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Monthly Archives: December 2008

links for 2008-12-30

Wednesday, December 31, 2008

London OpenSolaris User Group at OpenSolaris.org Open Solaris could be interesting. Soalris x86 was always a rock solid OS with crap hardware support. Now that Sun gave those muppets at SCO all that money to buy the device drivers, I want to give it another shot. (tags: unix) Comic: The Windows User I love writing [...]

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2008 in posts

Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Top posts on build-doctor.com, by traffic. January: Irradiating the whole team February: If I ever complain about traffic, ask me how it was in February 2008. A short news item was the most read article. March: Refactor your configuration file This one really seemed to strike a chord. April: The CruiseControl best practices Series May: [...]

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links for 2008-12-29

Tuesday, December 30, 2008

tattletail – alternative to bigvisiblecruise on my to-do list: check this out of svn and fire it up. I would ideally like something that draws objects on the screen without the aid of a browser (tags: ci)

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Comic: The Windows User

Monday, December 29, 2008

In 2008 I found out that some people still use Notepad.

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links for 2008-12-28

Monday, December 29, 2008

TeamCity Dev Blog: TeamCity 4.0.1 is released Shedload of issues have been resolved (tags: ci teamcity) Continuous Integration – The Benefits | Engineering Game Development … game CI part two … (tags: ci) Continuous Integration – Shaky Foundations | Engineering Game Development I'm interested in how CI is different in game development … here's part [...]

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CruiseControl Build Radiator

Sunday, December 28, 2008

Sudhindra Rao from ThoughtWorks has released a Build Radiator (Big Visible thing) for all the CruiseControls that support CCTray. I installed it tonight. Needed to install the rack and activerecord gems. It would be nice to see it wrap around if you have more than a few projects. Most teams would probably do fine with [...]

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links for 2008-12-24

Thursday, December 25, 2008

collect {thoughts}: Mashup your RSS Feeds with ruby + sinatra + pipe The original use case for this was mashing up RSS feeds from CI servers. Handy. (tags: ci)

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Season’s Greetings

Wednesday, December 24, 2008
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links for 2008-12-22

Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Pete W's idea book: Advanced NANT Techniques Nice use of a diff tool to do deployments of only the deltas. Not sure what happens for a file deletion. I'm quite fond of rsync for that. (tags: nant .net)

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Site admin – change to del.icio.us links

Monday, December 22, 2008

I just deactivated the del.icio.us plugin for WordPress and the Feedburner Link Splicer on this blog. In their place will be a daily post of interesting del.icio.us links. It seems simpler this way. Hang onto your hats. (image taken from *clairity’s* photostream)

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