http://blog.chris-read.net He's just this guy you know... Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:53:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Early last year I did a Quick Comparison of some of the popular CI servers of the time. Things have moved on since then, and I've actually been involved with the Cruise development team since then. Now that Cruise has been released, a number of people both inside and outside ... http://blog.chris-read.net/2008/09/22/continuous-integration-server-comparison-2008/ I'm busy adding the finishing touches to my talk for JAOO this year and I've just realised that I've not let you guys know that I'm going to be there. Consider yourself warned. Last year at the conference I got a chance to show off the new UI we did for ... http://blog.chris-read.net/2008/09/12/speaking-at-jaoo-2008/ I had one of those rare opportunities today when I got to pair with one of the developers on our project. The story he's working on has to do with generating usage documentation for a webservice at runtime. What he wanted was a list of source files to be available ... http://blog.chris-read.net/2008/08/05/ant-can-be-less-verbose-than-java/ While we were still working on Buildix 2, people started asking about an AMI for Buildix on Amazons EC2. This didn't seem to be such a big ask, but now that I've finally gotten around to working on this I've found it can be a bit fiddly! While there is ... http://blog.chris-read.net/2007/11/19/ec2-ami-creation-tips/ I've been at JAOO for the past few days, and while here I had a chance to do a presentation with Erik Doernenburg on Continuous Integration and CruiseControl. We used the new Beta version of Buildix 2 to show people the new CruiseControl Dashboard, and quite a few people were ... http://blog.chris-read.net/2007/09/26/cruisecontrol-and-buildix-2-at-jaoo-2007/ Up until now I've managed to avoid ranting here, but I can no longer resist! After all these years of experience, why are the error messages in windows still generally meaningless? Is it because there are so many of them? The problem I faced was trying to patch a game. Downloaded ... http://blog.chris-read.net/2007/05/23/the-microsoft-school-of-error-messages/ A lot of people are under the impression that CruiseControl is solely intended for Java projects. This is a common misconception. At my current client we're using CruiseControl to build a 15 year old, 2.5 million line mixed C/C++ app using GNU make. We're also using it to ... http://blog.chris-read.net/2007/03/05/using-cruisecontrol-for-non-java-projects/ One of the things I spend a lot of my life doing is looking after Continuous Integration environments. As I work for ThoughtWorks, and am one of the guys who created Buildix, it should come as no surprise that this is all done with CruiseControl. However, in the past few ... http://blog.chris-read.net/2007/02/21/quick-comparison-of-teamcity-12-bamboo-10-and-cruisecontrol-26/ Part of what we're doing at my current client is writing an HTTP interface to allow read only access to a Tangosol cache. For the first month or so we've been using Jetty (6.0.2) for testing and development, because it's free and easy. Everything has been going well, and we ... http://blog.chris-read.net/2007/02/12/why-testing-early-pays-off/ For those of you in the London area who would like to know a bit more about Buildix, see it in action or just ask questions - I'll be showing it off (so to speak) at London 2.0 RC6. For more info on where and when, check out Sam Newman's ... http://blog.chris-read.net/2006/08/08/buildix-demo-at-london-20-rc6/