The Build Doctor tells us the way it is: http://www.build-doctor.com/2009/03/25/continuous-integration-is-not-a-silver-bullet
Month: Mar 2009
A Day in the Life
I saw a drawing today, oh boy! A colleague bought his daughter into the office for work experience last week. She sat through pretty much a day of solid meetings (I was in one of them), and she somehow stayed awake for all of them. After all of this, she was asked to draw a … Continue reading A Day in the Life
Doodling
In case you missed it, doodling is not a bad thing any more: The Guardian BBC This is lucky for me. As anyone who has sat next to me in a meeting can testify, my notebooks are filled with dubious pen scribblings and "artwork". My left hand features prominently in my notebook, mainly because it … Continue reading Doodling
Chromium Developer Tools
These days, the first thing I do when I get a new computer is install Firefox along with the DOM Inspector and Web Developer Toolbar plugins. Those tools, css reference documentation and a text editor is usually all I use for development and maintenance of web pages. I find the DOM Inspector particularly useful for … Continue reading Chromium Developer Tools
A Small CruiseControl Fix, and a Critique of Spring
I quite like the new Dashboard that was added to CruiseControl last year. It has a certain style that makes it appealing to the end users who may be watching the build status, and is a step up from the old reporting JSPs. Until today, I had never really looked into how it was implemented. … Continue reading A Small CruiseControl Fix, and a Critique of Spring
Setting up Categories
It's been a while, but my web monkey skills are getting a bit of a workout again. I'm started tweaking Lillifoot to add product categories, hopefully in a very clear and usable way: One thing which I had forgotten was Nifty Corners (a tool using CSS and Javascript to get rounded corners without images). It … Continue reading Setting up Categories
Continuous Integration and Testing Presentations
I had the opportunity last week to present to some co-workers on the subject of Continuous Integration. My first thought was to pull out the old presentation I had done a few years back: http://www.exubero.com/ccintro/ccintro-s5.html However, that presentation is getting slightly dated. Searching around, I dug up some nicer examples from Slide Share. I especially … Continue reading Continuous Integration and Testing Presentations
Upgrading the Lillifoot Website
It is time to put some time into enhancing the Lillifoot website at http://www.lillifoot.co.uk (in fact, it's well overdue). The current incarnation of the website was launched July 2008. Since that time, the website has served up 180,000 pages and 72GB of data. I'm quite proud of the way that the website has developed over … Continue reading Upgrading the Lillifoot Website
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