Archives for Giancarlo Lionetti

What is Version Control: Diffs and Patches

Much of the blog content was written in conjunction with Steve Losh. Steve is a programmer, photographer, blues dancer and musician. Check out Steve's projects to see some of the cool things he has worked on, or jump over to his Bitbucket account and get straight to the source. Making the Switch to Distributed Version Control Many individuals, teams, and organizations are thinking about making the switch to distributed version control systems a la Git and Mercurial (Hg). This is the first post

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Bamboo 3.4 Holiday Release – Git Submodules and EC2 Windows Support

Bamboo 3.4 is ready for download and ready to spread a little joy for the holidays. This release provides some gifts for our Git users and will bring joy to those expanding their continuous integration process into the cloud. What’s New in Bamboo? Improved Git Support & Compatibility Git users can get more out of Bamboo during their holiday break. Satisfying many votes from our Git users, Bamboo's integration with Git is now compatible with Git submodules. Git submodules are simply a reference

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The Bamboo Task Master Challenge – The Winner

The Bamboo Task Master Challenge provided the community with some great new Bamboo Task plugins, but there could only be one winner. The Task Master The winner, the champ, the Bamboo Task Master is... This was a very close vote and a huge congrats goes out to Maxim Kuzmich and the Stiltsoft team. What does the Bamboo VMware Task do? Many Bamboo users utilize virtual environments (VMware) to help power their CI process, but they do not need to be powered on all the time. By adding this

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Performance Testing meets Continuous Integration – Bamboo and Blitz

This is a guest blog post by Kowsik Guruswamy, CTO for Mu Dynamics, the company that powers Blitz. Kowsik is a self proclaimed cloud junkie that can reconcile big data with packets. A Pig of a Problem We all know what happens when your app performs like a pig. You lose users, customers and revenue. Your app is slow, the failing pigs don’t amuse your customers and you hear about it as the trending topic on Twitter. In most cases you don’t even know that it’s slow until you push the app into

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Last Call: The Bamboo Task Master Challenge

All contests must come to an end, but you still have a little more time to get your last minute entry in for the Bamboo Task Master Challenge. There is still time What is a Task? Bamboo Tasks can create integrations with the apps you use every day, like Google App Engine, Heroku, Ruby on Rails and heaps more. We have already seen great submissions featuring integrations with Twitter and Twilio – what will your Task do? . How do I enter? Write a Task & tell us why it's great! We even

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Continuously Deploy with Bamboo and Deployit

This is a guest blog post by Vincent Partington, CTO and Co-founder of XebiaLabs. Vincent saw a need to standardize deployment automation that gave way to a the startup - XebiaLabs - makers of Deployit. Over the past five to ten years, continuous integration has become a no-brainer for every medium to large scale software development project. It's hard to imagine going back to not having every commit (or push) automatically trigger a build and a test run of the code. That test run would have surely

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