http://openmakesoftware.com/mavericks Best Practices and Technology in Software Delivery Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:06:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Don't forget my blog has moved! Check out my new post on comparing build management in Eclipse C and Java development tools, here: Agile: A Set of Common Sense Optimizations http://openmakesoftware.com/mavericks/2009/11/16/new-post-on-agile-methods-by-sean-blanton/ Don't forget my blog has moved! Check out my new post on comparing build management in Eclipse C and Java development tools, here: Comparing Build Management in Eclipse CDT and JDT http://openmakesoftware.com/mavericks/2009/06/04/new-post-by-sean-blanton/ This blog was technically for all the OM Services folk to blog, but since I did 95% of the posts, I went ahead and took it over. Selvi Dayabaran, Adam Gabor and my blogs are now splitting off from this site to the following respective URL's: Selvi's Blog Adam Gabor's Blog Sean Blanton's ... http://openmakesoftware.com/mavericks/2009/05/08/blogs-spreading-out/ Continuing my last post about using a service such as Twitter (or Yammer or equivalent) to create "pull" notifications that serve the individual, I've set up a Meister workflow to update the status of the Twitter handle @builds after a successful build. I've set up a JBoss build in ... http://openmakesoftware.com/mavericks/2009/04/04/build-management-20-messaging/ There has been some talk around using physical, colored, lamps to notify build results (pragmatic automation, Carlos Sanchez, Richard Durnall, Alberto Savoia). The idea comes from Lean Manufacturing principles developed by Toyota applied to software development. An "andon" paper lamp was a way to let other workers know there ... http://openmakesoftware.com/mavericks/2009/03/26/twitter-for-web-20-build-notifications/ In the Agile Scrum framework, a ScrumBut is a "reason why [you] can't take full advantage of Scrum to solve the problems and realize the benefits." Clearly, build problems are traditionally one of the biggest ScrumButs. Meister removes the scrum butt by taking variables out of the hands of operators ... http://openmakesoftware.com/mavericks/2009/03/17/build-problems-are-scrumbuts/ With our third nomination, we won the Jolt Award for product excellences in the change and configuration management category. You can view the announcement here. http://openmakesoftware.com/mavericks/2009/03/12/openmake-meister-wins-jolt-award-for-excellence/ While we have managed Jboss and WebSphere deployments using Meister and Mojo and we frequently manage resources for different target server environments through build, here is a company that focuses on both of those things. I posted a comment about the reluctance of script writers to give up their ... http://openmakesoftware.com/mavericks/2009/03/06/phurnace-software-java-deployment-tool/ It is just plain fun to run parallel workflows and builds and watch the activities and build steps light up the workflow monitor in real time like a Christmas tree. See this flash demo to see what I mean. As customers go to machines with more and more cores, fewer machines ... http://openmakesoftware.com/mavericks/2009/03/05/overclocking-meister-and-mojo-builds-and-workflows/ It's very common to have a code check-out step be part of an integration build. Far better it is to not check out code before a build. What? How is that possible? Let me explain, Fred. The simple approach most of us take (and have to take when getting things started) ... http://openmakesoftware.com/mavericks/2009/02/17/check-out-code-post-commit-not-pre-build/