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Maven's Strengths and Weaknesses as a Dependency Management System

For many Java teams, switching to Maven will introduce them to formal dependency management. Maven actually does a pretty decent job and is a fantastic system out of the box for informal projects. However, for teams looking to implement rigorous component ...
2 Talks At ESDC

I'm traveling to Atlanta this week but the first week of March I will be back in the San Francisco Bay Area for a new conference, ESDC, the Enterprise Software Development Conference. While this is is a new conference the timing is familiar; ESDC has ...
AnthillPro Security for Auditors

Eric Starr over at Anthillizer provides a how-to for creating an Auditor Role in your AnthillPro. He suggests default "read" or "view" permissions across the board but no execute permissions. Seems like a reasonable strategy for most ...
Configure a Multiplatform Build in AnthillPro

A common build scenario is to need to compile on several different platforms. The basic build is all the same, but a couple parameters change platform to platform. Here we look at the basics of configuring this kind of scenario in AnthillPro. You need: ...
Sonar Integration for AnthillPro

A Sonar plugin for AnthillPro is now available through Urbancode's Supportal (support portal). This plugin pushes build generated metrics to the Sonar dashboard automatically when the build completes. When using Sonar, continuous integration builds can ...

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Re: Maven's Strengths and Weaknesses as a Dependency Management System
There is a way to depend on status. You would tackle this via setting up a Staging repository. This is fully supported by the maven release plugin and even has a goal: mvn release:prepare release:stage -DautoVersionSubmodu...
Re: Configure a Multiplatform Build in AnthillPro
Oh yes. Creating some best practices / patterns / refactorings kind of guide is a project that we need to tackle - I think it is on my plate to get done this year. Hopefully sooner rather than later.
Re: Configure a Multiplatform Build in AnthillPro
Thanks, Eric. Although we don't have a need for multi-platform builds yet, this is a good introduction on how to use iteration properties. Also, the idea of separating out the platform-agnostic setup and wrap up jobs is a nice strategy to avoid ...

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Conway's Law explains why we have manual deployments

and why they'll be automated in the future

As we covered in our recent webcast on automated deployments, manual deployments are pretty obviously inferior to automated deployments. And yet, as an industry we still have a lot of manual deployments. This counter-intuitive fact demands explanation. Conway's Law provides one.