devops

For the longest time I’ve been writing Java build files in XML and I’ve always felt a little dirty. Not too long ago I was re-introduced to rake by a colleague (thanks Fabio) and how nicely it integrates with ant. This means that you can now turn this: <project name="spring-conversations" default="build" basedir="."> <property name="src.dir" location="src/main" /> <property name="test.dir" location="src/test" /> <property name="build.dir" location="build" /> <property name="dist.dir" location="${build.dir}/dist" /> <property name="report.dir" location="${build....

Logging - this is something we as developers do very badly - perhaps we need to ban the debugger. Unless you've worked in first-line support or in OPS, the only time you ever look at a log file is as a last resort. This is unfortunate, since the last resort may occur when you are trying to figure out why someone has lost money or when your company is about to be sued by a client (usually for losing their money, video, kids photo, etc)....