September

This is the archive for September, 2008.

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  • Reactor: My New Favourite Maven Plugin

    Dan recently put together a great new plugin to manipulate the Maven reactor, currently being voted on for release.
    It has a few goals:

    reactor:resume - pick up where a previous build left off
    reactor:make / make-dependents - make a project and its dependencies or those that depend on it
    reactor:make-scm-changes - make any projects that have uncommitted changes […]

  • Maven Training and Talks at ApacheCon in November

    ApacheCon US, this year in New Orleans, is almost upon us already!
    I’ve got a busy conference this year. Firstly on November 4, there is a full day training entitled Apache Maven, End-to-end:
    This training session will walk through the lifecycle of developing a typical Java application from creation to deployment, and show how to use […]

  • Apache Maven 2.1.0-M1 Released

    Apache Maven 2.1, milestone 1 has been released.
    From John’s announcement:
    This release signals the beginning of a new direction in the development of Maven. Recently, Maven’s development efforts were split into three major goals. First, the Maven 2.0.x code line will be minimally maintained for regression fixes; the 2.0.x series should be […]

  • Sydneysiders: Java User Group tomorrow!

    I’m not usually available on Thursday nights, but am making an exception to attend this month’s Sydney JUG. John Smart, of Java Power Tools fame, will be talking about behaviour driven development and easyB.

    Behavior Driven Development (BDD) in Java with easyb John Ferguson Smart
    John Ferguson Smart is a freelance consultant specializing in enterprise Java, Web […]

  • The Secret Behind Google Chrome

     When I saw this panel, I just couldn’t resist…

    I’ll certainly check out Chrome on Windows, though the key will be how it goes on a Mac for me. Today I use Safari because of the OS integration and speed, though I occasionally miss an extension or two that I will run Firefox for. Both Firefox […]