Monthly Archives: April 2008

Use Yahoo! Pipes For Manipulating RSS Feeds

Posted on April 30, 2008 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

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 … Continue reading →

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

Posted on April 28, 2008 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

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 … Continue reading →

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A very complete article on Hudson (in French)

Posted on April 17, 2008 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

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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Paris JUG with Kirk Pepperdine

Posted on April 14, 2008 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

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 … Continue reading →

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JavaPosse mentions 200th release of Hudson

Posted on April 11, 2008 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

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. … Continue reading →

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CITCON Denver is over, all hail CITCON Melbourne

Posted on April 8, 2008 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

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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Merging lists in a Spring configuration file

Posted on April 2, 2008 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

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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Sonar and Maven

Posted on April 1, 2008 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

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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