Category Archives: agile

Developing a M2E 1.0.0 Configuration Plugin

Posted on July 1, 2011 by

I recently had to go through upgrading from Sonatype M2Eclipse 0.12 to Eclipse M2E 1.0.0.   A lot of stuff was fairly easy to get working again, as package names and extension point ids where under new package and ids. … Continue reading →

Posted in agile, eclipse, maven, testing, turmeric | 6 Comments

Maven XSLT Transformations

Posted on February 27, 2011 by

I’ve been migrating some builds away from Ant and over to Maven 3.   While in most cases I could use the maven ant plugin, to run most of the scripts, it is better to just adopt the new Maven … Continue reading →

Posted in agile, maven, xml, xsl, xslt | 2 Comments

>Learning to Adapt to new DVCS Workflows.

Posted on September 11, 2010 by

>In the Web Tools Incubator on the XQuery Project we just ran into a small snag with the Eclipse restrictions on how items arrive in the official Git repository. This is being discussed in bug 324768, and I think it’s … Continue reading →

Posted in agile, eclipse, git | 3 Comments

>Tip: Enabling JUnit Short Cuts

Posted on August 18, 2010 by

>If you are trying to practice Test Driven Development, creating JUnit tests in eclipse can be a real chore at times. I’m not talking about actually writing the tests, but trying to get easy access to the JUnit wizards. The … Continue reading →

Posted in agile, eclipse, testing | 3 Comments

>Back to Scrum

Posted on July 2, 2010 by

>Unfortunately in my day-to-day work until recently I had to work on some projects that had more resemblence to Waterfall methodology and less to do with Agile methodology. Fortunately, that is changing and I’ll be talking a bit more about … Continue reading →

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>Local Continuous Integration with Hudson and Git

Posted on April 6, 2010 by

>One of the practices from Continuous Integration is that builds should be run locally before committing to the main repository. Recently I’ve been working with Hudson and git to setup a local continuous integration server. With git I have a … Continue reading →

Posted in agile, build, eclipse, testig, xml | 3 Comments

>Bad Habit in Design: Concentrating on the 20%

Posted on October 27, 2009 by

>I was hit again today with a bad habit we can get into trying to solve a problem. At work we need a way to handle meeting and conference registration. However, instead of concentrating on addressing the 80% use case, … Continue reading →

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>Standards, Documentation, Single Sourcing, and Continuous Integration

Posted on September 15, 2009 by

>Over the last several years I’ve had the pleasure of working with many standard organizations. Many are trying to improve their development processes to meet the membership and the communities needs sooner. However, almost all have one area that still … Continue reading →

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>A Hudson Transition

Posted on September 12, 2009 by

>Working for a small company means you get to wear many different technology hats. Currently, I’m wearing my Build Engineer’s hat. Along with this hat comes the skill of a plate spinner. Keeping multiple systems building, and outputting effectively is … Continue reading →

Posted in agile, build, eclipse, xml | 2 Comments

>Agile Testing for Standards Organizations

Posted on August 3, 2009 by

>I jumped over to the Agile Development way of working several years ago. One of the problems with the way current standards are developed in my opinion is the fact that there is very little validation of the requirements. If … Continue reading →

Posted in agile, standards, testing, xml | 2 Comments