Maven Plugins 0.2.5 – Artifactory Online, Maven Central!
Today I’m very excited to announce the availability of Maven Plugins v0.2.5! This version is not a regular update: it contains a great deal of infrastructural changes which I’ve been considering and working on for the past six months. Here it goes: My Artifactory repository has moved from evgeny-goldin.org/artifactory to Artifactory Online at evgenyg.artifactoryonline.com. What [...]
Maven build progress with TeamCity Service Messages
When you run a lengthy Maven build configuration in TeamCity it may be tricky to know what module is being built right now since all TeamCity displays is either “Running” or “Tests passed: X”. Luckily, TeamCity allows your build script to interact with the server using Service Messages. When you build script prints out the [...]
TeamCity Build Dependencies
This post is the second in a series of three blog posts dedicated to build dependencies. Part 1 – Maven Build Dependencies. Part 2 – TeamCity Build Dependencies. Part 3 – Artifactory Build Dependencies in TeamCity. Introduction The subject of build dependencies is neither a trivial nor a minor one. Various build tools approach this [...]
Maven Build Dependencies
This post is the first in a series of three blog posts dedicated to build dependencies. Part 1 – Maven Build Dependencies. Part 2 – TeamCity Build Dependencies. Part 3 – Artifactory Build Dependencies in TeamCity. Introduction The subject of build dependencies is neither a trivial nor a minor one. Various build tools approach this [...]
Shawn Achor: “The Happiness Advantage”
See the presentation and buy the book. One of the most influencing books I have read recently.
WordPress Performance Optimization (from 6 seconds to 1)
Since last week, this blog has a new name and a new look, but most importantly, it now loads faster. Over time I couldn’t but notice that the overall behavior was getting painfully slower. Surely, this blog uses “WordPress Super Cache” plugin but apparently caching wasn’t enough in order to improve performance so I decided [...]
Gradle CodeNarc Plugin Update
Gradle CodeNarc plugin was updated to match CodeNarc v0.17 released recently. Since Gradle now provides its own built-in plugin with flexible configuration you’d probably better switch to that one instead. I’m not going to kill my version of this plugin since I’m still using it in my Groovy projects. Note that starting from Gradle version [...]
Twitter RSS Feeds – Yes, We Can
Twitter never made it easy to follow people, lists or searches over RSS feed. In every case I had to search and try out various approaches to find those that work. Well, I’m finally able to follow all things Twitter in Google Reader and it just makes one less network to visit. It is sad [...]
Continuous Delivery and new makandracards
I have been working on a new Wiki page recently: Continuous Delivery. It summarizes major resources, ideas, techniques and tools around Continuous Delivery process. Also, I’ve started summarizing various steps to do something with makandracards. Try them out, they are really lovely. It is faster to work on a makandracard than to start a new [...]
“UI/UX and Continuous Deployment” video
ILTechTalks has met again and this time to discuss the issue of Continuous Deployment and UI development. First session was given by Ori Lahav (@orilahav) and Shaked Simchi from Outbrain and the seond one by Omri Nachman from Wix. Audio file (mp3) of the session. Audio file (mp3) of the session.
