Disadvantages of Bamboo – Bamboo Expert Review
Bamboo Disappointment Being a big fan of Atlassian’s Confluence and Jira, it was with much anticipation that installed Bamboo, the continuous integration (CI) engine they’ve released. Perhaps these high expectations…
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Bamboo Vs TeamCity Vs CruiseControl – Continuous Integration Expert Review
Difference between Bamboo Vs TeamCity Vs CruiseControl TEAMCITY TC pre-tested commit is good. TC integrates to Visual Studio which is our main IDE. JetBrains are more focused on supporting .NET…
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Bamboo – A Continuous Integration Server – Complete Guide
Bamboo – A Continues Integration Server Continuous integration (CI) brings faster feedback to your development process, preventing bugs from piling up and reducing the risk of project delays. Bamboo enables…
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Deployment Foundation Issues
Deployment Foundation Issues Establish Key Roles/Charter for Deployment The very first order of business is to firmly establish “who’s on first” for getting deployment done. Senior management is crucial at…
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Why Worry About Versioning? – Versioning Complete guide
Why Worry About Versioning? Having a good version scheme for your software is important for several reasons. The following are the top five things a version scheme allows you to…
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Build Management Recommendation – Build Management Guidance
Recommendation from Microsoft’s Software Configuration Management Best Practices Build Management Recommendation Recommendation for Defining a Build Define terms in your development process, and keep a glossary of them on an…
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List of Free Issue Tracking / Bug Tracking System
An issue tracking system (also called trouble ticket system or incident ticket system) is a computer software package that manages and maintains lists of issues, as needed by an organization….
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How to copy VSS project from one VSS database to another one without loosing history
If you have any of the following questions in your mind, then this article is the perfect destination for you. How to copy VSS project from one VSS database to…
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Considerations for Multiple VSS Databases – Pros and Cons
Microsoft recommends against using multiple VSS databases in simple cases. The support that was in some earlier versions of the product using Data Path doesn’t seem to work at all…
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SSARC Utility & SSRESTOR Utility – Archive, Restore VSS Project – Guide
Question: How to Archive VSS Project in Visual Source Safe (VSS)? How to Restore VSS Project in Visual Source Safe (VSS)? What is SSARC Utility? What is SSRESTOR Utility? SSARC…
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How To Create a Unique SRCSAFE.INI File ?
1. Create a new SRCSAFE.INI file and place it in the desired location. 2. If you want include the default SRCSAFE.INI in the unique copy, add the following line: #INCLUDE…
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Understand Ant command line arguments with Examples
Several tasks take arguments that will be passed to another process on the command line. To make it easier to specify arguments that contain space characters, nested arg elements can…
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ANT Builds and Subversion (SVN) | Ant integration with Subversion guide
As I have mentioned in a previous blog entry, I have come to love using ANT in my development environment. One of the things that I like about it is…
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How to Use SVN Tasks with ANT ?
This post is about using ANT to perform some of the most common source-control related tasks such as export, tagging, and branching. I am using ANT version 1.7.0 and SVN…
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Software versioning – What is Build Versioning?
Version: It is a set of code to which major/minor or a Patch of changes is made. Hence we say a build is released to the QA team for testing….
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What are AntForm / AntMenu? Usage, Installation Process and Examples
AntForm is a java tool designed to add interaction to Ant scripts through graphical forms. If you’re new to Ant, start at the Ant site (see website: http://ant.apache.org/). Ant is…
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How to access all Java system properties directly?
You could access all Java system properties directly via ${name}, e.g. ${user.name}, ${user.dir}, ${user.home}, … You could read environment properties and use them <properties environment=”env”/> ${env.ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE} e.g. …
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SET UNIX HOME DIR PROPERTY using ANT
Set properties HOMEDIR in build.xml which will be set through user logged in the current system.. Example: <project name=”test” default=”myhome”> <property environment=”env”/> <target name=”myhome”> <echo message=”My home…
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How to use ant Script to Reset BuildNumber?
To use this code, you need to have the file build.number containging: major.number=1 minor.number=0 hotfix.number=0 revision.number=0 continuous.number=0 Then the following 3 targets: <taskdef resource=”net/sf/antcontrib/antlib.xml”/> <taskdef name=”unset” classname=”ise.antelope.tasks.Unset”/> <target name=”initBuildNum” description=”Get…
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WinZip commands Web References & Cheatsheet
The default action is to add or replace zipfile entries from list, which can include the special name – to compress standard input. If zipfile and list are omitted, zip…
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Ant : Ant-Contrib – Introduction and Installation Process/Guide
What is Ant-Contrib Tasks? The Ant-Contrib project provides a collection of tasks and types that extend Ant to work as a scripting language as well as a build tool. Many…
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Graphical Representation of ANT | Ant Flow Chart | Visual representation
1. Grand: Graphical Representation of ANT Dependencies: Grand is a tool to create visual representation of ant target dependencies. It differs from tools like Vizant or AntGraph by a totally…
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Ant’s built-in properties – Ant Properties Guide
This is a simple example that illustrates how to find the basedir name, file name, project name, ant version, java version, operating system name, ant home directory name, java home…
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How to Resolve Apache Ant Copy and Include Issues – Ant Guide
Question: Why Copy in ant is not working if I am putting includes separately? Ant version: Apache Ant version 1.5.4 compiled on January 8 2005. Program 1 is not working…
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Copy and Include Issues in Apache Ant | Ant Troubleshooting Guide
Question: Why Copy in ant is not working if I am putting includes separately? Ant version: Apache Ant version 1.5.4 compiled on January 8 2005. Program 1 is not working…
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Perforce Web References & Cheatsheet
A way to remember data-mining commands The following is a set of questions that will be used during the Perforce training to remind students which “data-mining” commands to use for…
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Windows XP/2000 Commands & Tools | Windows XP Command-line Reference
Here’s the ultimate Windows XP/2000 command list that will make any Linux user feel at home at the command prompt. A lot of these commands are intended for administrating a…
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Command line switches of devenv.exe | Devenv command line switches Guide
To see this list, type devenv /? on command prompt /build – build the specified solution configuration /project – specifies the project to build instead of solution, must specify…
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Click & Download TOP useful Freeware software
Click & Download TOP useful Freeware software Office OpenOffice – office suite PC Suite 602 – office suite AbiWord – text editor Atlantis Nova – text editor Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer – power…
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