http://openmakesoftware.com/mavericks News from the Field Thu, 14 Aug 2008 23:30:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en How do you set up an automated build for EJB client JAR's from the IBM Rational Software Delivery 7 development environment for WebSphere 6? This question came up recently in my work for a major insurance company. When one extends the EJB client class, that is all a developer has to ... http://openmakesoftware.com/mavericks/2008/08/14/building-websphere-ejb-client-jar-projects/ I've been considering the management of our services code under Git. It seems that the support of the distributed development model fits perfectly with sharing and developing code, mostly Perl, among multiple sites (consultants and/or customers). It allows us to keep a primary repository under our own control, but it ... http://openmakesoftware.com/mavericks/2008/07/15/git-for-services/ With the Web 2.0 evolution, information flow between people has changed from a 'push' paradigm (I send you an email) to a pull paradigm (I follow you on Twitter). How could this possibly relate to code management such as branching, merging and history? Well, Git's distributed repository model and how ... http://openmakesoftware.com/mavericks/2008/07/03/git-code-control-follows-social-networking-model/ If you are a hard-core open source programmer, you probably use Git for project code change management instead of Subversion (I chose those words carefully). There is a lot of passion from Git advocates and, while it is not a very mature solution, it has a lot of momentum to ... http://openmakesoftware.com/mavericks/2008/06/30/here-comes-git-for-code-change-management/ I'm now getting about 100 spam comments a week, and so I have to require registration in order to leave comments. A few of you have asked questions to me and this will ensure I can get back to you as well. So, until I find a new spam filter plug-in ... http://openmakesoftware.com/mavericks/2008/05/26/registration-now-required-for-comments/ Here comes buildr: yet another Java build tool. Hopefully I, or one of my other cohorts will check this out in detail soon. But, with my experience working with all manner of build tools, with 100 companies and many more development teams, I can already make a few observations. First of ... http://openmakesoftware.com/mavericks/2008/05/26/yajbt-%e2%80%93-yet-another-java-build-tool/ I've been using and experimenting with Facebook, LinkedIn, All About Wine, Ancestry.com and Plaxo online social networking. I am confident I will be a user of online social networks as long as I can type, and hopefully longer. Here are the things I like best about using them: Enables Greater Social ... http://openmakesoftware.com/mavericks/2008/05/09/sean%e2%80%99s-favorite-things-about-online-social-networks/ The first rule for Bash/C/Korn shell scripts in a Perl program environment is to re-write them all in Perl. If your Perl environment has any sophistication, you will have common code, standardized logging (perhaps with Log::Log4perl), testing with Test::More, etc. and your shell scripts just can't keep pace. If you share ... http://openmakesoftware.com/mavericks/2008/05/09/using-unixlinux-shell-scripts-in-a-perl-environment/ First, let me say how nice it is to have the Mojo workflow engine that allows us to manage the compliance checks, deploy to multiple machines in parallel and validate deployment. This makes our lives a lot easier and provides clear benefits for deployment via the parallelization, dependency management, scalability, ... http://openmakesoftware.com/mavericks/2008/05/09/sean%e2%80%99s-top-10-tools-for-jboss-deployment-on-linux/ As a follow up to my article on automating XML updates, I'd like to report that I did use Excel and Perl's XML::Twig to successfully generate XML descriptors for my web service consumer, and it was a lot easier than I thought. I'm using XFire 1.2.6 web services stack running ... http://openmakesoftware.com/mavericks/2008/04/24/automating-xml-updates-for-web-services/