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Monthly Archives: June 2010

Links for 2010-06-30

Here’s Wednesday’s links from My Twitter Stream. 06:24: Visualizing Build Processes « The Electric Cloud Blog http://blog.electric-cloud.com/2010/06/29/visualizing-build-processes/#

Going on a Cruise: ThoughtWorks Studios rebrands their CI server

CruiseControl was a fantastic brand for ThoughtWorks. You can understand why they decided to base the name for their new, commercially licensed Continuous Integration server on the old. That didn’t work out so well. The response to the confusion about the products has been interesting however: ThoughtWorks have renamed and reskinned the product. Out: Cruise. [...]

Team Build Doctor

It’s funny; you can almost correlate my going freelance announcement with the fall in posts on this blog. I can’t complain though; I’m fully booked, on work that I’m good at, with clients who are doing things that seem to matter. To stop the blog atrophying totally, I’m getting some help. The (soon-to-be) Mrs Build [...]

Silos are for Farmers: now online

Silos are for Farmers, my QCon London talk is online. The conference season this year managed to dovetail nicely with the birth of The Build Doctor Limited. This was nice in that I was doing a conference talk at the same time that I started my own company; evil in that I didn’t rehearse as [...]

Links for 2010-06-22

Here’s Tuesday’s links from My Twitter Stream. 21:27: Sailing down the Hudson with RVM – GIANT ROBOTS SMASHING INTO OTHER GIANT ROBOTS http://robots.thoughtbot.com/post/712609699/sailing-down-the-hudson-with-rvm 21:27: CloudShark Brings Wireshark to the Web – Packet Life http://packetlife.net/blog/2010/jun/22/cloudshark-brings-wireshark-web/ 21:26: Evan Bottcher » Blog Archive » DevOps Mind Map http://evan.bottch.com/2010/06/23/devops-mind-map/ 21:25: IllegalStateException: Fun with Javascript for Hudson http://illegalstateexception.blogspot.com/2010/05/fun-with-javascript-for-hudson.html 21:24: Better [...]

Should you move to Maven 2?

I’ve seen many a company try to migrate from Ant to Maven with varied success.  There is a change in mindset that has to come about when making the transition.  Here are some of the highlights. Standard Findings Monolithic build structure This is the first big shift in thinking.  Typical (obviously, not ALL) Ant projects [...]

Links for 2010-06-16

Here’s Wednesday’s links from My Twitter Stream. 21:55: Bamboo 2.6 Deep Dive: Automatically Managed Elastic Instances – Atlassian Dev Tools Blog http://blogs.atlassian.com/devtools/2010/06/bamboo-26-deep-dive-automatically-managed-elastic-instances.html 21:49: Subversion repository change notification: push vs pull | Hudson Labs http://www.hudson-labs.org/content/subversion-repository-change-notification-push-vs-pull 21:35: Continuous Integration that doesn’t fit in 10 Minutes – AnthillPro Blog http://www.anthillpro.com/blogs/anthillpro-blog/2010/06/16/continuous_integration_that_doesnt_fit_in_10_minutes.html

Hudson hit my Puppet with Cucumber

I felt I had to attend the next talk in the main lecture room, simply to find out what its title meant. Patrick Debois and Julian Simpson’s presentation was entitled Hudson hit my Puppet with a Cucumber … I think that’s some of our best work. (via UKUUG June newsletter)

Links for 2010-06-14

Here’s Monday’s links from My Twitter Stream. 20:01: Incomplete Thought: The DevOps Disconnect http://www.rationalsurvivability.com/blog/ [superb comments]

Links for 2010-06-07

Here’s Monday’s links from My Twitter Stream. 20:10: Project of the day: SSH daemon for EC2 Windows AMIs http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kohsuke/archive/2009/05/project_of_the.html [missing link for windows and hudson?] 08:21: Coins: search the data and help us analyse it guardian.co.uk http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/jun/04/coins-database-search [GU team built COINS search tool in 24 hours]