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Build Types Vs. Build Promotions

When it comes to builds, we often talk about build types - a development build, an integration build, a release build, etc. We very rarely hear people talking (or writing) about build promotions.Read more...Tags : lifecyle promotions build
Archiving Some Past Presentations

With the new website, the presentations below have (at least temporarily) lost their home. So, they are being archived for the time being here.Read more...
Archiving the EJB Benchmark

We released an EJB benchmark in early 2002 based on some work we did early on with EJBs. With the new site design, the EJB benchmark would have been lost, and that's why it ended up on my blog for archiving.Read more...
The Nuts and Bolts of Release Builds

Given that I work for a company that develops an automated build management server, I get to hear about some of the different build and release processes that are in use. Generally, they all follow the same structure, but there are some variations. In ...
Part 2 of Sloppy Deployments

In my previous post, I wrote about the evils of sloppy deployments. Two main practices may lead to what I call "sloppy deployments," they are ...Read more...
Don't Let Your Controlled Build Process be Undermined by Sloppy Deployments

Deployment management, although not strickly a part of build management, is still a very important topic, as it can render very strong build management practices almost useless. Recently I've ran into several development teams that have what I would call ...
Beyond Continuous Integration

Having a team of 10, 30, or 100 developers committing their changes multiple times a day or even on a daily basis has the potential of creating chaos. This is a big point, and one that I would like to explore in a little more detail ...Read more...
Beyond Continuous Integration

In this first of a two part series, we are going to try to answer the following question: What are the types of builds that you would typically see during the lifetime of a project? But before we can start to answer this question, we need to come to an ...

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Re: The Nuts and Bolts of Release Builds
I see Accurev linked to this page from their new blog. A post about build artifacts. http://accurev.wordp...

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Build Types Vs. Build Promotions

When it comes to builds, we often talk about build types - a development build, an integration build, a release build, etc. We very rarely hear people talking (or writing) about build promotions.