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Perforce: Why do you make simple things hard?

In Perforce: Just A Faster CVS? Simon Harris says:

So, it’s 7am-ish and I’ve had 6 or so hours of sleep to ruminate on this but yup, from a developers perspective, I still think Perforce sucks. I like to work offline, a lot, on planes, trains and in taxi-cabs; I like [...]

Buildix - The Agile Development Platform on a disk

Buildix is an agile development platform on a disk. Those folks at ThoughtWorks decided that creating a Knoppix based distribution that is a “load and run” development server was a great idea; and I agree. Chris Read, a ThoughtWorker known for his Build Master tendencies, describes Buildix as:

The whole point of [...]

Better Builds With Maven available as a free download.

Interested in Maven? This book is probably for you and it’s free (after registration.) Here’s a glimpse at what it covers:

An introduction to Maven 2.0 Advanced tools for “power” users Creating J2EE builds and using J2EE models Extending builds through plugins Monitoring source code, testing, [...]