error code when not producing test report files.
Version 1.28 (May 14 2019)
This plugin now requires Jenkins 2.138.4 or newer.
- JENKINS-31660 - Do not load attempt to load test history for skipped tests. This fixes some cases where a
StackOverflowErrorwas being thrown.
- JENKINS-39203 - Use a new API provided by Pipeline API Plugin version 2.34 to identify the
junitstep as the source of an unstable build when tests fail.
- Note: In order for stage-related results to be visualized differently in Blue Ocean, you must update Pipeline: Graph Analysis Plugin to version 1.10 or newer.
Version 1.27 (Feb 8 2019)
- JENKINS-42438 - Correctly report test duration for classes.
- PR 114 - If a skipped test does not have an explicit message, compute one using the available information in the XML document.
Version 1.26.1 (Sep 25 2018)
- Fix an error causing
NullPointerExceptionto be thrown in version 1.26 of this plugin.
Version 1.26 (Sep 25 2018)
Version 1.25 (Sep 12 2018)
- JENKINS-53365 - Fix plugin dependencies
Version 1.24 (Feb 5 2018)
Version 1.23 (Nov 27 2017)
- JENKINS-48178 - Set run result in
junitstep rather than
- JENKINS-48196 - Remove redundant
parallelbranch names from
CaseResultdisplay name when appropriate.
Version 1.22.2 (Nov 15 2017)
- JENKINS-48020 - Get rid of warnings spam in logs and add stage info to failed tests list.
Version 1.22.1 (Nov 14 2017)
- Fixing
junitstep on masters without
Version 1.22 (Nov 14 2017)
- JENKINS-37598 - Fix aggregation issues for multiple files containing cases for the same suite
- JENKINS-27395 - Distinguish test reports filed in different stages and parallel branches in Pipeline.
- PR #84 - Prevent unsafe cast to
- PR #82 - Enable population of
errorDetailsfor unit testing purposes
Version 1.21 (Aug 4 2017)
- PR #65: Do not register
XMLEntityResolveras a global extension
- PR #69: Fix a file descriptor leak
- PR #71: Expose test data publicly
- PR #77: Improve test results table readability
Version 1.20 (Feb 13 2017)
- JENKINS-41134 Incorrect reporting of multiple test results in some cases using Pipeline.
- JENKINS-29736 Incorrect vertical axis values in test duration graph.
Version 1.19 (Oct 17 2016)
- JENKINS-32148 Highlight test result lines on hover.
- PR #49 Do not bury 'AllowEmptyResults' configuration option in Advanced.
- PR #56 Add '<' and '>' as unsafe URI characters.
Version 1.18 (Aug 08 2016; 1.16 & 1.17 were botched)
- Symbol added in 1.15 did not work in Jenkins 1.x.
Version 1.15 (Jul 12 2016)
- Integrate
Version 1.14 (Jul 5 2016)
- JENKINS-28784 make
TestDataPublisherwork in Pipeline.
- PR #46 Option to cap, or at least log, number of iterations of AbstractTestResultAction.buildDataSet.
- PR #45 Prevent wrapping for test name table cell.
Version 1.13 (May 1 2016)
- JENKINS-34407 Parse time correctly in SuiteResult.
Version 1.12 (Apr 20 2016)
- PR #36 Resolve occurrences of Sonar rule "UselessParenthesesCheck - Useless parentheses around expressions should be removed to prevent any misunderstanding" (see this)
- PR #35 Testsuite duration may be parsed from time attr.
- JENKINS-33343 Upgrade to parent POM 2.x
Version 1.11 (Feb 25 2016)
- Testsuite duration can be retrieved from its time attribute if it exists
- Remove the glitch symbol in the JUnitResultArchiver configuration
Version 1.10 (Dec 10 2015)
- JENKINS-12815 Added Job Configuration Option allowing to NOT fail JUnit Report publish when no xml report files
- PR #23 Remove ambiguity between empty and unreadable files
- PR #24 Add API allowing to access passed and skipped tests
Version 1.9 (Sep 3 2015)
- Export TestActions on the TestObject to make them accessible via the REST API
- JENKINS-24352 JUnit test result table wrapping duration text
Version 1.8 (Jul 29 2015)
- JENKINS-29613 Failure summary jumps to the top of the page when expanded/collapsed.
