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In the past weeks, in order to explore new ways to improve DevOps people daily job introducing chatbots, I had a chance to evaluate and play with Hubot . It is an Open Source chat robot implemented by GitHub Inc. which is easy to program using simple scripts written in CoffeeScript and runs on Node.js . I started almost from scratch, being this my first production experience with Node.js and the first experience at all with CoffeeScript. In this post I am sharing just the basics to start implementing a personal Hubot. Prerequisites to follow this tutorial are Node.js and the npm package manager for JavaScript. Download and install the latest versions for your OS. In this post I am going to refer to Node.js 6.10.3 and npm 4.6.1. First of all you need to install the Hubot generator: npm install -g yo generator-hubot Then create the directory for your first Hubot: mkdir firstbot and generate the bot instance through the yeoman generator: cd firstbot  yo hubot At creat...

JGit is a Java library to programmatically do actions versus a local or remote Git repository. It is quite powerful, but it comes with an issue: when trying to connect to a remote repository it doesn't handle URL redirection. When you try to connect to a remote repo like in the example below (the connection attempt is to one of my repos in GutHub): String uri = "https://github.com/virtualramblas/publishtokafka-plugin.git"; String userName ="XXXXXXX" String password = "YYYYYYY" LsRemoteCommand remoteCommand = Git.lsRemoteRepository(); try {             Collection <Ref> refs =                     remoteCommand.setCredentialsProvider(new UsernamePasswordCredentialsProvider(userName, password))                     .setHeads(true)           ...