Within the last while I have ended up doing a whole bunch of merges on the maven-wrapper and the related takari-maven-plugin. In the end (fingers crossed) we are now at maven-wrapper: 0.5.4 and takari-maven-plugin:0.7.5. That includes a whole bunch of great changes …
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Easy Publishing to the Central Repository
I have been doing a lot of video tutorials in the past year or more. I should probably write about my tips on how to do that some time – not today though. Today I want to introduce you to a series of videos that will help you with publishing your artifacts to the Central Repository. After authoring a lot of the content for the Central Repository documentation, we set out to produce a short video series.
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You don’t do Repository Driven Development yet? Where have you been?
I have been doing a lot of software development and related work by now and there are some things I just don’t get. One of them is “Why are people not using repositories more?” and practice what I would call Repository Driven Development (RDD sic!). Once you are using them, the benefits are just so obvious, that it is hard to imagine why you would not want to allow easy reuse of your artifacts, seemless distribution, ease of use for your end users and more. But let’s step back for a second and start at the beginning. (more…)
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Git and github training
It is time again to get my skills brushed up to new levels. After getting Maven training from Matthew McCullough in the past I knew that git training from him would not disappoint. And since I use github every day and Matthew is THE github online trainer now I thought it should be worth my time to attend. Let’s see how I fared.
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Lean in Victoria
I have been interested in Extreme Programming and other agile methods for ages and with that came an interest in startup listening to ThisWeekInStartups, Mixergy, Stanford Enterpreneurial Thought Leadership and other podcasts for a long time. Of course I could not help finding out about the lean startup movement so when I heard that Eric Ries is coming to town I jumped at the chance to hear him speak. Let us see how it went..
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Automatically starting the emulator in your Android build
In the beginning writing apps for Android is easy. Then the usual things creep in. You start getting beyond Hello World examples and answers on mailing list, you begin refactoring code and features and you really need to make sure it runs on all platforms. Luckily there are helpers around. For the testing side of things the whole test suite around instrumentation tests is really great (although I wish they used testng and not junit as the base) and now this is finally really well documentation on the site and not just in the samples code somewhere. However if you really want to use these you have to run your build against a device or an emulator (or better both). And thats where the Maven Android Plugin comes in handy.
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