Version 1.7 (Jul 17 2015)
- JENKINS-29383 Failure summary does not work when special chars are present in path. Introduced JENKINS-29613.
Version 1.6 (May 01 2015)
- JENKINS-26077 Duplicated result links when using the xUnit plugin.
- JENKINS-27974 Unusable URL produced when
classnamefield in results was empty.
Version 1.5 (Mar 11 2015)
- Trim stdio even on failing tests, just to a 100× larger cutoff.
- Diagnostics for an infinite loop.
- Corrected help text.
- Japanese translation edits.
Version 1.4 (Feb 04 2015)
- NPE not known to affect actual usage but blocking tests of JENKINS-25446.
Version 1.3 (Dec 03 2014) (requires 1.580.1+)
- JENKINS-25573 Health score factor did not work.
- Repeated archiving fix in 1.2-beta-2 did not work on slaves.
- JENKINS-24580 Older and newer links were swapped in the display.
Version 1.2 (Nov 06 2014)
- JENKINS-24006 Failed to save health scale factor.
Version 1.2-beta-4 (Nov 04 2014)
- JENKINS-25375 Restore deprecated method override for binary compatibility.
Version 1.2-beta-3 (Oct 25 2014)
- Moving a forgotten file from core.
- JENKINS-25280 Added
fullDisplayNameneeded by Cucumber Test Result Plugin.
Version 1.2-beta-2 (Oct 20 2014)
- Permit the archive step to be run multiple times on the same build, aggregating results. (Applicable from workflows, not from normal usage as a publisher in a freestyle project.)
- Some configuration fields could not be set in 1.2-beta-1.
- Typos in some text, and German localization fixes.
- Do not show form validation errors when used from a non-freestyle context.
- Ignore a noisy AccessDeniedException when listing jobs.
Version 1.2-beta-1 (Aug 25 2014)
- JENKINS-23713 Taking advantage of APIs in 1.577+.
Version 1.1 (Aug 25 2014)
- Marked as dependent on 1.577, so 1.575/1.576 users should not install it.
Version 1.0 (Aug 11 2014)
Initial version after split.
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I would like to request to have a checkbox for allowing missing reports. Some of my projects do not have unit tests and are not planing to.
However due to the limitation of this plugin, I cannot use it on those projects.
I had to revert back to use html publisher to publish my test reports in order to allow the build to pass.
Removing the plugin on the projects that do not require unit test is a no go for me as well since we are using templates with Jenkins Job Builder.
Having different template for projects with and without unit tests would be harder to maintain.
Michael Loo
Two of us worked out pretty much identical solutions. This was merged in from Pull Request #28. It will propagate soon, as testing proceeds.
We have multiple JUnit XML files that we would like to display separate graphs for rather than having them aggregated into one. Is this possible, could you add this feature?
In my current hudson configuration Test Result Trends showing as below graph (x-axis:Build ID and y-axis:Count of test cases).
Now I have a requirement where in x-axis should have Build-date. For this where I need to the change?
Please someone help in this
We re using junit plugin for publishing xml reports for our test jobs. Do we have any option to give variable in TestReportXML's instead of giving relative path/ full path. We have a jenkins variable where we define the path we want publish the report in that path instead of harcoding it.
