This article is a summary of a seminar I had on the topic. If it seems like it’s a continuation of an existing discussion that’s because, to some extent, it is. If you haven’t been discussing exchanging your app server, this article probably isn’t very interesting to you. By putting the application server inside my…
Cloud Computing is an emerging computing technology that uses the internet and central remote servers to maintain data and applications. Cloud computing allows consumers and businesses to use applications without installation and access their personal files at any computer with internet access. This technology allows for much more efficient computing by centralizing storage, memory, processing…
Debates have been heating up about Cloud Computing (CC). Biggest challenge is security and bigger bigger challenge is ‘control’ of a company’s tech assets. The only limitation so far has been internet bandwidth, reason why it took CC a while to become mainstream. Futurists such as Nicolas Negroponte saw it coming a while back and…
There are list of solution which provides Cloud Infrastructures for Hardware as a service (HAAS) or Software as a Services(SAAS). AllenPort AllenPort’s technology handles file management chores like backup, file sharing, disaster recovery, remote access and managing user requirements. AppZero AppZero offers OS-free Virtual Application Appliances that are self-contained, portable units, meaning enterprises can experiment…
Jacksum, a java checksum utility Software Name : Jacksum Website : http://jacksum.net/en/index.html Version : 1.7.0 Jacksum is a platform independent checksum utility (written entirely in Java) for computing and verifying (integrity check) checksums, CRC and hashes (fingerprints). It supports 58 popular hash algorithms and a lot of unique features. The Jacksum is a freeware tool and…
Introduction of RFT(Rational Functional Testing) Functional Tester is available in two integrated development environments and two scripting languages. Functional Tester, Java™ Scripting uses the Java language and the IBM® Rational® Software Delivery Platform. Functional Tester, VB.NET Scripting uses the VB.NET language and the Microsoft® Visual Studio .NET development environment. Use Functional Tester to: Perform full…
Table of Contents Agile Development Challenges Deployment Challenges Build Acceleration Challenges Integration with Elastic and Cloud Computing Workflow Management Reference: Agile Development Challenges Two of the core principles of agile development are: “deliver working code frequently” and “working software is the primary measure of progress.” More and more teams, from ISVs to enterprise IT…
Bamboo Disappointment Being a big fan of Atlassian’s Confluence and Jira, it was with much anticipation that installed Bamboo, the continuous integration (CI) engine they’ve released. Perhaps these high expectations led to my ultimate disappointment with Bamboo, but truly the features I’ve come to expect in a commercial CI product are nowhere to be found….
Difference between Bamboo Vs TeamCity Vs CruiseControl TEAMCITY TC pre-tested commit is good. TC integrates to Visual Studio which is our main IDE. JetBrains are more focused on supporting .NET builds than Atlassian is, since JetBrains actually has .NET products so they use it internally. Support for .Net projects, as well as Java, in the…
Bamboo – A Continues Integration Server Continuous integration (CI) brings faster feedback to your development process, preventing bugs from piling up and reducing the risk of project delays. Bamboo enables development teams of any size to adopt CI in minutes, easily integrate it with their work day and scale their build farm using elastic resources…
Deployment Foundation Issues Establish Key Roles/Charter for Deployment The very first order of business is to firmly establish “who’s on first” for getting deployment done. Senior management is crucial at this point for making sure all their direct reports and managers are on board with this and that it comes from the top. I mention…
Why Worry About Versioning? Having a good version scheme for your software is important for several reasons. The following are the top five things a version scheme allows you to do (in random order): Track your product binaries to the original source files. Re-create a past build by having meaningful labels in your source tree….
