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No, it’s not me! It’s John Smart (aka @wakaleo); and he’s available for consulting and training in London for one week only in February. Here’s his pitch: John Ferguson Smart, author of the Java Power Tools book and well known technical author and speaker, will be in the UK for a short time in February. [...]
Here’s Tuesday’s links from My Twitter Stream. 14:22: @bitfield Such a good idea, they did it the second time. http://bit.ly/8TdHST 00:22: [Blog] Links for 2010-01-18 http://bit.ly/8Yv42f
Here’s Monday’s links from My Twitter Stream. 17:05: @builddoctor for extra control freakery try this – http://bit.ly/37OGO – use #svn repo as a #maven repo. (via @builtbyadam) 14:10: Lessons Learned: Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases non-events http://bit.ly/7eAhkL [CD for a tiny startup ... ]
Ant isn’t what the hip kids are using right now. But what if you have a hairball of it? Do you rip it out and replace it with something that is of the moment, like Buildr, or Gradle? Do you want to mess up your project while you do it? Or do you try and [...]
Build Refactoring: Refactoring is a nice term for making something a bit less crap without changing it’s behaviour. You can slowly refactor a build in the same way you can refactor code. I’ve seen several projects where developers have opted to bin the build and start from scratch. That doesn’t guarantee a better build than [...]
Agile Database deployment for Java and .NET (This post was originally hosted at www.dbdeploy.net) DbDeploy is an implementation of the ActiveRecord Migrations pattern. DbDeploy.NET is the .NET port of DebDeploy. Both DbDeploys are projects initiated by ThoughtWorks. ActiveRecord comes to us via DHH. Why would I use it? When you’re developing software that hasn’t been [...]
Here’s Friday’s links from My Twitter Stream. 10:15: How Fanboys See Operating Systems http://bit.ly/7ikPcQ 10:04: Does Automation make us less communicative? – Integrate Button Blog http://bit.ly/6sLCUn 00:42: [Blog] Links for 2010-01-14 http://bit.ly/58AhFc
Versioning the wrong things is an antipattern of software configuration management. A couple of years ago I wrote a blog post about the evil of using a version control as a filesystem, in response to a team member checking in ~250mb of binary crap into our fragile little Perforce server. Claudio Bezerra commented, and asked: [...]
Here’s Thursday’s links from My Twitter Stream. 20:17: Win Electric Cloud swag by tweeting this hashtag: #sparkbuild – See http://bit.ly/5vg3Ig 18:43: [Blog] SparkBuild – build optimisation http://bit.ly/5vg3Ig 13:35: Registration for AWS training in London now open: http://bit.ly/6YN4VF (via @cread) 00:42: [Blog] Links for 2010-01-13 http://bit.ly/8xvpSk
This is a guest post from Scott Castle of Electric Cloud. I’ve been wanting to get these guys on the blog for a while. Scott has 5 USB drives full of Electric Cloud software, videos, docs and more to give away. All you need to do is tweet the #sparkbuild hashtag, and 5 lucky people [...]
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