Today DZone release a new Refcardz for Ant: Getting Started with Apache Ant. This DZone Refcard will provide you with the perfect resource to help you automate software build processes with Apache Ant. Included is a description of the Anatomy of an Ant Script along with a number of tables detailing, among others: Core Java [...]
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ramblings of a coldfusion developer
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Over the last few days I’ve been reworking one of my build files and needed to be able to pass in an argument at run time, which is easy to do using the command line. But I became curious if there was any way to do it running the script within Eclipse. Turns out it [...]
I have a few build scripts that take some time to run and I hate staring at the Eclipse console to see how things are progressing. I've heard of Growl before and today decided to see if I could make this work to popup notices during my build. Growl is originally for the Mac but [...]
Marc Escher ( http://mxunit.org/ ) gave a great presentation at CFUnited on automation: batch files, Ant, launchers and Jetty. One thing that came up during the discussion was a replacement for Scheduled Tasks on Windows which I (and apparently others) have found unreliable. Since I'm a Linux geek I'm familiar with cron on Linux and [...]
I was reading Glyn Jackson's insightful review of ColdFusion Builder and it got me thinking. It's been years since I've worked in a shop where we used FTP to deploy files. I always felt that manual FTP was the worst possible way to move files around (this was before I discovered Ant). I ended up [...]