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What’s Next in Continuous Integration?

Topics
Operations,
Build systems,
Tools

Kohsuke Kawaguchi discusses the future of Continuous Integration and Jenkins as they will be influenced by virtualization, cloud computing, DVCS and analysis software.

News about Build systems

CloudBees Releases Jenkins Enterprise

Topics
Enterprise,
Build systems,
Java

CloudBees releases Jenkins Enterprise which offers commercial support, extended long time releases up to a year and extra proprietary plugins useful to companies with large scale Jenkins installations.

Build Machines, Windows 7, and Classic ADO

Topics
Build systems

Imagine you are doing maintenance on an application from the late 90’s that uses the classic ADO libraries. The recompiled code works fine on any Windows 7 SP1 machine, but mysteriously crashes on the Windows XP machines that have been running the program for nearly a decade. This is the problem facing lots of maintenance developers.

Articles about Build systems

Where To Now with Build Automation?

Topics
Agile,
Build systems,
Agile Techniques,
Architecture

Most developers nowadays are familiar with the basic tenets of Continuous Integration, but arguably only a small proportion of these are fully benefiting from an optimized CI set up.This article, discusses taking Continuous Integration beyond merely being a glorified cron job and making it an effective, productivity-enhancing hub for development activity.

Implementing Automated Governance for Coding Standards

Topics
Delivering Quality,
Build systems,
Architecture,
Code Analysis

Most development organizations of a significant size have some form of coding standards and best practices. Simply documenting these standards and keeping them up to date can be a significant challenge and enforcing them even harder. Our organization has found that enforcing coding standards and best practices in an automated fashion through our build process has been highly effective.

Presentations about Build systems

Development at the Speed and Scale of Google

Topics
Operations,
Devops,
Agile,
Build systems,
Tools,
Performance & Scalability,
Architecture

Ashish Kumar presents how Google manages to keep the source code of all its projects, over 2000, in a single code trunk containing hundreds of millions of code lines, with more than 5,000 developers accessing the same repository.

Rapid and Reliable Releases

Topics
Operations,
Devops,
Agile,
Build systems,
Reliability,
Collaboration,
Removing Waste

Rolf Russell & Andy Duncan discuss how to have rapid and reliable releases from the perspective of build, release, and devops, considering the relationship between the teams involved, the metrics needed to measure the performance achieved, the required skills, and the need to remove waste and bottlenecks.

Interviews about Build systems

Paul King on the Groovy Ecosystem

Topics
Dynamic Languages,
Parallel Programming,
Language Design,
Compilers,
Ruby,
Domain Specific Languages,
Build systems,
Java,
Language,
IDE

Paul King discusses the state of Groovy and its maturing ecosystem which includes IDE support, static analysis tools, testing frameworks and the GPars library for concurrency.

Jim Weirich Discusses Rake, the Ruby Make Tool

Topics
Domain Specific Languages,
Build systems,
Ruby

Jim Weirich, is the Chief Scientist for EdgeCase LLC and thecreator of rake, the popular make-like build tool written in Ruby. In this interview with InfoQ, Jim disccusses the birth of rake, Domain Specific Languages, and flexmock, his mocking library.