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18 Continuous Integration Questions

Friday, January 22, 2010

Top .NET dog Roy Osherove just blogged some good questions about choosing a build automation or CI tool. This comes hot on the heels of his post about the difference between continuous build and continuous integration. Here’s a few more questions: If someone breaks the config, can I roll it back? If not, can I [...]

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dbdeploy.net

Sunday, January 17, 2010

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 [...]

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.NET: Who cares?

Friday, February 20, 2009

No more .NET articles on this blog, unless something really interesting happens. Most of the .NET posts are there by accident; I accidentally ended up doing nothing but .NET build and release management work. It’s just not likely that there’s a great deal of .NET developers who: care about deployment and CI matters want to [...]

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CruiseControl Build Radiator

Sunday, December 28, 2008

Sudhindra Rao from ThoughtWorks has released a Build Radiator (Big Visible thing) for all the CruiseControls that support CCTray. I installed it tonight. Needed to install the rack and activerecord gems. It would be nice to see it wrap around if you have more than a few projects. Most teams would probably do fine with [...]

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Microsoft Web Deployment Tool

Monday, August 25, 2008

(image taken from Scoble’s Photostream) Microsoft are now offering a deployment tool to assist with the scary XCOPY-style deployments of .NET web applications. I’m old enough to have used XCOPY in DOS. It always seemed a little backwards to me: invest millions and millions in a language and platform to take on Java, and still [...]

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A real Build Refactoring, in the wild

Friday, May 23, 2008

(image taken from A Princesses photostream) As a build manager I have often looked on at my developer peers with a little envy. It’s a niche position, which might explain why tools seem to lag behind sometimes.. There’s plenty of editors out there that one can edit build files with; some you’d even want to [...]

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Unclean. (does your CI server have an IDE installed on it?)

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

(image taken from SubFlux’s photostream) Your build shouldn’t depend on an IDE. I’ve been saying that for a long time. It doesn’t matter that all the developers use the same IDE on your project. At least in the Java world that I have inhabited for most of the past 8 years, you absolutely should not [...]

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