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Continuous Deployment at CITCON

December 8, 2009

I recorded most of a discussion on Continuous Deployment and Build Pipelines at CITCON this year. I only just got around to squeezing the video size down to get it onto Viddler. It is an interesting discussion with some serious CI gurus. It’s also shaky (no, I didn’t get some old geezer [...]

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Video: Jeffrey Fredrick Interview

October 13, 2009

Last week we interviewed PJ. This week it’s JTF, or Jeffrey Fredrick. He’s one of the guys who maintained CruiseControl and co-founded the OIF (the organisation that brings you CITCON). He’s also the Technical Evangelist for Urbancode, who bring you Ant Hill Pro.
My Flip cam called time on the interview by filling [...]

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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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Better Apache Ant Builds

September 20, 2009

Abstract: We did two CITCON sessions here; Joe Schmetzer suggested a show-and-tell about tools to reduce Ant bloat, and Ivan Moore wanted a general session on improving the quality of Java builds in general. During the conference, the two sessions merged. My plan was to sit in and tweet [...]

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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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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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Continuous Integration Cage Fight – the entire first series

Thumbnail image for Continuous Integration Cage Fight – the entire first series April 14, 2009

CITCON Europe 2008. Tom Sulston proposes a session for CI developers and vendors to show off their wares. The Continuous Integration Cage Fight is born. Seven geeks. One prize of … nothing.
Your humble narrator was given the job of recording the battle, which he did by juggling an Asus Eeepc, and a Nokia N73. Given [...]

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Continuous Integration Cage Fight: Buildforge

April 14, 2009

This is the final (and very late) installment in the CI cage fight series. The last speaker was Leuwie from IBM, discussing IBM Rational Build Forge.
By this stage in the talk I was done with trying to take notes (curse you, cute eeepc that caught Tom’s eye!) and film at the same time. Things got [...]

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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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