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Multi-Site Servers - Get it Right I've been involved in database development for 30 years and CM development for over a quarter century. I'm confused. Why is it so difficult to get working multi-site solutions? The specification is clear, to start off anyway: I want to see the same thing whether my client is connected to the London server or the New York server. |
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The Importance of Software Builds: Building Earnestly Building your application is key to a successful, repeatable, development process. A reproducible build that works at all levels allows you to proceed with confidence and be more agile. Yet many organizations (agile and not) leave the build process to chance, even though all can benefit, regardless of their method. |
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Aircraft Carrier Called the "CM" In the past, I had a window view of the Boston Harbor from my office. I could see boats coming in an out, including numerous tour boats, whale watch boats, and sail boats. Occasionally, I got the chance to see the large ships including the tankers, battleships, tall ships (e.g., elegant large sailing ships), and the rare site of an aircraft carrier. The aircraft carrier is a floating runway for jets. Imagine the infrastructure needed to get those incredibly fast jets ready and flying.
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SCM Patterns: Building on Task-Level Commit “Dad,” asked a young man, “my lady friends keep talking to me about being ‘involved with’ them versus being ‘committed to’ them. What exactly is the difference between involvement and commitment?” “What did you have for breakfast, son?” his father replied. “Bacon and eggs like always. Why do you ask?” said the son. “Bacon and eggs, my boy, is a perfect illustration of the difference between involvement and commitment: the chicken was involved, but the pig was committed!” |
Austin Hastings
December 5, 2005 |
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How to Implement Continuous Integration The term “continuous integration” is getting a bit of attention these days. It refers to the process of integrating often (or immediately) to reduce integration effort, complexity, and pain.It allows for others make changes more readily. While the term “continuous” is catchy, it is not accurate in what the concept implies. In context to integration, it implies a process without interruption. |
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Learning from Concurrent, Parallel, and Distributed Systems Design This month we do a bit of a context switch from the world of parallel development to the world of concurrent, parallel, and distributed systems design (and then back again). The purpose is to see if any of the same patterns of concurrent, parallel, and distributed processing apply to the case of concurrent, parallel, and distributed development. |
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Integrated Tools Enhance Distributed Development When I look at the prospect of a distributed development effort, it scares me. So much depends on having the right people and good communicators, all in the right places. It also depends on the successful merging of cultures, but more and more distributed development is taking place. |
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Moving Dependency Tracking Into The CM Process Last month I spent a bit of time describing how a CM tool could support the creation and comparison of builds, to support the building of multiple variants, etc., based on a single baseline. This month, I will focus on how the CM tool can simplify the build process, moving the process out of "Make" files while supporting the creation of reusable, layered software. |
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Using Merge To Yank A Change I'll keep this one short. If you have a change that has been made to a file (or even to a change package of files) somewhere in the past and you would like to eliminate that change from the past, you can do so with a judicious use of almost any merge tool. |
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Changes: The Crossroads Between Project CM and Product CM Project perspective or product perspective - what's the best way to look at configuration management. Well... both. We'll journey through both sides, giving this author's perspective of each, and showing how changes form the crossroads between project CM and product CM. Right off the bat, we'll need to agree on some definitions. |
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