Marc Escher ( http://mxunit.org/ ) gave a great presentation at CFUnited on automation: batch files, Ant, launchers and Jetty. One thing that came up during the discussion was a replacement for Scheduled Tasks on Windows which I (and apparently others) … Continue reading
I was reading Glyn Jackson’s insightful review of ColdFusion Builder and it got me thinking. It’s been years since I’ve worked in a shop where we used FTP to deploy files. I always felt that manual FTP was the worst … Continue reading
I’ve finally bundled up my Ant presentation files. I recently gave this presentation at TACFUG (Triangle Area ColdFusion User Group) and got some pretty positive feedback. Hopefully now with the examples – people who attended can hack these up and … Continue reading
Tinking around with Ant I found out you can reference system environment properties within your build file. So in Windows for example you can run SET at the command line and get a long list of properties: You can easily … Continue reading
I’m working on a build file for the Model-Glue project and want to make it as user friendly as possible. Turns out this is very easy in Ant! First always include a description in your build file – you can … Continue reading
Ok. I’m lazy. Really lazy. Today I got tired of having to click around in Eclipse to run my Ant tasks and decided to automate it with a shortcut in Autohotkey: Lets break this down: So the !r:: simply tells … Continue reading
Working on some Ant scripts and Oracle today and out of the blue I get this error: ORA-12638 credential retrieval failed Everything was working yesterday! I restarted Oracle and my workstation – no luck! Argh. A quick Google however turned … Continue reading
I’m trying to dust off my Ant Wiki and I’m looking for your Ant files! Do you use Ant to deploy projects? Condense JS and CSS? Mow the lawn? I’m looking for people’s real life Ant files which I hope … Continue reading