18 Nov 04
Checking Up on the Competition
This simple Ruby script pays for itself time and again by checking up on your web site, and possibly even your competition.more...
18 Nov 04
Automation Gear On Display
Stop by and visit the good folks at Softpro Books in Denver for a first-hand look (and feel) at some of Mike’s project automation gear.more...
10 Nov 04
Got Project Automation?
A new ONJava article by Mike Clark on project automation shows you how life on your project could be.more...
04 Nov 04
Project Automation On the Mac
Mike Clark posts the slides from his automation talk at the O’Reilly Mac OS X Conference.more...
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...
