Eric Lefevre-Ardant on Java & Agile

April 30, 2008

Use Yahoo! Pipes For Manipulating RSS Feeds

Filed under: valtech — Eric Lefevre-Ardant @ 6:40 pm

With Pipes, I think Yahoo! has a really interesting and powerful solution. Yesterday, I did a quick demo to my colleagues during an internal Lightning Talks session showing how they could tune their blog feeds in order to integrate better in our corporate planet blog (still under development).

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April 28, 2008

Implementation of “Creating Change One Tic-Tac At a Time”

Filed under: subversion, valtech — Eric Lefevre-Ardant @ 1:21 pm

Those of you who came to CITCON London 2006 might remember the talk by Jeffrey of the same name (I have a couple of notes from back then, also see the entry for Agile 2007 conference and comments on Alistair Cockburn’s idea — Jeffrey & Alistair collaborated on that talk). This was also discussed at CITCON Brussels last year on a session arranged by Douglas Squirrel: Karma for Continuous Integration.

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April 17, 2008

A very complete article on Hudson (in French)

Filed under: valtech — Eric Lefevre-Ardant @ 5:36 pm

French developers seem to have adopted Hudson enthusiastically. A new article on Hudson by my colleague Romain Linsolas has been published on the influential developpez.com community.

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April 14, 2008

Paris JUG with Kirk Pepperdine

Filed under: paris jug — Eric Lefevre-Ardant @ 10:42 am

First slide

Another successful night with Paris JUG on Concurrency & Performances. For once, we had a guest star: Kirk Pepperdine, a seasoned practitioner of projects with performances issues (he worked on Cray machines, yes sir!). He managed to attract the largest crowd yet for Paris JUG: more than 80!
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April 11, 2008

JavaPosse mentions 200th release of Hudson

Filed under: hudson — Eric Lefevre-Ardant @ 8:07 am

The JavaPosse podcast #178 mentions that Hudson has reached version 1.200 in 2 years and a half. The hosts made jokes on the number of releases… well, by the time they aired on April 8th, Hudson had actually reached 1.205. And by the time I listened to the podcast on April 10th, we had reached 1.206. So there! ;-)

April 8, 2008

CITCON Denver is over, all hail CITCON Melbourne

Filed under: citcon, continuous integration, hudson, test — Eric Lefevre-Ardant @ 4:22 pm

The North-American edition of CITCON, the conference on Continuous Integration and Testing is over. Check out the session notes on the conference wiki.

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April 2, 2008

Merging lists in a Spring configuration file

Filed under: spring — Eric Lefevre-Ardant @ 10:09 am

Spring provides useful types for creating lists of values. However, it is not as good for merging lists. Here is an option.

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April 1, 2008

Sonar and Maven

Filed under: java, maven, sonar — Eric Lefevre-Ardant @ 2:24 pm

Fact to know: though it does not say so in the documentation, Sonar requires a fairly recent version of Maven. Version 2.0.4 failed, but 2.0.8 worked.

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