I get errors related to JUnit in the log for the latest version JUnit 1.9 with jenkins 1.629 :java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: hudson/maven/MavenBuild
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.junitrealtimetestreporter.RealtimeTestResultAction.getProject(RealtimeTestResultAction.java:190)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.junitrealtimetestreporter.RealtimeTestResultAction.getConfig(RealtimeTestResultAction.java:198)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.junitrealtimetestreporter.Attacher.isApplicable(Attacher.java:61)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.junitrealtimetestreporter.Attacher.onStarted(Attacher.java:46)
at hudson.model.listeners.RunListener.fireStarted(RunListener.java:215)
at hudson.model.Run.execute(Run.java:1737)
at com.tikal.jenkins.plugins.multijob.MultiJobBuild.run(MultiJobBuild.java:73)
at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:98)
at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:408)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: hudson.maven.MavenBuild
at jenkins.util.AntClassLoader.findClassInComponents(AntClassLoader.java:1376)
at jenkins.util.AntClassLoader.findClass(AntClassLoader.java:1326)
at jenkins.util.AntClassLoader.loadClass(AntClassLoader.java:1079)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
... 9 more
I think it might be related to a problem I'm having where my builds can't be read from disk anymore
I've re-opened an issue on this. Please check out Jira Issue JENKINS-22747 and vote it up.
Could I receive some average estimate on the complexity of the following feature (and any starting point for development): we need to publish multiple reports filtered by package/class names.
The reason is - many teams own different packages from the automation tests and currently we have multiple jenkins jobs (above 15) for the different teams so to have separate reports.
We are willing to offer assistance (under guidance) for adding this feature.
The "Publish JUnit test result report" Post-build step still fails if there are no generated JUnit xml output files.
ERROR: Publisher hudson.tasks.junit.JUnitResultArchiver aborted due to exception hudson.AbortException: No test report files were found. Configuration error?
Can a configuration be added to make this failure optional? The Cobertura Reporting plugin does this.
Re-opened Issue JENKINS-22747 to track this
Hi all,
I have a request/suggestion to extend the test analysis logging capabilities of jenkins.
I have a jenkins job which runs tests on a daily basis (and publishes jUnit reports for them). A lot of these tests are failing; for most of them, the fix for the issue is out of our control (needs to be provided by a third party), which is why they've been failing for quite some time.
Most of these failures were analysed at the time they occurred for the first time. However, since that's been a while ago, we tend to forget what the analysis was (if any, since some failures are still not analyzed yet).
This means we have to repeat the analysis work, which is wasted effort.
I know jenkins allows you to go back to the first time the failure occurred, and check if there's a "description" provided for the test in that run, but that approach feels cumbersome when iterating over multiple failures.
So it would seem really nice to me if there was an overview in which we could persistently document a failing test, to make it clear it has been analysed, and what the analysis is.
E.g, on the 'test results' page, there's a table for the failed tests, listing test name, duration, and age. Maybe a "failure analysis" column could be added there? If a test is failing (as reported by junit), jenkins could check if the test was also failing in the previous build, and if it was, copy the text in the "failure analysis" field. The user would have the option to manually populate/overwrite this field (serving as info for users, as well as for future runs).
I'm wondering if other users have felt the need for similar functionality, and/or if such a plugin exists already (I searched for about 1h, but couldn't find one)?
Hi all,
I have a request/suggestion to extend the test analysis logging capabilities of jenkins.
I have a jenkins job which runs tests on a daily basis (and publishes jUnit reports for them). A lot of these tests are failing; for most of them, the fix for the issue is out of our control (needs to be provided by a third party), which is why they've been failing for quite some time.
Most of these failures were analysed at the time they occurred for the first time. However, since that's been a while ago, we tend to forget what the analysis was (if any, since some failures are still not analyzed yet).
This means we have to repeat the analysis work, which is wasted effort.
I know jenkins allows you to go back to the first time the failure occurred, and check if there's a "description" provided for the test in that run, but that approach feels cumbersome when iterating over multiple failures.
So it would seem really nice to me if there was an overview in which we could persistently document a failing test, to make it clear it has been analysed, and what the analysis is.
E.g, on the 'test results' page, there's a table for the failed tests, listing test name, duration, and age. Maybe a "failure analysis" column could be added there? If a test is failing (as reported by junit), jenkins could check if the test was also failing in the previous build, and if it was, copy the text in the "failure analysis" field. The user would have the option to manually populate/overwrite this field (serving as info for users, as well as for future runs).
