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Build Pattern: Facade

March 2, 2010

Let’s face it: Build scripts can age as badly as Steven Seagal. What do you do when yours is needing more than botox and a mud pack?
What you shouldn’t do is attempt to rewrite the whole thing from scratch. There’s no guaruntee that it’ll look any better by the time you’ve done that, [...]

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Links for 2010-03-01

March 1, 2010

Here’s Monday’s links from My Twitter Stream.

23:31: @martinfowler: BlueGreenDeployment http://bit.ly/duOLTo [this reduced deploy outage at a large ISP from 45 minutes to a few seconds]

23:11: “Steve Freeman and Ivan Moore are teaching a course at UCL called “Tools and Environments”.” http://bit.ly/a5kGMx

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Links for 2010-02-25

February 25, 2010

Here’s Thursday’s links from My Twitter Stream.

22:35: [Blog] Justifying Continuous Integration Expenditure http://bit.ly/bGvskR

21:56: Q&A: Erik Troan on the role of version control in Operations http://bit.ly/aFAtcU

21:13: Opening TeamCity 5.1 EAP http://bit.ly/9BBgck

15:23: Nicest. Comment. [...]

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Justifying Continuous Integration Expenditure

February 25, 2010

Banos commented on my last post:
So why, oh why, oh why is it so difficult to get an additional server? Has anyone come up with a formula to produce some numbers for the bean counters to justify this already?
I propose this is an endemic problem that the guys on the ground give up fighting to [...]

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Build Pattern: Green-lit build

February 25, 2010

Continuous Integration should be a highway, not a parking lot. But that’s what happens sometimes when developers end up competing for limited Continuous Integration capacity. Developers working on critical and time-senstive work like production bugfixes can struggle to get their builds serviced promptly; they can be fighting a tide of checkins from their [...]

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Links for 2010-02-24

February 24, 2010

Here’s Wednesday’s links from My Twitter Stream.

20:24: IP lobby disgraces self, asks that nations that encourage free/open code be classed as rogue states http://bit.ly/cKUyxk (via @haraldwalker)

16:10: Tim Pizey: Bringing WebMacro up for air http://bit.ly/aM1cm2 [you can bring old code into the fold ... ]
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Links for 2010-02-23

February 23, 2010

Here’s Tuesday’s links from My Twitter Stream.

22:51: I like these technical notes on CI from the Parabuild guys. http://bit.ly/9BDoZm

18:52: London Tech Meetups http://bit.ly/b4mH7T (via @ripienaar) [devops london is on it]

18:18: Focused Extreme Feedback with CI Information Radiators – [...]

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The hidden cost of building

February 23, 2010

piggy bank - what does continuous integration cost you?

Thanks to EJ Ciramella for this thought provoking post. There’ll be a Build Doctor T-Shirt on it’s way to him soon.
In this down economy, irrespective of size of company involved, people want to save money, limit costs and increase throughput of their systems. One area of savings is the build and continuous integration [...]

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Continuous Integration in the cloud: good idea?

February 23, 2010

Continuous Integration can be tricky to provision. It’s IO or CPU bound at the beginning and then it has a tendancy to batter your database for a long time while staying almost idle. Slava Imeshev of Viewtier kindly commented on myoutsourcing continuous integration post:
My take on this is that hosted CI in a [...]

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