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How to install git on Ubuntu Karmic

git-1.6.6 is assumed (at the time of writing)
pretty simple:

$ sudo aptitude install build-essential
$ sudo aptitude install zlib1g-dev
$ mkdir ~/Downloads/git
$ cd !$
$ wget http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-1.6.6.tar.gz
$ tar xvfz git-1.6.6.tar.gz
$ cd git-1.6.6/
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install
$ git

What is an Application Lifecycle Automation Server and how does it differ from a Build Management Server?

The basic difference between a Build Management Server (BMS) and an Application Lifecycle Automation Server (ALA) is that the BMS is focused strictly on the build process while the ALA coordinates the build process, build promotions, and deployments, and thus weaves together all stages of the Application Lifecycle from development to release and into maintenance.

FogBugz 7 and the Australians.

Joel Spolsky wrote a nice article about their vision statement for the upcoming FogBugz 7 release.
I especially liked the
“Every little feature will be a delight for somebody, especially that person who keeps emailing us because he can’t believe that the feature he wants which is obviously only six lines of code hasn’t been implemented in [...]

Customizing a PrimePress Wordpress theme

Replace images

Header banner images are 920px × 150px
located @ http://blog/wp-content/themes/primepress/headers/
where to look for images?

www.flickr.com
www.sxc.hu

Why did I choose Atlassian suite for my company?

From a slide stack I presented to the overlords:
Why Atlassian?
Atlassian suite provides highly integrated modern comprehensive lifecycle tools that are fully integrated and provide capabilities for the application development infrastructure needed to meet the needs of the most modern development communities.
Atlassian: unified approach
Unified approach to the life cycle: At any time, business analysts, programmers, testers and [...]

What packaging tool to choose for AIX deployments?

rpm vs. installp
It seems it was  impossible for a long time to find an installp-experienced engineer outside IBM. rpm on the other hand has been freely available for years. For scripty type stuff there should be no special considerations for AIX so the large body of experience, knowledge and example code available for rpm on [...]

Windows PowerShell Execution policy

The first time you try to execute a script from PowerShell you will most likely have to change the execution policy for PowerShell. It is recommended to set it to RemoteSigned. This would mean that all remote scripts must be signed or PowerShell will refuse to execute them. To change the execution policy:
Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned
If you’re [...]

Livescribe logs of CITCON Brisbane ‘09

“Enterprise CI roadmap and maturity model”

http://www.livescribe.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/LDApp.woa/wa/MLSOverviewPage?sid=KhQpzh49pwBh

“How much functional testing is enough”

http://www.livescribe.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/LDApp.woa/wa/MLSOverviewPage?sid=CP6SmJ2n56L4
http://www.livescribe.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/LDApp.woa/wa/MLSOverviewPage?sid=98Fxgdk2Nv6v
http://www.livescribe.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/LDApp.woa/wa/MLSOverviewPage?sid=F7LGsQj8DX0j

“Is scrum evil?”

http://www.livescribe.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/LDApp.woa/wa/MLSOverviewPage?sid=VW2kFW8JsHzj

“How to make CI stick”

http://www.livescribe.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/LDApp.woa/wa/MLSOverviewPage?sid=NRJfDsdv4z2H

“Extending CI past traditional development”

http://www.livescribe.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/LDApp.woa/wa/MLSOverviewPage?sid=P7Ggkg1KLgwD

“Wrap-up session”

http://www.livescribe.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/LDApp.woa/wa/MLSOverviewPage?sid=KhQpzh49pwBh

Install and configure PMD on CentOS 5.3

cd /opt
mkdir static_analysis
cd static_analysis/
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/pmd/pmd-bin-4.2.5.zip
unzip pmd-bin-4.2.5.zip
ln -s pmd-4.2.5/ pmd

to be continued…

How to promote artifacts

Chris has been tasked with implementing a process to control the promotion and deployment of application builds. The project for which Chris is implementing this process is a typical three-tiered web application, with some static content to be served by an HTTP server, dynamic content that needs to run on an application server, and a [...]