I'm wondering if other users have felt the need for similar functionality, and/or if such a plugin exists already (I searched for about 1h, but couldn't find one)?
I am running Jenkins on one server which needs to be taken away, so I need to move Jenkins on another server. Jenkins folder is on a shared drive, so I am able to run it from the new server without problems. Also, the records folder for the jenkins jobs is now shared hence I can see all the jobs / builds I've run in the past from the new server instance. However, Jenkins doesn't show the test results graph in the Job's main page. I have all the runs, I can select any of them and see its test results, but I don't see the graph in the home page.
Is there a way to make Jenkins JUnit plug-in regenerate the data to show the graph from those builds? Or does the plug-in save the information to generate the graph somewhere on the local machine where the server runs?
Best Regards
I'm seeing the same issue, we have projects that Publish jUnit results and display the graph and others that don't. I've reviewed the configs for both and haven't found any obvious differences.
For me it was caused by always having failing builds https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-40103, one I had a successful build, the trend chart appeared.
Thanks for this great plugin!!
I am using xUnit plugin and JUnit component.
I can see multiple "Latest Test Result" links,along with Multiple "Test Result Trend" graphs.
Also,the graphs have no data,where as the test cases data can be seen by clicking on the "Latest Test Result" link.
Also,the "Test Result Trend" has always the latest build number only and is always empty.
I am assigning build number to my jobs via a groovy script(so that all my jobs can share unique build numbers across jenkins),and I feel the same causes the graphs to have the only the latest build number,and thus the blank "Test Result Trend" graph.
The Test results however can be easily used/consumed by other plugins like "tests results analyser"
I have a couple of questions about the Junit plugin.
- Can I enable it to read customs test results like "Ignored", "Pending" that I want to define
- Once, read, will I be able to parse and plot those result types in a junit graph?
- Is there a way for the junit plugin to be a little more smart about tracking the result trend of test cases by name rather than count. For eg. In build 1 I have tc-01, tc-02 passed, in build 2, i have tc-02 and tc-03 (newly added) pass but tc-01 fail. I want the graph to incrementally stack newly discovered test cases.
Can this or other plugins do this, if not what are my options
Hi all:
Any ideas on the above?
We are facing a problem with Angular with Karma Project build automation using jenkins. Following are the steps.
- Unit Testing using Karma with Jasmine
- When All the specs in Karma is success then only the project will build and deploy
- When one spec is failure then it will stop the the build.
Kindly help to solve the issue.
Currently Build step 'Publish JUnit test result report' changes build result to UNSTABLE (there is a failed test) with the next options:
- Health report amplification factor = 0.0
- Allow empty results
How can I disable updating build results by the plugin?
Thanks in advance!
We're having a weird behavior wherein the entire standard output of a test class appears in every test fail page. Is this expected?
We have the Junit reporting setup to read from our XML file. The order of our XML is being modified by this plug in! The tests usually have a suffix which is the order they are performed in. (e.g. test_checkbox_001 , test_boxIsNowOpen_002).
We have the same order in our XML file, but the parser for this tool will somehow parse and display the results rearranged. Is there a way to over-write the default ordering of the tests the results are displayed in?
Please advise,
When can i download "FailureAnalysisPlugin" to analyze test results for JUnits ?
I am using junit plugin to publish my result. Junit marks the build as unstable in case of failures. But for my use case I want to mark the build as failed. For that I am using healthScaleFactor=100. But that doesn't work.
Any thoughts? Thanks.
And I am not sure why my name shows as "IRCbot run by Kohsuke"!
Wow I have the same problem...
Can anyone tell me how to publish multiple JUNIT reports via multiple xml files.
right now i have multiple xml files and want to publish different JUNIT report for those.
please let me know if that is possible.
Is there a way to exclude some folders from the junit glob pattern? I really need to convince the plugin not to look into some symlinked folders as it would duplicate collection.
