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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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Inform or Accommodate?

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Should you stop the build when someone breaks your formatting rules? Should you detect and fix them? There were two comments on the previous post: Oliver agreed, and Will didn’t: Instead of raising errors when things like whitespace or tabs occur, why not just modify the file to correct it? After some reflection I decided [...]

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Supporting Multiple Environments – Part 3

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Supporting Multiple Environments – Part 3 (part one and two) In this installment, I’m going to cover the configuration storage mechanism for this separate configuration jar approach. Configuration Storage With the approach listed in step two, it’s easiest to manage the actual values via property files, stacked up in a layered approach.  Here’s what we [...]

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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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SparkBuild – build optimisation

Thursday, January 14, 2010

This is a guest post from Scott Castle of Electric Cloud. I’ve been wanting to get these guys on the blog for a while. Scott has 5 USB drives full of Electric Cloud software, videos, docs and more to give away. All you need to do is tweet the #sparkbuild hashtag, and 5 lucky people [...]

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