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Huge Discounts on Cruise from Thoughtworks

simpsonjulian — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:00:35 +0000

ThoughtWorks Studios released version 1.3 of Cruise, their Continuous Integration product last week. You can get a huge discount on it via this blog. (keep reading for more detail) What’s new? They’ve added the ability to run multiple agents on your enormous old-school build server. They’ve shortened the feedback loop with custom email notifications based on your criteria You [...]

New Continuous Integration system

simpsonjulian — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 07:35:57 +0000

I got a mail a few weeks ago from Mr Hericus, inviting me to find out more about Zed Builds and Bugs Manager. In his words: We’re relatively new to the market (about 1 year out at this point), and our focus is total team integration. It’s not enough to simply integrate your software on a continuous [...]

Story: Fan or Die

simpsonjulian — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 14:11:42 +0000

David Goh contributed this beauty: Back in 1994 or so at my first job, we were building some train control system software. We had a series of mainframes that we were using to test the software on, which all lived in a small room with no extra airconditioning. The only point of transmission between the [...]

Story: Wolf++ fixes the Deployment Process

simpsonjulian — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:08:43 +0000

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 [...]

What is a Maven POM?

simpsonjulian — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:32:58 +0000

Why I am asking about Maven POMs? I do know, honest. But I often read blog posts or articles about Maven and wonder about the language being used. There’s some very domain specific terms in use here. So I decided to offer some definitions for people starting out with Maven. Today, we start with POMs. I [...]

Story: Daniel’s Continuous Integration System

simpsonjulian — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:35:11 +0000

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 [...]

Maven 2.2.0 is out

simpsonjulian — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:48:41 +0000

Lot of fixes and some new features. This is the week of new developer toys, isn’t it? It’s not over yet, either. My spies tell me something else is on the way. Link Did you like this? Please share it if you did! No related posts.

CruiseControl.rb gets official Git support

simpsonjulian — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:58:44 +0000

I’m not a fan, but this is about time: We are happy to announce the release of CruiseControl.rb 1.4.0. This release adds support for three distributed version control systems - Git, Mercurial and Bazaar - in addition to Subversion.CC.rb remains easy to install, pleasant to use and simple to hack. Since the source has now moved [...]

FishEye and Crucible get social

simpsonjulian — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:45:47 +0000

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.. [...]

Atlassian Giveaway Winners!

simpsonjulian — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:00:52 +0000

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 [...]