Thursday, August 20, 2009
This anonymous user gets top points for offending the most people in this Atlassian Giveaway entry. I was tasked to evaluate continuous integration systems for my workplace so I tried CruiseControl, Hudson and Bamboo. CruiseControl was a pain in the ass to configure, and I couldn’t get it to work – so stuff that. Hudson [...]
I love Information Radiators. You can have all the Twitter plugins you like, but unless you have the updates on the wall, you’re missing something. Here’s a few examples: Green Screen: Martin Andrews just released this. It’s a Sinatra app, and looks like it works for Hudson – perhaps with some tweaking it’ll work elsewhere.[Ruby] [...]
We get things so ass-backwards. How do we get code from development team to the end user? I’ve written an article on this subject at InfoQ. I hope you like it.
The Build Doctor has been needing a proper doctor this week, so this post is going to be brief: Atlassian released Bamboo 2.3 this week, with better EC2 support. There’s also a new Grails plugin. Urbancode are doing a Webcast on ‘Build and Deployment automation for the lean economy’ – which should be interesting. I’m [...]
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Thanks to Daniel Spiewak for this great story from the Atlassian Giveaway. It was a dark and stormy night. No, actually it was a pleasant summer day, but daylight lacks a certain dramatic flare which is so necessary for a good story, especially a story about build systems. I was working as the semi-lead developer [...]
The last mile is where software becomes a production code, hairs turn grey, and a lot of pizza gets eaten. It’s the last place you want a wedge. Read more of my guest post at noop.nl – thanks to Jurgen Appello for the opportunity to spread the message. (image from dullhunk)
Thought the world had enough Continuous Integration servers? Guess again. The guys at GitHub just released their open source effort, called CI Joe. It follows the Unix model and will run any command that you give it. As you’d expect, it integrates well with GitHub, using Git hooks to trigger builds. They use Campfire obsessively [...]
Totally missed this in 2007. Thanks to Oscar Centeno for finding this in the archives.
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Hosted Continuous Integration is here. Run Code Run have announced support for private projects. What does this mean? They already build open source projects from GitHub for free – for an example see my own Build Rosetta Stone. Now, you can build a closed source project – which isn’t visible to the world via GitHub. [...]
Sun sell a Continuous Integration server. We should have seen that one coming. See Kohsuke Kawaguchi’s announcement. Looks like you buy it as an add-on to the GlassFish stack. Pricing is here. Looks like they’ll support a branch of Hudson, and not the open source releases. That’s not unexpected. Strategically, it seems like a good [...]
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