Building new software from scratch is one of life’s great pleasures for a developer. It gives us a chance to “do it right” that we typically don’t have when doing maintenance work. More often than not though, we find ourselves working on an older system and need to work around old decisions made by long … Read More
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Joel Confino is a long-time consultant at Chariot Solutions. He has spent the last four years working with a large enterprise, here named ABC Corporation, rolling out a new development platform and build process. Joel was one of two speakers at our event, which also included Sonatype’s Jason Van Zyl. Joel’s focus was building in … Read More
In my previous post I explained why I think you should use Jenkins (or his twin Hudson), Nexus, and Sonar to super-charge your Maven builds. To summarize, Jenkins is a continuous integration server that runs your builds, Nexus is an artifact repository that versions and stores your jars/wars/zips/etc, and Sonar is a metrics server that … Read More
