From Dev To Production Through Build Pipelines and Teamwork

Published August 11th, 2010 Under Agile | Leave a Comment

Sam Newman discusses how to improve the process going from software development to production, covering the following steps: building, configuration, automated testing, deploying, monitoring, logging and disasters. He offers practical advice on how to avoid transforming the development, QA and Operations into silos by using build pipelines providing continuous builds and deployment.

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/From-Development-To-Production

Using Rake to Build, Run Unit Tests and Create Documentation

Published March 29th, 2010 Under Software Testing | Leave a Comment

This screencast demonstrates how to use Rake to build .NET solution, run unit tests and build documentation. Rake with Ruby is a perfect combination which will eliminate Nant and MSBuild hell.

Gradle Deep Dive

Published December 30th, 2009 Under Agile | Leave a Comment

Gradle combines the flexibility of Ant with a build-by-convention approach a la Maven. But both implemented in a more powerful and less restrictive way. In this session you will learn about Gradle’s rich domain model, which provides a true build language. Hans will explain how Gradle offers the abstractions that Ant misses, without the restrictions and obstacles of a rigid framework. Through examples, Hans will also show how Gradle is particularly suitable for enterprise builds and how it supports many optimization strategies that enable fast, yet reliable development. During his demo, Hans will introduce Gradle with a simple ‘hello world’ build and then work with a plain Java and a Java Web project. From there we go to a more complex multi-project build, during which we will discuss major Gradle features.

http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/ajax-ria/gradle-deep-dive

News from the Gradle Build System

Published September 28th, 2009 Under Agile | Leave a Comment

Gradle is a flexible general purpose build system with a build-by-convention framework a la Maven on top. It uses Apache Ivy under the hood for its dependency management. Its build scripts are written in Groovy. We start with a simple hello world build and then work with a plain Java and a Java Web project. From there we go to a more complex multi-project build. During those live sessions we will discuss most of the major Gradle features. We will compare those features with what you can and can not do with Ant or Maven. We will use the latest Gradle snapshot with some very exciting new functionality.

http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/java-jee/news-from-the-gradle-build-system

Getting Serious About Build Automation: Using Maven in the Real World

Published July 29th, 2009 Under Agile | Leave a Comment

Maven 2 is becoming increasingly popular in larger organizations looking to standardize and industrialize their build processes as well as in smaller shops simply trying to get more out of their builds. This session, for developers wanting to learn about Maven and Maven users wanting to get more out of their build tool, covers the main features and benefits of Maven and then looks at some of the more advanced uses of Maven in the real world, including complex transitive dependency management, dependency conflicts, multimodule projects, and integration with other build systems. It also looks at how the m2eclipse plug-in can be used to improve the Maven user experience and how to use the Nexus repository manager with the Maven release process to publish your APIs within your organization.

http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/java-jee/getting-serious-about-build-automation-using-maven-in-the-real-world