Maven Central contains over 260,000 artifacts and serves over 70 million downloads every week.
It has become the principal resource for exchanging Java...
2 replies - 3867 views - 12/15/10 by Brian Fox in Articles
One of the biggest problems in software development is the "DONE" problem. We have in our possession a stack of index cards representing user stories...
2 replies - 12412 views - 12/03/10 by Matt Stine in Articles
Last week, I had the pleasure of giving a talk on Continuous
Integration practices with Hudson. The talk went from automating build
jobs to automating...
0 replies - 5091 views - 11/22/10 by John Ferguson Smart in Articles
A very interesting discussion came up this past weekend during the "Project Automation" Birds of a Feather (BOF) session at the No Fluff Just Stuff...
1 replies - 5386 views - 11/12/10 by Matt Stine in Articles
We often use Feature Toggle
on my current team (when gradual release isn't possible). My experience
so far has been: gradual release is better than Feature...
1 replies - 4094 views - 11/01/10 by Jay Fields in Articles
We had a very good turnout for the Automated Browser Testing Poll this week. Before I get into my musings about what happened, here's a quick summary of the...
5 replies - 12665 views - 10/22/10 by Matt Stine in Articles
The Hibernate team made it official when they recently switched the Hibernate 4 master branch on GitHub over to Gradle for its builds. Now is as good a time...
2 replies - 12415 views - 10/17/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
Since make was
introduced in 1977 to automatically build software, more areas of the
software construction and release process have been automated. In...
4 replies - 12970 views - 10/13/10 by Vincent Partington in Articles
Ahh, famous last words of the close-minded programmer. Solutions abound for automating the build process in software projects: Ant, Gant, Maven, Gradle, Rake,...
7 replies - 14228 views - 10/08/10 by Matt Stine in Articles
Today I'm kicking off a new emphasis here at Agile Zone on software project automation. The astute reader will recognize the double reference to R.E.M.'s 1992...
2 replies - 10298 views - 10/04/10 by Matt Stine in Articles
One of the big focuses of Maven 3 is to provide a more reliable, more
stable and better performing build tool. And one big area of
improvement is...
0 replies - 7681 views - 09/09/10 by John Ferguson Smart in Articles
I’ve seen my fair share of projects migrating from Ant to Maven, and,
for a complex project, this migration path can take some time. You
have to worry...
4 replies - 10053 views - 08/25/10 by Tim O'brien in Articles
I've been playing around with maven 3 lately on our legacy maven 2 multi-module project via mvnsh.
Like advertised, maven 3 is backwards compatible with...
1 replies - 12919 views - 08/20/10 by James Lorenzen in Articles
If you have a Maven project of any size, particularly involving many
modules or large numbers of dependencies, you have probably come across
issues when...
5 replies - 8883 views - 08/19/10 by John Ferguson Smart in Articles
Extreme programming sounds a little too "ESPN2" for most managers, but
there is a lot of sound engineering behind its principles. In this...
0 replies - 7980 views - 08/16/10 by Nitin Bharti in Videos
