Pragmatic Automation

Yes, We're Control Freaks

It’s relatively easy to automate small things, but it’s especially rewarding when those recipes are applied to automate the big things, as well. In his latest blog, James Duncan Davidson discusses some strategies that you might be able to pick up and apply to your project.
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Firefox Plugin for CruiseControl

Monitor CruiseControl builds from Firefox.
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CruiseControl Widget

Put the CruiseControl Widget on your Dashboard and monitor builds at a glance.
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Rapid Feedback

How to use a Subversion post-commit script to deploy your application early and often.
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Project Dependencies Using Ant

How to use built-in Ant tasks to manage the build order of sub-projects.
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Autonomation

What sorts of autonomation does your project have to "stop the machine" before abnormalities compound?
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Quick 'n Dirty RSS

Need to monitor a web site that doesn’t have an RSS feed. Here’s how.
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Tiger: An Automation Platform

Apple’s latest operating system is an automator’s playground.
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Tracking Bugs, Cradle to Grave

Here’s one way to provide traceability from a bug report to the file changes that squashed the bug.
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Ant 1.6.3 Available

Ant 1.6.3 is now available for your automation pleasure.
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Getting Started with Rake

Jim Weirich has started writing what promises to be an excellent series of Rake tutorials.
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Ant 1.6 Goody: <subant>

If you’re using Ant but have yet to upgrade to Ant 1.6, then you’re missing out. Here’s a quick example of the new <subant> task.
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Announcing Pragmatic Studio

Announcing Pragmatic Studio: a two-day interactive workshop where you learn how to make version control, unit testing, and automation work for you!
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Ruby Growls

Send Growl notifications from within your Ruby application or the command-line from non-Mac machines.
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Using Growl for Long-Running Builds

Michael McCracken has another neat Growl trick for those of you with a Mac.
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