I’m working on a project with another developer and we’ve decided to create a branch for my changes. Heavy development continues in the trunk as well and I need to frequently merge the trunk into my branch. Being lazy of … Continue reading
I usually have something in my application where I can flip a bit and turn on “maintenance mode” which displays a friendly message to users and allows me to do updates knowing no one is accessing the application. Today we’ll … Continue reading
At my new job I’ve been using MySQL. When it got around to moving data around between servers and restoring my development database I looked at my existing scripts but they were all Oracle centric. I then looked to the … Continue reading
Today DZone release a new Refcardz for Ant: Getting Started with Apache Ant. This DZone Refcard will provide you with the perfect resource to help you automate software build processes with Apache Ant. Included is a description of the Anatomy … Continue reading
Over the last few days I’ve been reworking one of my build files and needed to be able to pass in an argument at run time, which is easy to do using the command line. But I became curious if … Continue reading
I have a few build scripts that take some time to run and I hate staring at the Eclipse console to see how things are progressing. I’ve heard of Growl before and today decided to see if I could make … Continue reading