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Monthly Archives: December 2007

Continuous Integration just got interesting

Friday, December 28, 2007

I used to describe CI as “cron with style”. I was trying to emphasise the value of simplicity in your CI implementation (no fancy stuff, just something that works) and pushing logic into the build, where you can hopefully handle it better. Time to kill that name anyway. Sorry Buzz. For a long time, CruiseControl [...]

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Irradiating the whole team

Friday, December 28, 2007

You want to check in? Is the CruiseControl build green? What you do mean, you don’t know? Everybody in the project room (and ideally, those people the project room) should know what is going on with the build. Broken Continuous Integration builds mean that the project can’t release working software. So to keep the team [...]

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Continuous Integration anti-patterns

Thursday, December 6, 2007

Author, CI Expert and great guy Paul Duval has written up some Continuous Integration Anti-Patterns at IBM developerWorks. Link (via the Disco Blog).

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On confusing Build and Deploy

Wednesday, December 5, 2007

We’ve been having a conversation at work about the different goals of build and deploy. I thought I’d share some of my response to a question “does it matter if you mix up build and deploy? Why don’t we use build tools like Ant to deploy with?”: To me, build is the place where you [...]

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