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Build Refactoring: Delete Boolean Property

(image taken from Kurtis Scaletta’s photostream) Last time, you read about the extract target refactoring. Today, I’m going to show you one that I love to perform: delete boolean property. Have a look...

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CruiseControl Build Radiator

Sudhindra Rao from ThoughtWorks has released a Build Radiator (Big Visible thing) for all the CruiseControls that support CCTray. I installed it tonight. Needed to install the rack and activerecord...

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Apache Ant script reuse

The Maven guys have got one thing (and others, I’m not being mean) right – we reinvent the wheel too much on Java projects. Joe Schmetzer has an Ant Script Library. And Pascal here has had a crack at...

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Better Apache Ant Builds

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...

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Ant Contrib: the power and the pain

I got a comment from Errno on my last post: “Everyone agrees that Ant Contrib means you’ve done something wrong.” why? is there any blog post/write-up describing this? thanks I don’t know of any...

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Bamboo 2.5 released with improved Maven support

The Atlassian guys just released Bamboo 2.5.  Highlights are: Maven Dependency Management Plan Import from a pom.xml Additional Bulk Actions Streamlined Plan Creation Express Setup Wizard Plus over 70...

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dbdeploy.net

Agile Database deployment for Java and .NET (This post was originally hosted at http://www.dbdeploy.net) DbDeploy is an implementation of the ActiveRecord Migrations pattern. DbDeploy.NET is the .NET...

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Ant will eat itself

I was sorely tempted to save this for April Fool’s Day. <project default="default"> <target name="default"> <delete file="${ant.file}"/> </target> </project> Update: Yes...

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Is Maven agile?

Is Maven agile? Here’s my half-assed reasons why: agile methodologies can uncover issues in your organisation. I’ve got a pet theory that Maven will do the same for your code.  Some build tools allow...

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Repository? That’s not a repository …

… this is a repository. I’ve been experimenting with Amazon S3 as a Maven repository. I threw the results up on GitHub [link]. Why? I’ve been working with some nice people who use binary dependencies....

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