Second to last in the talk was Team City, presented by Yegor Yarko of JetBrains. They’ve done a very good job of the tool and used their position as developers of IntelliJ and Resharper to promote this product very cleverly: so I don’t think I need to do much introduction to the tool. Here’s the [...]
Jason Sankey of Yutubi presented Pulse. Pulse is a closed source (though they will let you peek! see below) CI server. Jason and his team set out to make something easy and flexible, with a config GUI and an easy install. What I like is that it scratches a very painful itch: duplication in the [...]
The next installment in this series is Eric Lefevre presenting Hudson. Hudson is an open source CI server that has gained a fantastic amount of ground in the past year or two. Out of the box it has a pretty good feature set: Distributed builds. You can declare a dependency on a particular OS and [...]
The second presentation at the CI Cage Fight was Paul Julius, talking about CruiseControl. I think of CruiseControl as the daddy (or at least an uncle) of Continuous Integration servers. It’s the oldest Java CI server that I know of. As an open source project I think it opened the way for projects to adopt [...]
One of the sessions for Citcon Europe 2008 was Tom Sulston’s Continuous Integration Cage Fight. Seven geeks lined up to show off their CI prowess, and the first one in the cage was Ivan Moore with his CI server, build-o-matic. Build-o-matic is an open source CI server written in Python. It’s classic open source in [...]