diff --git a/__init__.py b/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e69de29b
diff --git a/jenkins.sh b/jenkins.sh
index 1bce7766..4ad1c800 100755
--- a/jenkins.sh
+++ b/jenkins.sh
@@ -1,28 +1,31 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
-if [ -n "${VAR:-x}" ]; then
-  WORKSPACE=.
+#setup virtualenvironment 
+export VIRTUALENVWRAPPER_PYTHON=/usr/bin/python2.7
+if [ ! -d $HOME/.venvs ]; then
+  mkdir $HOME/.venvs
 fi
+export WORKON_HOME=$HOME/.venvs
+source /usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh
 
-echo $WORKSPACE
-PYENV_HOME=$WORKSPACE/.pyenv/
+#create the scientific python virtualenv and copy to provide qexec base
+mkvirtualenv --no-site-packages scientific_base
+workon scientific_base
+./ordered_pip.sh requirements_sci.txt
+deactivate
+#re-base qexec
+#rmvirtualenv qexec
+cpvirtualenv scientific_base qexec  
 
-#leaving the old build in place because it takes >20 minutes to compile everything
-  
-# Delete previously built virtualenv
-#if [ -d $PYENV_HOME ]; then
-#    rm -rf $PYENV_HOME
-#fi
-
-# Create virtualenv and install necessary packages
-virtualenv --no-site-packages $PYENV_HOME
-. $PYENV_HOME/bin/activate
-./ordered_pip.sh $WORKSPACE/requirements.txt
-./ordered_pip.sh $WORKSPACE/requirements_dev.txt
-cp /mnt/jenkins/host_settings.py ./
+workon qexec
+./ordered_pip.sh requirements.txt
+./ordered_pip.sh requirements_dev.txt
 
 #setup the local mongodb
 python dev_setup.py 
 
 #run all the tests in test
-nosetests
+nosetests --with-xcoverage --with-xunit --cover-package=myapp --cover-erase
+pylint -f parseable . | tee pylint.out
+
+deactivate
diff --git a/requirements_dev.txt b/requirements_dev.txt
index e353705a..a22d34ae 100644
--- a/requirements_dev.txt
+++ b/requirements_dev.txt
@@ -9,4 +9,6 @@ ipython==0.12
 # For unit tests
 nose==1.1.2
 unittest2==0.5.1
-requests==0.10.1
\ No newline at end of file
+requests==0.10.1
+nosexcover
+pylint
diff --git a/requirements_sci.txt b/requirements_sci.txt
index f69f77c4..4ed7d007 100644
--- a/requirements_sci.txt
+++ b/requirements_sci.txt
@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@ python-dateutil==1.5
 #core scientific python
 numpy==1.6.1
 scipy==0.10.0
-http://sourceforge.net/projects/matplotlib/files/matplotlib/matplotlib-1.1.0/matplotlib-1.1.0.tar.gz
+matplotlib==1.1.0
+#http://sourceforge.net/projects/matplotlib/files/matplotlib/matplotlib-1.1.0/matplotlib-1.1.0.tar.gz
 numexpr==2.0.1
 Cython==0.15.1
 tables==2.3.1