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Automated distribution creation (4)

Posted on 2008-09-07 by

In this series of posts, I talked about my continuing quest for the fully automated creation of a distribution for our product. I talked about downloading release notes from our issue tracker and how to add those to our NEWS … Continue reading →

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Automated distribution creation (3)

Posted on 2008-09-02 by

In previous posts, I talked about my continuing quest for the fully automated creation of a distribution for our product. First, I talked about downloading release notes from our issue tracker. Then I showed how to add those to our … Continue reading →

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Automated distribution creation (2)

Posted on 2008-06-28 by

In my previous post I talked about how I managed to automatically download the release notes from our issue tracker web site. These notes still needed adding to our NEWs file, which describes the changes between releases. There are really … Continue reading →

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Automated distribution creation

Posted on 2008-06-24 by

So we have this automated build with CruiseControl. It generates code, compiles, deploys, and tests. It’s saved my skin a gazillion times. It’s really great. But it could be even better. It could also build a complete distribution, making the … Continue reading →

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Importing large data sets

Posted on 2008-06-04 by

For performance testing, it is often necessary to import a large data set to test against. However, importing large data sets presents its own challenges. Below I want to give some tips on how to deal with those. Begin with … Continue reading →

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