links for 2009-01-05
Posted on by Julian SimpsonPuppet SVN Deploy definition | Carl's Rantings This could be big. DLS to abstract deploying software from subversion. Once it does tags, I'll be very interested. via @littleidea (tags: deployment)
Monthly Archives: January 2009
Continuous Integration Cage Fight: Team City
Posted on by Julian SimpsonSecond to last in the talk was Team City, presented by Yegor Yarko of JetBrains. They’ve done a very good job of the tool and used their position as developers of IntelliJ and Resharper to promote this product very cleverly: so I don’t think I need to do much introduction to the tool. Here’s the [...]
links for 2009-01-04
Posted on by Julian SimpsonThe Technical Blog of Paul Miles: How to Take Screenshots during Selenium Test Execution Nice to see the errors in your tests, isn't it? (tags: testing) YouDevise Developer blog – Recording VNC Session How to record a Selenium test run, via VNC (tags: testing) Work at the dining table: Catching relative url issues in rails [...]
Sticking plaster over a gaping wound
Posted on by Julian SimpsonAnother thing that I learned in 2008: the build manager can’t be responsible for ensuring the quality of the code that they build and deploy. We had QA’s but there were loads of little things to check: Were the release instructions accurate? Was there a rollback process? Did all the scripts actually work? I did [...]
links for 2009-01-03
Posted on by Julian SimpsonInfoQ: Keith Braithwaite, an Agile Skeptic Damn, he's good. Keith isn't afraid to call a fraud a fraud. He's not like that guy who wrote for Da Register, though: he's one of the most experienced Agile practitioners in this fair land that we call England. (tags: agile) A job, a mission, a career: all without [...]
links for 2009-01-02
Posted on by Julian SimpsonLocal Continuous Integration with Integrity | Morethanseven Lightweight CI for Python and Ruby teams (tags: ci) Cuberick: Distribute Your Software Just Like Ubuntu With Launchpad I don't mind making Debian packages, but this makes it trivial. Incredibly powerful way to distribute software and it's available to you. (tags: deployment packaging)
New Year Site Admin
Posted on by Julian SimpsonHappy new year! I have done some long-overdue admin work – silly things like upgrading WordPress plugins, etc. The Related Posts plugin has been replaced because it didn’t actually seem to work. Hopefully as I finish adding the right categories to pages, it’ll be useful. The Creative Commons license didn’t migrate over from Blogger. It [...]