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January 2009

2009 conference plans

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 on September [...]

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links for 2009-01-25

January 26, 2009

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)

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January 25, 2009

Localbuilder on GitHub | Morethanseven
Pretty sweet sounding minimal CI server, written in Python. @jtf suggested I link this.
(tags: ci scm)

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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 shrinkwrap software. [...]

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links for 2009-01-22

January 23, 2009

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)

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links for 2009-01-20

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)

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Twitter support for CruiseControl

January 19, 2009

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 [...]

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links for 2009-01-18

January 19, 2009

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 it.
(tags: ant [...]

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CITCON Europe 2009: September 18-19 – Paris, France.

January 18, 2009

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 you run a Continuous [...]

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links for 2009-01-16

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
Thanks to [...]

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