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Monthly Archives: February 2009

links for 2009-02-22

Monday, February 23, 2009

Programmer Joe » The hard part of continuous deployment More continuous deployment – this time for an MMO game. (tags: ci deployment) Jesse Ruderman » Continuous integration at Mozilla CI at Mozilla – fascinating. Lovely Charts | Free online diagramming application This beats the crap outta MS Office for me. We need an API! (tags: [...]

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.NET: Who cares?

Friday, February 20, 2009

No more .NET articles on this blog, unless something really interesting happens. Most of the .NET posts are there by accident; I accidentally ended up doing nothing but .NET build and release management work. It’s just not likely that there’s a great deal of .NET developers who: care about deployment and CI matters want to [...]

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Escape: a configuration web app

Friday, February 13, 2009

Tracking configuration is hard. The real state of your organisation’s system is a fluid, changing thing. Servers are added. Servers die. Services grow, multiply and experience lemming-like extinctions. Tracking all these facts in a version control system really is like pulling teeth some days. The cycles of infrastructure rarely match release cycles for software; and [...]

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News, February 12 2009

Friday, February 13, 2009

There’s a new job. Not quite London, but on the South coast. It comes via Jon Anning who is moving on (thanks Jon!). Get in touch (closing date is Feb 16) and I’ll send the details. Post frequency of this blog ( a vital sign) is very low. Why?The Build Doctor is being a nurse [...]

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CI Survey: CruiseControl and Hudson popular

Monday, February 2, 2009

Software engineering student Georg Fleischer has done a survey of the CI market. Highlights: 75% of people surveyed were using open source CI tools CruiseControl was the most cited tool (by just over a third of respondents) Then Hudson (a slightly smaller number) I lthink that CI adoption will increase, and there will still be [...]

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links for 2009-01-31

Sunday, February 1, 2009

A Universal WHOIS Client for Ruby | Matt Lightner's Blog While developing the order form for Site5.com, I discovered that there was no really good solution for querying the WHOIS records for an arbitrary domain name and parsing the output into meaningful, standardized fields. (tags: ruby) Configuration Management remixed: Introducing Carpet | Agile Web Operations [...]

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