Just posted the first of a few review/rants relating to CITCON at: http://www.talios.com/the_quest.htm Was great meeting everyone and putting faces to names...
Greetings CITCONers, Well, flush from the success of CITCON Sydney, we are getting ready for CITCON Europe. Sydney broke the record for the number of attendees...
In the selling agile session at CITCON sydney, we got to talking about possibly overhauling some 25 year old FORTRAN legacy code. I said get an final year...
In the context of a large system development project, we have a debate going on in our department right now between those who favor the use of a hierarchy of...
Pete, There are many approaches to dealing with this problem. Unfortunately, with large projects, there is no approach that is as simple or as "nice" as just...
HI Maciej, This is a very interesting conversation to me, as I am learning everything I can around technical management of development groups, and this is a...
Pete, It's not that branches are not a good solution for sandboxing; I just wanted to point out that they are not the only one and that there are downsides to...
Greetings CITCONers, If you are an active blogger, I have a request. Please help us get the word out about CITCON Brussels by blogging about it. Feel free to...
http://citconf.com/brussels2007/volunteer.php CITCON Brussels 2007 is approaching quickly…October 19 & 20. We are now seeking volunteers to help make this...
Greetings CITCONers, After much consideration, CITCON Asia-Pacific is schedule for June 20 & 21, 2008 in Melbourne, Australia. See the website for more...
Given the amount of spam pages I see going through the CITCON wiki - has anyone looked at switching to something which has a security/permissions model to...
Hi Mark, ... Our plan of record is to add a captcha for posting, we just haven't managed to get it done yet. Thank you for the reminder/gentle shove. Jtf...
Maybe I missed it, but is the location finalized for CITCON Brussels? The website still has it listed as "TBD" (which I'm assuming isn't the name of a hotel)....
Chris Turner
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Sep 18, 2007 2:35 am
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... Jtf and I are just finalizing the contract with the hotel. Pending final negotiations, the conference will be at the Thon hotel in Brussels. ...
Hei, We are about to purchase a new box to run our CI builds. I am wondering if CI users could make give an example of what kind of hardware they use. Our...
Jerome, What CI server are you using (CruiseControl, Hudson, Bamboo, etc) ? What are your needs for distributed builds and how will they be distributed, what...
regarding I/O: I always try to spread the load across several disk spindles - one for the build itself, one for the logs and artifacts, one for the OS and...
Julian Simpson
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Sep 24, 2007 12:58 pm
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... David, thanks for your answer. ... Today we use CruiseControl. We may change soon. ... I meant something closer to clustering than distributed, i.e. we...
It is going to be the Thon in Brussels. Expect details in the next 24 hours. Sorry for the delay. We had a lot of contract negotiation to conduct! See you...
Yeah, that can help. On the CPU side, builds tend to peg a CPU pretty easily so I like to have about one core per simultaneous build allocated to the build...
Methods & Tools is a free e-newsletter for software developers, testers and project managers. Fall 2007 issue's content: * Measuring Integrated Progress on...
... 24 hours. The one in the City (there are two Thon Hotels in Brussels). Thon Hotel Brussels City Centre Avenue du Boulevard 17 1210 Brussels, Belgium ...
I'd love to make it to this citcon, but unfortunately i can't. however, for those going, if you're interested in a wide selection of beverage in your after...
Richard Hands
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Sep 27, 2007 1:57 pm
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Greetings, Sorry for the delay, but the venue details have been finalized. CITCON Brussels will take place at: Thon Hotel Brussels City Centre Avenue du...