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Monthly Archives: October 2009

Presentation: Continuous Integration from the trenches

Friday, October 16, 2009

I presented this talk at QCon London in March this year. InfoQ just released the video here. How did it go? Fine. I did pitch it at too low a detail. This was partly because I’d stunned a group of managers into submission with the same talk. The attendees were really technically accomplished in this [...]

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Story: M-ANT-ven

Thursday, October 15, 2009

Thanks to Graeme Gillies for this funny anecdote from the Atlassian Giveaway. I love the fact that he persisted in nailing this. When I started at a company (which shall remain nameless) being the new (junior) guy I was made the “build guy” of one of their biggest projects to date. I quickly learnt that [...]

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Kohsuke Kawaguchi Hudson Webinar

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

I thought I was pretty good at guitar once. You only realise how much you have left to learn when you see someone who’s at the next level – and then you realise that they can kick your ass without breaking a sweat. Realising that you’re not as good as you thought you were can [...]

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Video: Jeffrey Fredrick Interview

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Last week we interviewed PJ. This week it’s JTF, or Jeffrey Fredrick. He’s one of the guys who maintained CruiseControl and co-founded the OIF (the organisation that brings you CITCON). He’s also the Technical Evangelist for Urbancode, who bring you Ant Hill Pro. My Flip cam called time on the interview by filling up at [...]

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Outsourcing Continuous Integration

Thursday, October 8, 2009

Outsourcing Continuous Integration isn’t a new idea, but we’re seeing more and more traction in the space. The headline news is: It’s certainly not for everyone. The space is going to get more and more interesting as cloud services increase. Not for everyone If you’re at all paranoid about security, you’re unlikely to want outsourced [...]

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Video: Paul Julius Interview

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

The main reason I cannot miss a single CITCON Europe: catching up with all my friends, old and new. Paul Julius and I decided to have a formal catch up on camera. Less formal conversation was had, too.

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AntHill Pro 3.7 released

Monday, October 5, 2009

Urbancode just released AntHillPro 3.7. What’s new? They just added a boatload of static analysis tools, including my favourites, Checkstyle and FindBugs. There’s also some serious security analysis tools in there. This stuff does catch errors. You can now write plug-ins via a handy API. They’re also going to eat their own dogfood. Mmm, tasty [...]

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Continuous Deployment Video – Tim Fitz

Sunday, October 4, 2009

Related video from CITCON coming soon

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