Any idea why when test results are recorded from scripted pipelines , Graph is not shown? Is there way to fix this ?
Below is my code snippet,
step([$class: 'JUnitResultArchiver', testResults: 'nosetests.xml' ])
In the logs it shows test results are recorded, also shown in build summary.
Sometimes,test results show 'no failures', but it really has one failure. I don't know why this happened.
I want to install JUnit v1.21. Do you know where I can get the install package?
Can it be made that if the results file is missing the overall status for the test being run is a failure? I realise that there is Allow empty results but that shouldn't mask a test run that fails so badly that it doesn't even produce a results file.
Is there a possibility to have multiple junit reports for same job.
Example For set of tests, I can have total 89, failed 5, skipped 0
and for second set of tests, I can have total 346, failed 6, skipped 5


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Tyson was gone Friday night, leaving me to these two little buggers.
And...it was easy. Sure, I'd already been with them all day. And that is exhausting. But a year ago-heck, even a few months ago-I would have been cringing and dreading all day (all week) the fact that I was going to be flying solo for the evening.
(Wut? You used to dread being with us? Us?!?)
Plunk 'em in a tub after dinner (which, okay, was pizza) (DELICIOUS pizza) (they mostly ate fruit WHO ARE THESE KIDS), let 'em run around for a little bit wearing only their diapers, toss 'em in a crib with a pacifier and a story, annnnnddddd done. Now that they go to sleep on their own (and more or less stay that way), it's almost too easy. I mean, not too easy (hahaha, like I got anything done while they were awake! The kitchen, high chairs, bathroom, and living room were all waiting for a good cleaning/pick-up/hose down after I put them in bed), but, y'know. Relatively speaking, it was easy.
I can't emphasize enough how much I used to dread going it alone in the evening after already being with them all the livelong day. And now I meet it with a shrug and a life-as-usual grin. (Good thing, too, since Tyson will be working Wednesday and Thursday evenings all summer.)
(Caden I'm CRYING I'm laughing so hard!)
I would also like to point out the SPANKING CLEANESS of the bathtub. I wore actual rubber gloves and cleaned it with actual bathroom scrubbing soap and I even actually scoured down the little ledges and shelves and everything on Friday. I think the only other time this bathtub has been cleaned since we moved in (oh...almost four years ago) was February 2014, after these two were born and my parents and Tyson's parents cleaned everything before we came home from the hospital. I'm not quite sure where this fit of housewifely cleanliness came from. You can be assured that it won't happen again until at least 2018.


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Dinner Plate
Signed to base. Purchased from eBay by Adam Sutherland
"This plate brings together the maverick creative - Outsider artist Scottie Wilson - and one of the UK's most loved and mainstream cultural landmarks, Royal Worcester. I particularly enjoy the complexity of this collaboration: Wilson, the celebrated and feted Outsider (a contradiction in terms) and Worcester, the very image of establishment culture, trying to get hip in the 60's. It is interesting to note this collaboration is not referenced on the Royal Worcester Museum website."
Adam Sutherland
None- good condition
Scottie Wilson was discovered during the 1940's enthusiasm for folk art, alongside other notables such as Alfred Wallis. Wilson was represented by the gallery Gimpel Fils and stories of his eccentricity in relation to the art market are legion. It would be fair to say he never really understood the art market or his popularity within it.
These designs for Worcester are stylistically challenged and not representative of Wilson's best work. He also painted directly onto ceramic shapes, but these are similarly unsatisfying, appearing simply decorative and losing the intensity of his paper doodles. He was reluctant to release work and provided the minimum required, hence Worcester had to work with a single drawing, altering size and configuration of the design.
For the Collection the plate is of interest to the collection as it documents the initial wave of interest in, and commercialisation of, the alternative form of creative expression now referred to as Outsider or folk art, which Wilson embodies. Folk art is of particular interest to Grizedale Arts with many artists exploring this area and long standing collaborations with folk artists such as Peter Hodgson (also represented in the Collection).
