From the monthly archives:

June 2008

How to set the filetype in Vim when the extension doesn’t match

June 4, 2008

Apparently there’s a Vi gang sign

(image taken from Kandinsky’s photostream)

Over 10 years ago, I had a choice to make: Emacs or Vi. I started with Emacs in my first week as a systems administrator. It made Olof, the lead developer very happy. But it wasn’t to be. Emacs was only installed [...]

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Ant Best Practices: Keep the build process self-contained

June 3, 2008

(image taken from Heldr’s photostream)
Welcome back to the Ant Best Practices series. All the other posts are here, if you’ve just joined us.
Today, it’s about keeping the build process self contained. What does this mean?
When you check a project out and build it for the first time, it should take a few minutes [...]

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CruiseControl (the Java one) is still more popular than Hudson

June 2, 2008

Eric Lefevre just posted an analysis on download stats for both CI tools. Interesting.
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Exit Planet TW (you can subscribe via my RSS feed to keep reading)

June 1, 2008

(image taken from Ade’s photostream – which is appropriate as he made the Planet TW aggregator what it is today)
The Build Doctor has been up and running for almost 6 months now. I don’t have a target for subscriber numbers or page view at the moment. This blog is about creating some useful [...]

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