http://jayflowers.com/WordPress Bodhisattva in Training Sun, 02 May 2010 02:43:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The use of the depends attribute on targets is prevalent in many project Ant scripts.  I believe that depends is the bane of reuse.  Lets take the name of a simple target like deploy.  In the context of a developers environment deploy would likely depend on package, package on unittest, ... http://jayflowers.com/WordPress/?p=214 I hate Ant. I like NAnt better, and I hate NAnt too.  The intent of this series is to share how I have demanded more out of Ant. Did you know that you can mess with the Java objects of Ant in Ant script?  You can create tasks on the fly. ... http://jayflowers.com/WordPress/?p=213 Recently I was at CITCON 2010 (Continuous Integration and Testing Conference) in Raleigh-Durham. One of the sessions I participated in was on automated workspace management.  I thought I would share more on my related experiences here. First what is automated workspace management?  Think of a new person on your project.  How ... http://jayflowers.com/WordPress/?p=212 For a long time now CI Factory has had the concept of a Package: a set of NAnt targets, properties, tasks, and functions that can be loaded by the Main.Build.xml or the Post.Build.xml and later call targets on them. <include buildfile="${PackagesDirectory}\MSBuild\Compile.Target.xml" /> …… ... http://jayflowers.com/WordPress/?p=211 CI Factory and I have been stuck in the Java world for over a year now.  I have not had much reason to keep up with the Dot Net packages.  I know there are new versions of most of the Dot Net tools CI Factory offers packages for.  I have ... http://jayflowers.com/WordPress/?p=210 This is a small bug fix release, really for just one bug.   Download CI Factory Version 1.0.1 Any build following a failed build would throw and exception when try to display the main build report on the web dashboard. http://jayflowers.com/WordPress/?p=209 Well it has been a long time coming, version 1.0 is here (release notes).   Update 1.0.1 is out!     Download CI Factory Version 1.0.1 I am very happy with the improvements made in this release and feel confident ... http://jayflowers.com/WordPress/?p=208 We just finished iteration one!  We are doing 1 week iterations just in case you can't count. ;-) We really over committed on the first iteration, we forgot about the holiday.  Oops.  None of the stories were fully completed, and there was business value to show.  It's a ... http://jayflowers.com/WordPress/?p=207 Last week I was having fun pair programming and TDD'n.  This was my first time pairing with my new friend so we naturally had to work through our differences.  One in particular was about a difference in unit testing and doubling (mocking) has stuck me with through the weekend.  My ... http://jayflowers.com/WordPress/?p=206 In general I think open source is better at enabling you to behave Agile then commercial software.  Lets start from the point when you realize that you have a need that is not being fulfilled.  I want to explore this in two slightly different directions.  First imagine that we have ... http://jayflowers.com/WordPress/?p=205