From the monthly archives:

January 2008

deployment DSL’s

January 23, 2008

This blog has the coolest name that I have seen in a while. Chris Poirier talks about writing a DSL for deploying a system across many hosts. We need more of these. Link

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Easy way to set up a digital Information Radiator?

January 3, 2008

Rumour has it that a 32in digital picture frame will be unveiled at the CES 2008 show next week. I think this could be a great way to blast information around your project room. You’d probably want to render your info into jpeg image files. Link

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Is Ant support important?

January 3, 2008

Ola Bini asks if established tools matter – do you need to provide Ant support for your code?
My answer is “yes”. It does matter. Ant build files done well can be surprisingly cross-platform. I used to spend hours compiling code to run on Solaris systems. The make that shipped with Solaris [...]

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