Tag Archives: windows

Quick Tip – Make Anything A Windows Service

Posted on September 15, 2011 by Richard Nichols

I recently had to get nginx running as a Windows service and I came across a little project called “winsw” (Windows Service Wrapper) which was created by Kohsuke Kawaguchi – creator of Hudson/Jenkins. Apparently he created it while at Sun for … Continue reading →

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Use Hudson (now Jenkins) to restart a Windows service…

Posted on January 21, 2011 by Richard Nichols

Here’s a quick tip – you can easily make Hudson restart a windows service, by using its “Windows Batch Command” build step in combination with the command line windows “net” command. Here’s an example of how we can get Hudson … Continue reading →

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Setting Up Memcached As A Windows Service

Posted on August 27, 2010 by Richard Nichols

Memcached is an in-memory, distributed key-value store for random pieces of application data. It is useful for clustering and distributed caching and it (and similar tools) are becoming an increasingly common feature of large Web-based apps. I don’t like Windows … Continue reading →

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1 Minute Guide – Installing Redmine on Windows

Posted on September 16, 2009 by Richard Nichols

Redmine is a fantastic Issue Tracking (defects and enhancements) web application written in Ruby on Rails. I’ve been using it for quite a while, and it’s a good looking, simple but powerful defect management tool with a bunch of value-add … Continue reading →

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