From the monthly archives:

July 2009

Cruise Interview with ThoughtWorks Studios

July 28, 2009

TW Studios peeps Chris Read and Andy Yates graciously agreed to have a chat with me about Cruise last Friday. We talked about some of the features in Cruise and why they matter, the difference between Cruise and your average development focussed CI server, and shot the breeze about the maturity of our industry:
It went [...]

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Cruise != CruiseControl

July 24, 2009

Newsflash: there are three versions of CruiseControl.

The Java One – which is called CruiseControl, or sometimes CruiseControl.java
The .NET One – which is called CruiseControl.NET, or just CruiseControl
The Ruby one – CruiseControl.rb, or sometimes just CC.rb.

If someone initiates a discussion about CruiseControl, it’s always smart to clarify exactly which version they mean.
To make things worse, all [...]

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Huge Discounts on Cruise from Thoughtworks

July 15, 2009

ThoughtWorks Studios released version 1.3 of Cruise, their Continuous Integration product last week. You can get a huge discount on it via this blog. (keep reading for more detail)

What’s new?

They’ve added the ability to run multiple agents on your enormous old-school build server.

They’ve shortened the feedback loop with custom email notifications based on your criteria

You [...]

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New Continuous Integration system

July 14, 2009

I got a mail a few weeks ago from Mr Hericus, inviting me to find out more about Zed Builds and Bugs Manager.

In his words:

We’re relatively new to the market (about 1 year out at this point), and our focus is total team integration. It’s not enough to simply integrate your software on a continuous [...]

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Story: Fan or Die

July 11, 2009

David Goh contributed this beauty:
Back in 1994 or so at my first job, we were building some train control system software. We had a series of mainframes that we were using to test the software on, which all lived in a small room with no extra airconditioning. The only point of transmission between the [...]

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Story: Wolf++ fixes the Deployment Process

July 9, 2009

The last of the top three stories for the Giveaway was this one from Wolf++. Enjoy!
My last gig I was hired on to be the build guy. On my first day I sat
shotgun to their deployment process. The manual process was as
follows.
1. Logon to the ‘build box’
2. Get latest
3. Open visual studio [...]

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What is a Maven POM?

July 8, 2009

Why I am asking about Maven POMs? I do know, honest. But I often read blog posts or articles about Maven and wonder about the language being used. There’s some very domain specific terms in use here. So I decided to offer some definitions for people starting out with Maven.

Today, we start with POMs. I [...]

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Story: Daniel’s Continuous Integration System

July 3, 2009

Daniel Spiewak gave us this great story for the Atlassian Giveaway. He’s earned a t-shirt. Have a good weekend, where-ever you are.

It was a dark and stormy night. No, actually it was a plesant summer day, but daylight lacks a certain dramatic flare which is so necessary for a good story, especially [...]

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Maven 2.2.0 is out

July 1, 2009

Lot of fixes and some new features. This is the week of new developer toys, isn’t it? It’s not over yet, either. My spies tell me something else is on the way.
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