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Platform à trois

March 4, 2010

Jruby, Maven and Rubygems get friendly. This could make Jruby on Rails a force to be reckoned with:

All the libraries in the Maven repositories available as Rubygems
Sonatype are making DSL languages on top of the Maven tool: those who are to cool to use XML can use Maven

See TFA here. Code [...]

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Ant Refactoring

January 17, 2010

Ant isn’t what the hip kids are using right now. But what if you have a hairball of it? Do you rip it out and replace it with something that is of the moment, like Buildr, or Gradle? Do you want to mess up your project while you do it? Or [...]

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Video: Paul Julius Interview

October 6, 2009

The main reason I cannot miss a single CITCON Europe: catching up with all my friends, old and new. Paul Julius and I decided to have a formal catch up on camera. Less formal conversation was had, too.

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CITCON Europe 2009

September 18, 2009

I’ll sporadically be tweeting about the conference throughout the weekend.

http://twitter.com/builddoctor

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Story: Rolling your own

August 13, 2009
Golden Virginia

Thanks to Daniel Spiewak for this great story from the Atlassian Giveaway.
It was a dark and stormy night. No, actually it was a pleasant summer day, but daylight lacks a certain dramatic flare which is so necessary for a good story, especially a story about build systems.

I was working as the semi-lead developer for [...]

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CruiseControl.rb gets official Git support

June 30, 2009

I’m not a fan, but this is about time:
We are happy to announce the release of CruiseControl.rb 1.4.0. This release adds support for three distributed version control systems – Git, Mercurial and Bazaar – in addition to Subversion.CC.rb remains easy to install, pleasant to use and simple to hack. Since the source has now moved [...]

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Citcon Paris is filling up fast

April 25, 2009

Citcon Europe ‘09 news:

We should be able to announce a venue soon
It’s two-thirds full! Eric Lefevre has more:

While some are currently enjoying CITCON Minneapolis, the Paris edition is quietly making progress.It turns out today that we have passed the 100-registrants mark for CITCON Paris. That’s 2 thirds of the capacity. And there are almost 5 [...]

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Escape: a configuration web app

February 13, 2009
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Tracking configuration is hard.
The real state of your organisation’s system is a fluid, changing thing. Servers are added. Servers die. Services grow, multiply and experience lemming-like extinctions.
Tracking all these facts in a version control system really is like pulling teeth some days. The cycles of infrastructure rarely match release cycles for software; and how [...]

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2009 conference plans

January 27, 2009

I’m happy to say that I’m going to be at three conferences this year. First, I’ll be speaking on Continuous Integration at the JAOO Developer Day in Copenhagen, Denmark. March 4th.

I’ll be doing a similar talk a few days later at QCon London, March 11-13.

Finally, I’ll be at at CITCON Europe in Paris on September [...]

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CITCON Europe 2009: September 18-19 – Paris, France.

January 18, 2009

Great news: we have a date for CITCON Europe – and it’s in Paris!
What is CITCON? It’s a free Continuous Integration and Testing conference.

If you’re a developer interested in how to better craft your code with tests, you’ll fit right in.
If you’re a tester looking to automate tests more effectively, welcome.
If you run a Continuous [...]

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