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Monthly Archives: July 2008

Continuous Integration – emphasis on tests not builds?

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

(image taken from Jurvetson’s photostream) Eric Minick just wrote this post on how Continuous Integration is fixated on the act of building, and not testing. It’s interesting: he posits that we all talk about builds, and wrap our tests in builds, kick off builds to do deployments to QA environments, etc. when what really gives [...]

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Ant Best Practices: Use ZipFileSet

Sunday, July 13, 2008

(image taken from the superbly named MasochismTango’s photostream) Welcome to the lucky thirteenth edition of Ant Best Practices. You probably guessed this one: Use the ZipFileSet type when you make a zip file in Ant. This one slipped past me recently. We were working on a web project and the developers added a cache-busting feature [...]

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Build status screen saver for Mac OS X

Sunday, July 6, 2008

Carlos Villela has released a Mac OS X screen saver for CruiseControl (Ruby, Java or .NET, I think – there’s an XML interface that they all support). Really thoughtful idea. Link

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