"I'm listening to classical music one day - Mendelssohn - when all of a sudden I dipped the bulldog pen into a bottle of ink and started drawing - doodling I suppose you'd call it - on the cardboard tabletop. I don't know why. I just did. In a couple of days - I worked almost ceaselessly - the whole of the tabletop was covered with little faces and designs. The pen seemed to make me draw, and then images, the faces and designs just flowed out. I couldn't stop - I've never stopped since that day." Scottie Wilson
Scottie Wilson, born Louis Freeman, (1891- 1972) was perhaps unsurprisingly Scottish, originating from Glasgow. After serving in the First World War he emigrated to Canada where, for many years, ran a second hand shop in Montreal, discovering his particular ability for drawing or doodling on scraps of paper which became highly desirable and sold through the 'diabolically cluttered office' of the Toronto based art dealer Duncan Douglas. Later in his career Wilson refused to sell his originals. As with many 'Outsiders' the art market was clearly a puzzle which he attempted to manipulate with the low cunning of the eccentric.
Throughout his life Wilson complained of poverty but on his death his house was, predictably found to be stuffed with cash, a habit he shared with the avant-garde performance artist Ken Dodd and many others of the ilk. In Wilson's heyday Picasso and Dubuffet physically fought over who should have the right to buy one of his drawings, and critics and cultural theorists raved about his oeuvre.
Wilson was championed by Jazz surrealist eccentric George Melly who also wrote a book on Scottie.
It's All Writ Out for You: The Life and Work of Scottie Wilson, George Melly, Thames and Hudson Ltd, 1986, ISBN-10: 0500274096


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L'Mac?…. Oui!
December 30, 2007 § Leave a comment
I guess I should admit it – I've been sidetracked over the last few days. Yesterday was not a particularly eventful day, the only real feature I got was mouse picking for tiles (and that caused far too many headaches for what it's worth…) and sorta hit a dead end on what is the next logical step for progressing the engine.
Of course, when a decision needs to be made, what better place than to do it on IRC? The conversation went waaay off topic as always, and we started exchanging screenshots of our desktops (I did say way off topic) and my "real" desktop is my Mac not the Windows machine. So I restarted and thought… why can't Overload run on here?
The Mono project is an open source effort to create a .NET implementation that can run on all operating systems, not just Windows. I gave it a try and wow – 1 compile time error! Saddly, runtime was far worse. Firstly there's no Direct3D support on Macs, so the Direct3D renderer is already useless. Secondly, the System.Windows.Forms implementation in Mono is custom, not native to the OS. It also just didn't seem to work, so I've slightly moving things around inside Moebius, Overload's engine. Moebius now has now dependancies on SWF and all window management is handled by SDL. It is one more essential dependancy, but it's not huge – and SDL is quite easy to redistribute.
Renderers are now given a handle to window created by SDL and are in charge of attaching themselves to the Window. I haven't got Direct3D working with this yet, but it should be a pretty easy task. I wrote an OpenGL renderer and 6 hours later… here we are!
It's exciting to know that Overload is capable of supporting multiple platforms now, and I'm glad to see that I'm finally capable of managing a cross platform project. Now, just got to wait for Daniel to get back from IOWA – and we can start some real development!
Control Freaks
December 28, 2007 § Leave a comment
Whew, what a fun day this has been! I got side-tracked from doing some useful work and spent time refactoring a bit of the Engine and generally tidying things up for the first few hours this morning. The result is that everything now has XML documentation, and I'm more happy with the structure of the engine (only minor moves). I started work on controllers as well. Now, controllers are not currently needed in the engine… but they will be! So please don't attack with that huge YAGNI stick, because we are, honest!
Being me, I wanted to make the most efficient implemantion possible, while also sticking to being as clear and reusable as possible. However, it's hard to just say "this is efficient" and "this isn't efficient" without some hard facts, as all good programmers know, so I sat down and wrote some profiling utilities. Moebius, the engine for Overload (which I may open source, who knows), now has a lovely profiling API for what I've needed so far.
