The JGit project from Eclipse has been working on Eclipse and Git integration. Their user guide mentions an ant task but doesn't show where to download the needed jars. If you knew a little java, you could grab the source and compile a couple from jgit's github account . I googled around and found...
In down time, I am working on setting up Jenkins at work. I have Jenkins, Git , and Ant playing nice. The next step was figuring out how to move the files to our ColdFusion server. My first inclination was to point the Jenkin's job workspace to the webroot. I asked on twitter @marcesher about that....
CFObjective 2010 - Continuous Integration, with Hudson, MXUnit, and ColdFusion April 22, 2010 1:45pm - 2:45pm central Marc Esher
CFHour() released a new podcast, IDE Talk. They talk about ColdFusion IDEs (integrating development editor) covering Homesite, Dreamweaver, and Eclipse with Aptana and CFEclipse. Audio level was tremendously better than last time. Two points, I would like to clarify about Eclipse they mention. 1)...
Next NECFUG meeting: July 22nd - Axel Jensen will be talking about the development process. More details to come. ---- Should be interesting. Axel is very passionate about Flex and ColdFusion. I heard the initial outline concept and it was covering how to use Subversion, Mylyn, ANT, and Trac. Very...
If you haven't heard of the vaScoper tool created and maintained by Mike Schierberl , it is definately worth checking out. It has the stamp of approval of Raymond Camden and Sean Corfield . Here is a varScoper ant target recently added to the MXUnit build ant. Download both tools and give them a...
I watched Qasim Rasheed's CFUnited presentation on Continuous Integration with SVN, ANT, CFUnit & Selenium . I picked up a fundamental concept , Conditional Execution, and a cool trick . The concept was the if and unless attribute of an ant target. I have read about them but it was great to see...
I have been working on a build.xml file for work that updates the local working copy, runs MXunit tests, create JUnit reports based on MXunit results, minifies js/css , grabs only modified files between revisions , crunches ColdFusion files, checks compile errors, and also will check for unscoped...
I have revisited adding Yui compressor into my work's ant build script to minify JS and CSS scripts. The current jar was yuicompressor-2.3.5.jar . It took a lot of playing around but I finally stumbled on how to get it to work. Here is the snippet for the yuicompressor. I had to jump through a...
Here is my attempt to be able to pull a revision range from an svn repository. The ant script runs an svn log command, sets up the directory structure, then pulls the files down from the svn repository using an ant get command. It works but isn't pretty. Any deleted files will be tried to be pulled...
Very interestng two tools every ColdFusion Developer should already be using are highlighted in developersWorks - IBM's resource for Developers.... Debug and tune applications on the fly with Firebug Save time when you monitor, analyze, and edit live Web pages Integrate external tools and builders...
Using ANT: Making your development life more productive - CF.Objective 2008 Peter Farrell Great information and well presented. My notes Update: Peter's presentation pdf
I watched Mark Esher's presention " ANT On The Wire: Using FTP, Email, SVN, and VSS " a couple weeks ago and liked the idea of scheduling an ant to do my SVN updates before I get into the office. He was kind enough to provide a zip of his files from the presention. Please watch the presentation to...
I had this issue, Malformed uxxxx encoding, when moving an ant variable into a properties file. I found this solution after a little hunting. http://tinyurl.com/27ddb9 Solution: Make sure you use '/' in all directory vars
I started blogging toward the end of Aug 2007. Here are my top 5 content of 2007 via Google Analytics stats. Happy New Year! Adding JS/CSS compression and JS validation using YUI Compressor, JSLint, and jsmin to ant script Coldfusion with Selenium ant script Show Us Ur CFEclipse perspective layout?...
Jim Priest found a cool Eclipse plugin to visualize ant targets and properites from yworks called Ant Explorer . I installed it and took a quick look. It seems interesting. Update Site URL: http://www.yworks.com/eclipse/update
This expands on my first entry of using sql results from ant to do other ant process with sql results. This Ant script will store SQL results as an XML file and extracting the values using two different techniques, xmlproperty and xmltask . I use a for loop which comes from Ant-Contrib ....
Come Work With Me in addition to what the generic posting says, we are a small group. I started in January and love it. My manager is out of Portland and another coder is from Souix City, IA so there is a chance for telecommuting. The office is based out of Omaha, NE. I come and work with the DBAs...
I have been pretty busy with a quick trip to San Fransisco for a couple baseball games and siteseeing last week but today, I came across an interesting article about Browser Tests, Services and Compatibility Test Suites . Smashing Magazine seem to always have quailty posts. What stood out was the...
I have been wanting to do a Selenium ant script since John Paul Ashenfelter's presentation on Testing CF applications @ CFUnited 2007. Selenium is a test tool for web applications. It has a very simple html table structure for creating suites and tests. I use Selenenium IDE for Firefox to create...
updated script - Minify CSS/JS ant revisited using YUI compressor ------- I have been expanding Alistair Davidson's wonderful General ANT build and release scripts . I added js and css minifying shown in Building Web Applications With Apache Ant along with javascript validation through jslint ....
My first attempt to create an ant using sql results within the ant script. I am using MSSQL as my db server. The example expects ant and sql are setup. Several good blogs covering how to ant and sql setup . My next attempt will try to store the SQL result as XML, and extracting the values. This...