Articles by Grant Smith
Grant Smith
Grant started writing software at the age of 12 when his father assembled a Sinclair ZX-81 in kit form, and he's been hooked on technology ever since. His experience with software development is as deep as it is unique -- he's been a programmer in the South African Army, IT manager at a merchant bank, VP of IT at a construction and property administration company, and he's an active committer to the Apache community of open source software projects. Grant currently resides in Oregon where he enjoys cycling, racquetball, geocaching, coaching and playing soccer, and spending time with his lovely wife and children.
A continuous integration (CI) engine is an automated build system that checks out the most current code from a source code repository, builds it, and makes the resulting artifacts available for download and review. This tutorial covers the setup of a continuous integration server for Java projects with Hudson, one of the top open source CI engines.
Maven is quickly becoming the de facto standard for Java project builds, but its reliance on a remote central repository somewhere on the Internet can be troublesome. This tutorial covers the setup of a local Maven proxy, including installation and configuration of Maven and the Nexus repository manager on a Linux server.
Poor planning is one of the top reasons why software projects are delivered late, over budget, or not at all, so it’s important to get organized before you start coding. In this article we survey some of the open source modeling tools available to help you streamline the development planning process.