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Tool News, February 2010

February 16, 2010

There’s a new Hudson out. It’s got 7 bug fixes and 3 enhancements, including some profiling and optimisation work to speed up the UI.
Atlassian have embarked on a Build Engineer hiring offensive. They seem to be based in Sydney. Atlassian would appear to be a great place to work.
Electric Cloud have released [...]

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Story: Problem? What problem?

November 17, 2009

Andy has a consulting horror story …
We were doing a 2 day ‘architectural overview’ for a potential client – they were suffering performance issues as their production site started scaling, and they wanted a hand investigating it. Whilst digging around, my colleague noticed that one of their ASPs didn’t compile. He suggested [...]

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Story: M-ANT-ven

October 15, 2009

Thanks to Graeme Gillies for this funny anecdote from the Atlassian Giveaway. I love the fact that he persisted in nailing this.
When I started at a company (which shall remain nameless) being the
new (junior) guy I was made the “build guy” of one of their biggest
projects to date. I quickly learnt that the code [...]

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Story: I call it “The Wheel”

August 20, 2009

This anonymous user gets top points for offending the most people in this Atlassian Giveaway entry.
I was tasked to evaluate continuous integration systems for my workplace so I tried CruiseControl, Hudson and Bamboo. CruiseControl was a pain in the ass to configure, and I couldn’t get it to work – so stuff that. Hudson was [...]

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Story: Rolling your own

August 13, 2009

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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Story: Wolf++ fixes the Deployment Process

July 9, 2009

The last of the top three stories for the Giveaway was this one from Wolf++. Enjoy!
My last gig I was hired on to be the build guy. On my first day I sat
shotgun to their deployment process. The manual process was as
follows.
1. Logon to the ‘build box’
2. Get latest
3. Open visual studio [...]

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Story: Daniel’s Continuous Integration System

July 3, 2009

Daniel Spiewak gave us this great story for the Atlassian Giveaway. He’s earned a t-shirt. Have a good weekend, where-ever you are.

It was a dark and stormy night. No, actually it was a plesant summer day, but daylight lacks a certain dramatic flare which is so necessary for a good story, especially [...]

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FishEye and Crucible get social

June 30, 2009

It’s 23:30 at Build Doctor HQ, so this is a quick post: Atlassian announced a couple of new releases today. FishEye 2 and Crucible 2. Both come with social features, which is interesting. From the press releases:
Since code review is typically an iterative process — you code, someone else comments, you code again, more comments.. [...]

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Atlassian Giveaway Winners!

June 29, 2009

Thanks to everyone who wrote a story for the Atlassian Giveaway. The entries are in, the judging is complete, and here’s the results!
First prize goes to John Martin, who wrote a story of despair and hope around Continuous Integration. John’s an Atlassian user already, with two other products, so he’s happy to make the hat [...]

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