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CI vs Zombies

(Thanks to Jason Sankey of Pulse for this Guest Post) On behalf of the Zutubi team, I’m excited to announce the latest release of our continuous integration server, Pulse 2.4! Before I go into details, I’d like to touch briefly on one of the areas we’ve been working on for this release that doesn’t get [...]

Git for Sysadmins – Stephen Nelson-Smith

Video number two of the DevOps meeting is Stephen Nelson-Smith of Atalanta Systems bravely doing his talk – sans slides due to laptop failure(this is why I keep my talks on GitHub). It seems that the technology problems didn’t end there, because I didn’t start filming immediately due to a PEBCAK issue. Once we get [...]

Platform à trois

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 here.

Ant Refactoring

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 do you try and [...]

Video: Paul Julius Interview

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.

CITCON Europe 2009

I’ll sporadically be tweeting about the conference throughout the weekend. http://twitter.com/builddoctor

Story: Rolling your own

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 [...]

CruiseControl.rb gets official Git support

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 [...]

Citcon Paris is filling up fast

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 [...]

Escape: a configuration web app

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 [...]