A discussion over at GDNet started by myself about ways to implement this controller system gave a few ideas. So, I typed out some code of how I'd like the system to look, and then added the profiling API on top. Here's the code:
TestSubject subject = new TestSubject();
Profiler profiler = new Profiler();
LambdaIncrementerController lambdaController = new LambdaIncrementerController(delegate(float newValue) { subject.Value = newValue; }, delegate { return subject.Value; });
ProfileResults lambdaResults = profiler.Profile(delegate { lambdaController.Update(1); }, 1, 10000, 500, 5);
subject.Value = 0;
InterfaceController interfaceController = new InterfaceController(subject);
ProfileResults interfaceResults = profiler.Profile(delegate { interfaceController.Update(1); }, 1, 10000, 500, 5);
subject.Value = 0;
AttributeController attributeController = new AttributeController(subject, "Value");
ProfileResults attributeResults = profiler.Profile(delegate { attributeController.Update(1); }, 1, 10000, 500, 5);
The final system there utilizes reflection. By searching the "subject" for a property which has the ControllableAttribute, and it's ExposedName set to "Value." I have had prior experience with Reflection in .NET and I've never found it particularly speedy. This was reflected (ha! sorry…) in my profile results; the AttributeController was about 100 times slower than the other 2 – y'ouch!
I did get slightly more sidetracked though today… This sure is a case of YAGNI! I decided that it would be nice to include some graphics in this blog post, and thought a graph visualizing the profile results would be good. I don't have Excel though, nor the space to install it on this 5GB Windows partition, so I thought if I could get some SVG graph output, then I could just chuck it into Inkscape. The only thing I could find was a Ruby module, and I couldn't be bothered to install Ruby just for that, so I wrote my own SVG grapher (yea, cause that was faster than just downloading Ruby…)
So, here's the results of profiling the two potential candidates:
Pretty neat I think! But I'm still torn between which system I want to take. Both are as efficient as it's going to get (without exposing public fields instead of properties, but I'm not doing that) – and have there advantages and disadvantages. I think when I get round to writing specific controllers I'll just decide if it makes sense for a controller to control any arbitrary value, or if it is very reusable. KeyFrameController, would be a perfect time to use my lambda/anonymous methods, but FadeOutController would be a good time to use the interface controller pattern (with IFadeable).
Lost again…
December 26, 2007 § Leave a comment
Have just spent all day reading, coding, pulling hair out, deleting code, and starting again… but I can finally say that I'm getting somewhere! I decided that we're going to need some path-finding in the engine to perform user interaction intuitivly, and sat down to implement the A* algorithm. One thing I don't understand is why there seem to be about 5 different descriptions of the algorithm… Either way, I worked through it, and now thoroughly understand the algorithm's basics, and have a worked system. My algorithm has turned out this way:
- Create some holder lists. I have a list for all nodes, a priority queue for the open list, and a simple list for the closed list.
- Add the start to the open list. Standard step, push the start node onto the open list, with a priority of 0.
- Begin looping. Until the open list is empty
- Get the current node. Dequeue from the open list, which uses a min-heap to give the node with the lowest cost.
- Fetch all sucessors. Query the world with for all sucessor tiles (neighbours) around a point.
- For-each sucessor:
- Find a node. I find a node from my "all nodes" list that has this tile attached to it. Nodes are an adapter for tiles, and allow parenting. If it's not in the "all nodes" list, I create it and append it.
- Update the node. If this node is not on the open or closed list, and the cost of moving from the current node to this sucessor node is less than the original cost of this sucessor node, update the G & H values for the node, and change it's parent to the current node.
Seems to work a treat! I haven't done any profiling yet, currently I'm trying to reduce the current coupling between the world and tiles with generics to make this even more reusable (everyone hates class coupling!), but to be honest, this is not a realtime game, so I'm not sure it's essentially that this path finding is blazingly fast so I will leave optomization for now.