Recommendation from Microsoft’s Software Configuration Management Best Practices Build Management Recommendation Recommendation for Defining a Build Define terms in your development process, and keep a glossary of them on an internal build Web page. If you like, standardize on the definitions in this chapter. Clean build your complete product at least once per week, or…
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An issue tracking system (also called trouble ticket system or incident ticket system) is a computer software package that manages and maintains lists of issues, as needed by an organization. Issue tracking systems are commonly used in an organization’s customer support call center to create, update, and resolve reported customer issues, or even issues reported…
If you have any of the following questions in your mind, then this article is the perfect destination for you. How to copy VSS project from one VSS database to another one without loosing history How to move VSS project from one location to another location Moving Visual SourceSafe projects or databases to a new…
Microsoft recommends against using multiple VSS databases in simple cases. The support that was in some earlier versions of the product using Data Path doesn’t seem to work at all well in some cases. And at first it can seem that VSS isn’t even capable of operating with multiple databases. On the other hand, there…
Question: How to Archive VSS Project in Visual Source Safe (VSS)? How to Restore VSS Project in Visual Source Safe (VSS)? What is SSARC Utility? What is SSRESTOR Utility? SSARC Utility Allows you to archive files, projects, or old versions from a Visual SourceSafe database. Each time you run SSARC (Ssarc.exe), the utility asks only…
1. Create a new SRCSAFE.INI file and place it in the desired location. 2. If you want include the default SRCSAFE.INI in the unique copy, add the following line: #INCLUDE <SS path>\SRCSAFE.INI 3. Create the following environment variable: SET SSDIR=<path to VSS directory> (such as SET SSDIR = \\MyServer\MyVSSdir) While it is possible to do…
Several tasks take arguments that will be passed to another process on the command line. To make it easier to specify arguments that contain space characters, nested arg elements can be used. value – a single command-line argument; can contain space characters. file – The name of a file as a single command-line argument; will…
As I have mentioned in a previous blog entry, I have come to love using ANT in my development environment. One of the things that I like about it is how well it integrates with my Subversion repository using SVNAnt. If you are not using either ANT or Subversion, you owe it to yourself and…
This post is about using ANT to perform some of the most common source-control related tasks such as export, tagging, and branching. I am using ANT version 1.7.0 and SVN Ant version 1.1-rc3, bound against Subversion 1.4.0. The related software can be downloaded here: 1. SVN Ant = http://subclipse.tigris.org/svnant.html 2. ANT = http://ant.apache.org/ I shall…
Version: It is a set of code to which major/minor or a Patch of changes is made. Hence we say a build is released to the QA team for testing. Version is normally the Proper number given for the final package after fixing all issues. Normally in most Cases both numbers, version & build are…
AntForm is a java tool designed to add interaction to Ant scripts through graphical forms. If you’re new to Ant, start at the Ant site (see website: http://ant.apache.org/). Ant is used extensively used in the java world to automate system-level tasks, mostly (but not exclusively) as a software build system. Why use AntForm? Because automation…
You could access all Java system properties directly via ${name}, e.g. ${user.name}, ${user.dir}, ${user.home}, … You could read environment properties and use them <properties environment=”env”/> ${env.ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE} e.g. ${env.USERPROFILE}, ${env.USERNAME}, ${env.PATH} You could pass properties during Ants start ant -Dname=value -Danothername=anothervalue Also you Ant could ask for input <input addproperty=”foo”/> …
Set properties HOMEDIR in build.xml which will be set through user logged in the current system.. Example: <project name=”test” default=”myhome”> <property environment=”env”/> <target name=”myhome”> <echo message=”My home is ${env.HOME}”/> </target> </project>
To use this code, you need to have the file build.number containging: major.number=1 minor.number=0 hotfix.number=0 revision.number=0 continuous.number=0 Then the following 3 targets: <taskdef resource=”net/sf/antcontrib/antlib.xml”/> <taskdef name=”unset” classname=”ise.antelope.tasks.Unset”/> <target name=”initBuildNum” description=”Get current build number properties”> <property file=”build.number”/> <var name=”next.major” value=”${major.number}”/> <var name=”next.minor” value=”${minor.number}”/> <var name=”next.hotfix” value=”${hotfix.number}”/> <var name=”next.revision” value=”${revision.number}”/> <var name=”next.continuous” value=”${continuous.number}”/> </target> <target name=”getBuildNum”>…
The default action is to add or replace zipfile entries from list, which can include the special name – to compress standard input. If zipfile and list are omitted, zip compresses stdin to stdout. -f freshen: only changed files -u update: only changed or new files -d delete entries in zipfile -m move…
What is Ant-Contrib Tasks? The Ant-Contrib project provides a collection of tasks and types that extend Ant to work as a scripting language as well as a build tool. Many developers want more from Ant than the ability to define dependencies. Ant-Contrib adds extra functionality to let Ant act more like a programming lanuage. Most…
1. Grand: Graphical Representation of ANT Dependencies: Grand is a tool to create visual representation of ant target dependencies. It differs from tools like Vizant or AntGraph by a totally different approach, relying on the Ant API rather than parsing directly the XML files. This enables Grand to provide some nifty features such as the…