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Use the Force: Attaining Low-Risk Application Configuration Management

2012-05-29T13:00:32Z

So what’s the Problem with Application Configuration Management anyway? You know how when you are trying to deploy an application to another environment, and then it starts to suck because somehow you end up with the wrong version of the configuration or the configuration values are for a different environment altogether? This is not an [...]

[Guest Post] Programming at the speed of thought with JRebel

2012-05-28T12:27:13Z

For most companies, a customer who does not openly complain about poor features or customer service can be considered a success. Indeed, when your toothpaste does its job correctly, do you write to Colgate congratulating them and wishing them well? No. That’s why it’s so cool that Chris Wong, who writes a blog on Java [...]

How strong is your Java-fu? Take the TopGeek Quiz challenge

2012-05-22T08:15:06Z

Have you ever felt like you are the smartest Java dev in your team? In the world? Quantifying this sort of superiority can be completed in only one way (two, if you count dueling): the quiz challenge… Test your grey matter with ZeroTurnaround’s TopGeek Quiz challenge on Java know-how. Ping your friends with your score. [...]

Atlassian and ZeroTurnaround team up to launch Bamboo-LiveRebel plugin

2012-05-22T07:11:11Z

If you’ve been following the progression of LiveRebel over the last year, then you’ve seen some major improvements and advancements in deployment features, user interface and general experience. Now we take it a step further to get down and dirty in Continuous Delivery, teaming up with Atlassian’s popular Bamboo CI tool. Check out the Bamboo-LiveRebel [...]

LiveRebel 2.0.7 is out, features new look and feel

2012-05-18T10:16:33Z

It’s been a crazy three months for us since the LiveRebel 2.0 release and we might not have been as diligent with the release announces as we could be. Since we are big proponents of Continuous Delivery we also apply it to our own products and so we kept cranking out fixes and new features [...]

Developer Productivity Report 2012: Java Tools, Tech, Devs and Data

2012-05-22T10:53:59Z

The Tools & Tech Leaderboard for 2012 shows… We’re not much for fanfare here at ZeroTurnaround, but this is our most ambitious report that we’ve ever created. This year, over 1800 respondents shared their take on “the developer life” with us, with 1100 Java-focused surveys completed. Want to know how much uptake Java SE 7 [...]

How to use Jenkins for Job Chaining and Visualizations

2012-05-04T15:04:12Z

Job chaining in Jenkins is the process of automatically starting other job(s) after the execution of a job. This approach lets you build multi-step automation pipelines or trigger the rebuild of a project if one of its dependencies is updated. In this article, we will look at a couple of plugins for Jenkins job chaining [...]

JRebel 4.6.2 Released

2012-05-04T14:40:26Z

This week we released a new minor version of JRebel. You can download the latest version of JRebel right now. The new version includes a number of bugfixes and improvements for GWT, Tiles, Spring, Liferay, JBoss, etc. See the changelog for the full list of additions. There’s one very specific fix that concerns Spring users: [...]

Gravitational singularity, cosmology and an intern

2012-05-07T08:01:42Z

Last week was a great week for ZeroTurnaround. On Monday we grew by 10% head count wise and I plotted the trend. It was humongous. My calculations showed that we will reach 600 billion people by the end of the year. This introduced a lot of questions and couple of interesting threads. Also it meant [...]

Arquillian Meets JRebel: Lightning Fast Integration Testing

2012-04-30T13:22:53Z

ZeroTurnaround and Red Hat’s JBoss teams have been spending a lot of time working to make Java faster, more efficient and more community-based. We already support the JBoss Forge team with free JRebel OSS licenses, and now we see that the JBoss Arquillian team has started to see the real value in cutting out redeploys [...]