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Webcast: The Role of Binary Repositories in Software Configuration Management

Broadcast Date: Mon., Mar. 15, 2010 at 1:00 p.m. EDT Speakers: Jeffrey Fredrick, Urbancode Technical Evangelist; Eric Minick, Urbancode Lead Consultant Register Now How confident are you with the content of what you are about to release? Do you know ...
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: ...

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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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	Title and summary	Date/time
1	Conway's Law explains why we have manual deployments 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. ...	Feb 3, 2010
2	Recorded Webcasts We've made our last two Webinars available for playback at your convenience. Death to Manual Deployments: Manual deployments are slow, inconsistent and fail in production. Other than that, they're fine. Listen to Jeffery Fredrick and Eric Minick as ...	Jan 18, 2010
3	AnthillPro Tips for Efficient Deployments Lean teams aggressively identify waste in all their processes and act to strip it out. The transmission of files as part of the deployment process is often wasteful. This article looks at two elements contributing to slow downs. First, redeploying ...	Sep 25, 2009
4	Webinar: Improving Development Productivity with Static Analysis and Enterprise Continuous Integration Tomorrow (Wednesday Sept. 2nd) I'll be presenting a webinar with Alen Zukich of Klocwork on Improving Development Productivity with Static Analysis and Enterprise Continuous Integration. Personally I think combining static analysis with continuous ...	Sep 1, 2009
5	Webinar: Build and Deployment Automation for the Lean Economy Update! A recording of this webinar is now available: Watch Now Next Wednesday on August 19th Eric and I will be presenting a webinar on Build and Deployment Automation for the Lean Economy. Our inspiration for the topic is that while we've seen budgets ...	Aug 14, 2009
6	Manage Offline Deployment Servers with Selective Redeploys Distributed deployments offer a wide variety of benefits to your applications lifecycle. While automating this process saves time and reduces errors, it would be impossible to plan for every setback. The following entry discusses how to determine which ...	Jul 17, 2009
7	Rolling Deployments with AnthillPro 3.6 A common question from our users has been, “How do I set up a rolling deployment?” The basic challenge is to run some deployment process on a number of machines, but not all at the same time. One or two machines should be upgraded at a time ...	Feb 6, 2009
8	Speeding Tests by Distributing Them Seeing Geronimo 2.0 pass the Sun TCK tests brought a smile to the faces of the team here -- our guys helped the Geronimo team achieve shorter test cycles by distributing tests with AnthillPro. So what’s the trick to distributing tests?	Jun 7, 2007

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