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Monthly Archives: June 2011

#LondonCI, July 20

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

After a great meeting with Gus Power (watch the video) this month, we’re all set for LondonCI on July 20. David Farley from LMAX will be sharing his experiences with Continuous Deployment. Dave knows a thing or two about the topic, having co-written ‘Continuous Delivery’. Meetup info here – don’t forget to register at Skills [...]

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DevOps – what the hell is it?

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

The guys at Urbancode[1], Accurev and Rally kindly asked me to do a talk on DevOps for their Agile Comes to You seminar. It felt like it needed to be a little different from usual. So I broke it up into 5 minute chunks and launched into each topic. I covered 3 conflicting ideas about [...]

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Vendor news, 27-06-2011

Monday, June 27, 2011

Press releases, digested. ThoughtWorks release an Agile ALM white paper [registration required]. I registered and read it; it’s aimed at your pointy-haired project management office boss. Electric Cloud have teamed up with VaraLogix [they're from Austin, TX] to do application deployment, extending the reach of Electric Commander. Everyone wants to be in this space now. [...]

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#LondonCI Videos

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

In April, we kicked off with Chris Read. In May, we had Paul Stack, Andy Parker, Tom Denley, Joe Schmezter [waiting for the video to be processed], and me. Tomorrow, we’ll be filming Gus Power talking about Continous Deployment in the last mile. Remember to register if you’d like to come …

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Simon Stewart on WebDriver’s build system

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

WebDriver creator Simon Stewart knows a thing or two about building code. So I was intrigued when he mentioned that he’d written a grammar for Rake, to enable building Java code. Replacing Ant with Rake has been a compelling idea for some years now. Until now I wasn’t convinced that you weren’t going to have [...]

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#LondonCI meetups, June and early July

Sunday, June 12, 2011

June’s meetup is this Wednesday, 15th of June (sorry about the short notice) and features Gus Power of Energized Work: This session will take a look at leveraging continuous integration techniques to deploy and operate software all the way to the end user, exploring some of the difficulties and gotchas along the way. Gus is [...]

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