A little while back I had a ball of a time doing an interview with my good mate Andy Glover about the upcoming Java Power Tools book. It was a fun,...
0 replies - 918 views - 02/28/08 by John Ferguson Smart in Blogs
When Hudson first came out, it had only the most basic user authentication schema. Administrators could do everything, and everyone else could only sit and...
5 replies - 2557 views - 02/27/08 by John Ferguson Smart in Blogs
About a year ago, I launched a poll to learn what Continuous Integration servers people were using. The results were interesting...
10 replies - 4969 views - 02/24/08 by John Ferguson Smart in Blogs
When Archiva 1.0.1 came out, it was a big improvement on the existing Maven repositories - you could actually administer some of the configuration via the web...
9 replies - 8901 views - 02/19/08 by John Ferguson Smart in Blogs
The ultimate aim of writing software is to produce a product that satisfies the end user and the project sponsor (sometimes they are the same, sometimes they...
1 replies - 2770 views - 02/17/08 by John Ferguson Smart in Blogs
The upcoming Subversion 1.5 makes huge progress in the way you do branching, at least in the CVS/SVN world. This got me thinking about branching strategies.
3 replies - 4218 views - 02/13/08 by John Ferguson Smart in Blogs
I recently had the pleasure to be interviewed by Andrew Glover, president of Stelligent, about my upcoming Java Power Tools book, for a pod cast to appear on...
0 replies - 1743 views - 02/10/08 by John Ferguson Smart in Blogs
In a recent article in his TestEarly blog, Andy Glover makes the case that you should be able to use a Continuous Integration environment to produce and deploy...
3 replies - 2089 views - 02/07/08 by John Ferguson Smart in Blogs
I recently blogged about unit testing Spring-MVC applications, which is made a lot easier by the mock classes that come with the framework. Last time I was...
1 replies - 2049 views - 02/04/08 by John Ferguson Smart in Blogs
People often complain about the size, quality and speed (or lack thereof) of the maven site generation. However, I beg to differ.
I love the visibility that...
0 replies - 1947 views - 02/03/08 by John Ferguson Smart in Blogs
Spring-MVC might use the old MVC model rather than the more recent component-based approachs. It doesn't come with lots of AJAX-based components. It doesn't...
0 replies - 19947 views - 02/03/08 by John Ferguson Smart in Blogs
Howard Lewis Ship recently blogged about his woes with Maven, which has predictably triggered a long and interesting discussion/flame war.I respect Howard a...
10 replies - 4541 views - 01/31/08 by John Ferguson Smart in Blogs