Here's a shot of the results of path finding, the orange path is the result of path finding, to the tile near the water. I updated the tileset slightly as well, and improved the alignment between tiles slightly – so hopefully it looks a bit more sechsey 🙂
(Another) New Beginning
December 25, 2007 § Leave a comment
I've settled on a project now, that is slightly more fun than Asteroids (although that's actually turned out to be a much more fun project than I originally anticipated!). Asteroids is on the "when-I'm-bored" pile now, and I might release the source to it a bit later. So, what's this new project? Well, I had a lot of designers giving some great ideas forward, but something that caught my eye was a project called "Overload", designed by Daniel. We're essentially going to be working on a computer version of a standard table-top mini game, but it will have (hopefully) a fair bit more game-play when we're complete.
One of the major reasons this grabbed me so much is because, somewhat ironically, I've never actually played a table top mini-game! However, me and Daniel played a pen & paper version over MSN – both printing out a grid and making counters, and communicating dice rolls over MSN.
As with usual tabletop games, you place your units (we have squads of units that move together) and then take turns moving units, or co-ordinating attacks. But we also have some nice twists in the game – weapons can blow up in your hands from excessive use, we have extra "phases" in each round – such as hacking computers, setting up artillery, calling in air strikes, which all sound cool to me! Stuff like this might be normal in tabletop games, but I like the idea of it, and it seems novel.
Now, on to some technical details. Daniel has said from the start that this should be a hexagonal-tile game and this sounds good to me. I've not done a hexagonal game before, so it will be a fresh challenge. I spent a bit of time doing some research on them – and more first naive implementation was, well… awful. But like they say: code one to throw away! So I found some great resources after a brief spell of Googling and turned up Amit's Game Programming Information, a site I regarded well for A* information, but also happens to have a great lot of information on hexagon based games.
A visualization of the co-ordinate system Overload uses.
That's the co-ordinate system I've decided on. It seems a natural system, and works well with standard formulas such as tile-to-tile distance, with these co-ordinates. To store this in the world I'm using a 2D jagged array, rather than a multidimensional array due to the performance implications. I know, it's premature optimization, but a jagged array is really no harder than a multidimensional array, so it seems worth it. As for the array mapping, here's what the above map looks like in memory:
The same map, but now visualized as it is stored in arrays.
Quite simple really, and mapping between array co-ordinates and to hexagonal co-ordinates is relatively simple (although did cause some scribbling on paper 🙂
ToHex(x, y) = { -ceil(x / 2.0) - y, floor(x / 2) - y }
ToArray(x, y) = { y - x, floor( (x - y) / 2.0 ) }
Also, I think the array representation looks quite similar to actual in-game look, so I'm using bitmaps to represent the maps at the moment, with different coloured pixels representing different tile types. No point inventing a file format just yet 🙂 I have got this rendering as well, which I'm quite happy about, because at least this means something is working! The rendering is a 2D-in-3D system, currently with a Direct3D9 implementation, but I've abstracted it out to work with hopefully any renderer.
Our first screenshot, woohoo!
Edit: 28/12/2007 – Fixed typo on the hexagon coordinates diagram, thanks Zao!
Obligatory "Hello, World!"
December 22, 2007 § Leave a comment
It's got to be done I'm afraid!
My name is Oliver Charles and I'm an undergraduate comp. sci. student at Lancaster University, UK. I've been interested in computer programming since the age of about 12, and took a major interest in graphics programming at about 15. I'm useless at completing projects, so while it would be nice to show some past work here – I sadly have nothing to show (and I can never keep a website for more than a few months :P).
Currently I'm trying to complete a game however – a dead basic one in fact. Asteroids! I could have wrote Asteroids years ago, but I never did – I got my interested in graphics programming and engine design, and never really did much actual game programming. Overtime this lead to me getting bored of programming, so I've decided to work on Asteroids. Of course, now that I've been doing this for a few years, I've built up experience – so I'll hopefully be sharing information about my engine and it's design on this blog, along with pictures when I'm ready 🙂
More (interesting) posts to come!


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