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Better Maven integration leads to unforeseen consequences (bugs)

This week, I was faced with what seemed an near-insuperable problem. I was called by one of my dev: as soon as he upgraded his Eclipse (or more precisely,...

2 replies - 4167 views - 09/18/11 by Nicolas Frankel in Articles

Honor Your Legacy Code

Many of us groan when they have to deal with legacy code. Especially those among us who fancy themselves to be craftsmen or clean coders often complain...

0 replies - 3386 views - 09/18/11 by Jens Schauder in Articles

Devopsdays Downunder 2011 - Keynote

At the first devopsdays in Ghent 2009 we were extremely lucky to have Lindsay Holmwood present. I had to skip the first devopsdays downunder. So I was...

0 replies - 5862 views - 09/16/11 by Patrick Debois in News

Why Vagrant is Cool (Video)

I make it no secret. I simply love vagrant. Why? I think I mainly love it for it's simplicity , only a few keystrokes and you're up and runningthe fact that...

0 replies - 8879 views - 09/14/11 by Patrick Debois in News

Binary Search Tree – Programming Praxis solution

Earlier this year I was influenced by two things that got me to re-think what I work on in my free time. The first was this podcast from Software Engineering...

0 replies - 7513 views - 09/14/11 by Bill Bejeck in News

Chronon 2.0: Pushing the Boundaries of Logging

Since Chronon Systems unveiled their time travelling debugger concept, I've been inspired by the innovations that the team are bringing to Java developers...

0 replies - 8794 views - 09/14/11 by James Sugrue in Articles

Software Version Control Visualization - Gource

I've been playing around with visualizations since some time. You might remember my post about GlassFish City where I did a visualization with CodeCity. I...

0 replies - 4512 views - 09/13/11 by Markus Eisele in Articles

Skipping the PGP Signing Process

If you need to install or deploy the maven artifact of your add-on to an internal repository server, and you...

1 replies - 2462 views - 09/13/11 by Ken Rimple in Articles

Clean Code is just a Crutch

Last week I was at the completely awesome SoCraTes conference. It was the first meeting of the German Software Craftsmanship Community. Some of the...

6 replies - 3450 views - 09/13/11 by Jens Schauder in Articles

Books For People Interested In Devops

Before starting with FreeAgent I decided I should spend a bit more time with Ruby and set about building something I’d been thinking about...

0 replies - 6585 views - 09/12/11 by Gareth Rushgrove in News

The placebo effect is what makes the software world go ’round

I’ve been of the opinion for some time now that software development, regardless of the methodology followed or the tools used, is not an engineering...

4 replies - 3703 views - 09/11/11 by Chas Emerick in Articles

Continuous Deployment = Continuous Business Improvement

One of the benefits of working on a startup project of which I am the owner is that I can do things the way I want to. One of the things I was keen to try out...

1 replies - 5867 views - 09/11/11 by Wille Faler in News

Acceptance Criteria for Release Management Maturity Model

I was asked a good question by a colleague a couple of days ago. On p419 of my book Jez and I show and I describe a “Configuration and Release Management...

0 replies - 6125 views - 09/09/11 by Dave Farley in News

Enterprise Integration Patterns: Past, Present and Future

Gregor Hohpe - Enterprise Integration Patterns: Past, Present and Future: Eight years after the initial publication, the Enterprise Integration Patterns have...

0 replies - 4829 views - 09/09/11 by Brandon Nokes in Uncategorized

The Future of Camel

James Strachan - The Future of Camel: James tells the history of Camel, it’s wide adoption, and where it is headed in the future. He will also introduce and...

0 replies - 4421 views - 09/09/11 by Brandon Nokes in Uncategorized