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Conferences: XP2012 is in Neo Technology’s hometown of Malmo, Sweden [link] The BCS CMSG conference program is also out [link] VMWare sent a reminder for VMWare Forum 2012 next week [link] News: Rackspace are blinging up their cloud product, and adding cloud databases [link] Cloudbees are doing a webinaar on ALM for PAAS [link]
Puppet is amazing. It changed my career (thanks to Luke , and before him Mark). However, I have some itches. I have attempted to write about these before, but haven’t felt like pushing the ‘publish’ button. I’ve been running Puppet in a atypical way for some time now. No Puppet Master No distribution packaging No commit until I [...]
Stuff from vendors: Sonatype are announcing a build-time inspection feature for your artifacts, presumably so you can fail the build on crap dependencies [link] Cloudbees are making the Jenkins UI more usable – I’ve road tested it, and it helps a boatload [link] TeamCity 7.0.2 is out [link] In other news: I’m a CruiseControl committer. [...]
Sonatype are making news of their .NET support. It’s about time that there was a decent approach to this in .NET. [link] Amazon are in London again, with refreshments [link] Splunk Conference is in Las Vegas. It might be safer to say that you’re going to Gomorrah. [link] VMWare UK Forum happens twice in May [...]
I was too quick to choose my post-ThoughtWorks job. I interviewed with an ‘Agile’ development shop that worked off of detailed requirements, and an insurance company who prided themselves on their agile record. They were both misguided, and so was I for electing to work at one of them. So I jumped ship. To a [...]
As promised, I’ve open sourced the core of XFD, under an AGPL license: https://github.com/builddoctor/xfd-core Thanks to the efforts of Kush, you now have: a plain vanilla XFD, that you can style to fit your organisation all the code to talk to different CI servers with rspec support, and a Travis build: http://travis-ci.org/#!/builddoctor/xfd-core The next release [...]
Bamboo 4.0 is out today. I had a brief chat with James Dumay (@i386) from Atlassian, who is the Product Manager for Bamboo. What’s new with Bamboo? The Bamboo team has been hard at work for the last few months rethinking and rebuilding the way developers use and interact with CI when a team uses [...]
Continuous Integration existed before CruiseControl. Before Martin Fowler wrote about it. Of course, it always was a primarily a practice, but some don’t know that there was a Continuous Integration server that existed before CruiseContol: Mozilla Tinderbox. Tara Hernandez was instrumental in developing the first version of Tinderbox, and I asked her for a little [...]
ThoughtWorks recently released Go 12.1. It’s not version inflation, they’e adopted the Perforce model of doing regular releases in the year. The biggest feature: TFS support. Hello Steve! [link] The Prags just released ‘Deploying with JRuby’, which looks fascinating. [link] UrbanCode [warning: sponsor danger] are doing a webinar on March 22: ‘Using AntHillPro with uDeploy’ [...]
Pulse 2.5alpha is available to palpitate, with lots of incremental features [link] TeamCity 7 is out, with improved Build Chaining (pipelines) and lots more [link] I missed the Nexus 2 webinar, but I plan to watch the catch-up [link] UrbanCode [warning, sponsor danger] are doing a webinar on Next Generation Continuous Delivery [link] ThoughtWorks are [...]
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