From the monthly archives:

July 2008

Continuous Integration – emphasis on tests not builds?

July 15, 2008

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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

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 to stop [...]

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Build status screen saver for Mac OS X

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.
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