02 Nov 04
Blogging Your Build
Simon Brown describes how to automatically publish the results of your build process to a project blog for everyone to see.more...
29 Oct 04
CruiseControl 2.2 Released
The latest release of the CruiseControl includes a number of new features and squashes known bugs.more...
15 Oct 04
Lights, Camera, Action!
Lava lamps are visual feedback devices. But what if you can’t see your project’s lamps because they’re connected to a build machine that’s halfway around the world?more...
12 Oct 04
Boiling .NET Code
Curtis Olson contributed this story about how to control lava lamps from CruiseControl.NET.more...
04 Oct 04
Xcode On CruiseControl
CruiseControl is for building Java projects, right? Not so fast. This article describes how to put Xcode projects—Cocoa, Objective-C, and Java projects—on CruiseControl.more...
30 Sep 04
Monitoring .NET Applications with WMI
Here’s a resource for the .NET folks out there that explains how to use Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) to string trip wires in your .NET application.more...
25 Sep 04
NSIS 2.01 Released
The latest release of the NSIS installer/uninstaller lets you create continuous builds of Windows applications on a *nix server.more...
24 Sep 04
Builds In Surround Sound
Ah, it’s Friday—the end of another long week slaving behind a hot keyboard. Here’s a fun story of how one project has spiced up their build process to play success and failure sounds.more...
22 Sep 04
One Build File, Many Deployment Environments
Daniel Frey sent in this report describing how he uses Ant’s immutable properties and code generation to build a J2EE application for any given deployment environment at the push of a button.more...
19 Sep 04
Programs That Growl
Growl is a central notification system for Mac OS X that makes it easy to send notifications from your applications that get displayed on the screen.more...
18 Sep 04
Upcoming Project Automation Talks
Mike Clark is scheduled to speak on Pragmatic Project Automation at several upcoming venues. Here’s the current schedule.more...
16 Sep 04
Tracking Projects by the Dashboard Lights
Check out this insightful article describing how one team uses automation—powered by Ruby and Java—to keep a large, geographically distributed Java project on track.more...
14 Sep 04
Programming Ruby 2 Available For Pre-Order
The book Programming Ruby 2 (aka the PickAxe book) is now available for pre-order. It’s a great way to get started using Ruby for your automation needs.more...
14 Sep 04
Quartz Quick Start
A quick-start tutorial for scheduling jobs with Quartz, an open source job scheduling system written in Java.more...
