Archives for Justin Koke

Fedex V – Bamboo Firefox Plugin – Redux

So my last fedex day I started to stumble into the world of Firefox Plugin's, the result was a somewhat lame and only partially usable Bamboo plugin for Firefox. This time round I decided to have another crack at it, pick up from where I left off, and try to make this puppy shippable! So with my XUL utility belt and some JavaScript know how I got to work ... So my last fedex day I started to stumble into the world of Firefox Plugin's, the result was a somewhat lame and only partially usable Bamboo

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From manual to automatic

When Crowd first became an Atlassian product it was built using a bunch of ant scripts and lived in CVS, this is quite common for a lot of projects out there, but it is something that can be improved on. Over the last 6 months the Crowd team have taken a phased approach to moving Crowd into the world of Continuous Integration. Basically we have taken the following steps: Move from CVS to SVN Move from Ant to Maven 2 Add some level of test coverage, and build this into our development process Add

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Using XMLTask for Maven and Ant

I just thought I should share this great little gem I stumbled across last week when I was faced with this Crowd Issue. After a few quick searches on Google I came across this great little Ant library, XMLTask. After downloading the jar and having a quick read of the great example docs, I had resolved my issue in 5 minutes,"how awesome is that!" (as Justen would say ;) ) Here is a quick example of what I did: <!-- This will set Tomcat's HTTP Connector and SHUTDOWN ports --> <echo> Changing

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