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Monthly Archives: September 2009

Clover plugin for Hudson

Saturday, September 26, 2009

The Atlassian guys emailed me a couple of days ago to tell me about their new Clover plugin for Hudson. What’s useful about it? You don’t need to write any Ant code to use Clover in your build – you install the plugin, enable it in your pointy-click Hudson configuration, and you’re off. You still [...]

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Continuous Integration is an attitude

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Question: How do we prevent integration pain? Answer: Continuous Integration. Well, duh. There’s no longer an excuse for integration pain. It’s been proven time and time again that the engineering practices of XP can work. Now we’re seeing the rise of a new issue: Continuous Indifference. We were probably always prone to mediating communication with [...]

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Ant Contrib: the power and the pain

Monday, September 21, 2009

I got a comment from Errno on my last post: “Everyone agrees that Ant Contrib means you’ve done something wrong.” why? is there any blog post/write-up describing this? thanks I don’t know of any write-up. So I’ll make one. There’s a reason why some tasks are in ant-contrib and not the Ant tool proper: they [...]

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Better Apache Ant Builds

Sunday, September 20, 2009

Abstract: We did two CITCON sessions here; Joe Schmetzer suggested a show-and-tell about tools to reduce Ant bloat, and Ivan Moore wanted a general session on improving the quality of Java builds in general. During the conference, the two sessions merged. My plan was to sit in and tweet smart-ass comments. As I had my [...]

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CITCON Europe 2009

Friday, September 18, 2009

I’ll sporadically be tweeting about the conference throughout the weekend. http://twitter.com/builddoctor

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Lots of Run Code Run news

Monday, September 7, 2009

I got a mail from Rob at RunCodeRun last week. Lots going on. Last night we pushed out our latest commercial plan that a lot of folks had been asking for – a $19 a month ‘basic’ plan with support for 3 private projects. Previously our lowest cost plan was $75 a month, so we [...]

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the industries first and only open-source continuous integration solution

Saturday, September 5, 2009

from http://www.coveros.com/research/research_stack.php: SecureCI™ is the industries first and only open-source continuous integration solution. By leveraging best of class open source products for source code control, build management, automated testing, security analysis, defect tracking, and project management, Coveros is able to provide a turn key solution for those who wish to begin leveraging the benefits of [...]

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Linkage, August 3

Thursday, September 3, 2009

There’s been some tabs festering on my browser for a while. Here, you have them. Staycation this year was Cornwall. I can strongly recommend the Porthcurno Telegraph Museum. This Neal Stevenson Wired article is a fascinating read on the subject. Martin Fowler writes on Feature Branches PJ writes about Martin’s writing. Carlos writes about the [...]

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