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Grails & Hudson / Jenkins: Monitoring Build Status

There are a number of ways you can monitor the progress of your Grails build: using the Hudson / Jenkins web app; or leveraging the API: from your IDE,...

0 replies - 9154 views - 01/30/12 by Robin Bramley in Articles

Assignment Algorithms to improve Perfomance of Automated Timetabling

Over the last two days I’ve read the old Java code of a board game. Although the game still compiles and works (it even works on a Zaurus device) the code...

2 replies - 4362 views - 01/29/12 by Peter ___ in Articles

13 Keys to Continuous Delivery

I've summarized some key takeaways from a ThoughtWorks quarterly update on Continuous Delivery that I attended some months ago. This took the form of a panel...

1 replies - 14952 views - 01/29/12 by Troy Hunt in Articles

Tips for Testing Database Code

Almost everybody understands that source code belongs in version control. Many people understand we need to test our code. Quite a few do that...

3 replies - 3879 views - 01/25/12 by Jens Schauder in Articles

Visualize Maven Project Dependencies with dependency:tree and Dot Diagram Output

The dependency:tree goal of the Maven plugin dependency supports various graphical outputs from the version 2.4 up. This is how you would create a diagram...

1 replies - 5048 views - 01/25/12 by Jakub Holý in Articles

Top DZone Article of 2011 - 10 Mistakes That Software Team Leads Make

Roy Osherovehttp://5whys.com/@royosherove “Ten Mistakes” (as I shall now call it because I’m too lazy to keep typing the whole title), was a talk by...

2 replies - 32869 views - 01/24/12 by James Betteley in News

Use Prefix Operators instead of Boolean Operators

The following is written with Solr users in mind, but the principles apply to Lucene users as well. I really dislike the so called “Boolean Operators”...

1 replies - 4718 views - 01/24/12 by Chris Hostetter in Articles

The "Clean Software" Approach To Life

This is going to be an odd publication, that falls more into the “life tips” or “self help” category, than into “programming”. But bear with...

1 replies - 3068 views - 01/24/12 by Bozhidar Bozhanov in Articles

Revealing Project Naughtiness with Tattletale

Tattletale is a highly useful development tool that not only has a catchy name, but also has a clever slogan: "Betraying your project's...

0 replies - 2523 views - 01/23/12 by Dustin Marx in Articles

Christmas decorations teach me a lesson about troubleshooting

And now, after an absence of several weeks, you get to see how long it takes me to write some of these posts. I was putting up the Christmas...

2 replies - 2000 views - 01/19/12 by Trisha Gee in Articles

Unit Test Code Coverage

It’s easy to collect unit test code coverage because all of the common tools are geared up for it. This article will explain how you can add unit test...

0 replies - 4403 views - 01/18/12 by John Dobie in Articles

Solr at Virgin Money Giving

Virgin Money Giving is a UK-based not-for-profit business that was launched as a result of Virgin Money’s sponsorship of the London Marathon and raised...

0 replies - 3651 views - 01/17/12 by Mitch Pronschinske in Videos

Operations should Communicate Close to the Change

I have said this before but it bears repeating. If you are making a change and you want people to know you have made a change, add a note where someone is...

0 replies - 2755 views - 01/16/12 by Cody Powell in Articles

Monitoring Wonderland Survey - Metrics - API - Gateways

Patrick Dubois will give an overview of somesome of the more popular open source monitoring tools and he'll show you how to make several of these tools work...

0 replies - 4967 views - 01/13/12 by Patrick Debois in Articles

Monitoring Wonderland Survey - Introduction

While Automation is great to get you going and doing things faster and reproducible, Monitoring/Metrics are probably more valuable for learning and getting...

0 replies - 3624 views - 01/12/12 by Patrick Debois in Articles