Tuesday, January 27, 2009
I’m happy to say that I’m going to be at three conferences this year. First, I’ll be speaking on Continuous Integration at the JAOO Developer Day in Copenhagen, Denmark. March 4th. I’ll be doing a similar talk a few days later at QCon London, March 11-13. Finally, I’ll be at at CITCON Europe in Paris [...]
Puppet or Capistrano – Use the Right Tool for the Job Puppet developer Andrew writes about when to use Puppet or Cap. He'd know. (tags: deployment sysadmin)
Localbuilder on GitHub | Morethanseven Pretty sweet sounding minimal CI server, written in Python. @jtf suggested I link this. (tags: ci scm)
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Integrity | The easy and fun automated continuous integration server Ickle Lickle Ruby CI server (tags: ci ruby rails) Adrian's Tech Blog: Non functional requirements – a tale of two cities Nice metaphor for NFR's. (Non Functional Requirements. In a previous incarnation of the software industry, it meant Not For Resale – promo packs of [...]
Domain Name Server records This isn't rocket science, but it's a nice tool to see who hosts a domain. I love seeing the gory details of who hosts a particular site. (tags: sysadmin security)
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
AnthillPro 3.6 Released – AnthillPro Blog Release 3.6. Healthy set of features. (tags: anthillpro) A Continuous Integration Tool is not a Build Platform – Renaissance Developer Joe makes a good point here. I think it's such failures to keep seperation between concerns that lead to some projects turning into such dependency hairballs. (tags: ci build)
Publishing build status via Twitter is a nice feature to have: there’s no change to the user behaviour required. People subscribe to the Twitter account for your project. CruiseControl committers PJ and JTF have been working on it. It’s in the trunk of the CruiseControl SVN repository. I have some Debian and RPM packages of [...]
Sonatype Blog » Maven Continuous Integration Best Practices And they say that I never post about Maven … (tags: build maven java ci) Ant Jetty Plugin – Jetty – Codehaus This is interesting. I can't tell if it's embedded Cargo or a totally standalone thing. If it means less angle brackets in your build, do [...]
Great news: we have a date for CITCON Europe – and it’s in Paris! What is CITCON? It’s a free Continuous Integration and Testing conference. If you’re a developer interested in how to better craft your code with tests, you’ll fit right in. If you’re a tester looking to automate tests more effectively, welcome. If [...]
Saturday, January 17, 2009
SANS Institute – The SANS Security Policy Project You asked to write a security policy? "The users must only used authorised blah blah blah .. except when given written permission blah blah blah blah." Hard work, especially when there's these handy templates from SANS. (tags: sysadmin security) Home – Chef – Opscode Open Source Wiki [...]
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