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Monthly Archives: March 2010

Links for 2010-03-31

Here’s Wednesday’s links from My Twitter Stream. 22:11: [Blog] Is Maven agile? http://bit.ly/bCfKfI

Is Maven agile?

Is Maven agile? Here’s my half-assed reasons why: agile methodologies can uncover issues in your organisation. I’ve got a pet theory that Maven will do the same for your code.  Some build tools allow you to paper over the cracks of your code and tests.  Tests too slow?  Then parallelize them.  Code won’t compile cleanly?  [...]

Links for 2010-03-26

Here’s Friday’s links from My Twitter Stream. 18:18: [Blog] Supporting Multiple Environments – Part 2 http://bit.ly/9UP1VF 11:47: [Blog] UKUUG Spring Conference 2010 http://bit.ly/atQT3J

Supporting Multiple Environments – Part 2

(see part one of this series here) In this installment, I’m going to cover the four cheap-fast ways I’ve seen discussed to generate configuration for your application. Managing Configuration There are a few ways I’ve found or seen discussed over the years for managing the configuration portion of a deployment (local or otherwise).  I don’t [...]

UKUUG Spring Conference 2010

How Hudson hit Puppet with a Cucumber View more presentations from Patrick Debois. As I write this post I’m sat on the train back from the UKUUG Spring Conference Manchester, getting a fascinating insight into the world of asset finance sales from the passenger sitting opposite me. Highlights of the conference were: Spending time with [...]

Links for 2010-03-17

Here’s Wednesday’s links from My Twitter Stream. 21:25: [Blog] Supporting Multiple Environments http://bit.ly/9Yf83g

Supporting Multiple Environments

One of the longest running debates I’ve watched in the Maven community over the years, is how to best support different configurations for different deployment environments (where “deployment environment” means a QA environment or staging environment – anything other than a local developer build). Some people argue simplicity over the complexity of some of the [...]

Links for 2010-03-16

Here’s Tuesday’s links from My Twitter Stream. 08:20: Have an interesting #devops story to tell? Why don’t you submit yours for devopsdays 2010 US http://bit.ly/cfVCAH (via @patrickdebois) 06:57: sin.tigris.org http://bit.ly/aHK96u [Yet another CI server - based on SOAP?] 06:52: Accidental Simplicity: The Checklist Manifesto as Agile Primer http://bit.ly/bOXhmV [I've used checklists. It's pulling out the [...]

Links for 2010-03-15

Here’s Monday’s links from My Twitter Stream. 07:39: Before DevOps, Don’t You Need OpsOps? | Web Admin Blog http://bit.ly/bglZZu [@gdb_ has hit the nail on the head!]

ThoughtWorks UK are hiring Build Managers

Want to work with some of the best programmers that one can hire? TWUK are looking for people like me, but with a better accent! It’s all in the ad below. This is the gig that got me 2 very happy months’ work in San Francisco. And they don’t have a project in Hemel Hempstead [...]