A few days ago I migrated our build server, aptly named Bob (the Builder), to Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and incorporated a new product to the existing suite. The new product is Review Board, which we’ll be using for regular code reviews within our development team. I’ve written previously on the various products we use as [...]

The development environment I use at work has a number of tools that all interoperate with each other in various ways. One of the tools central to our work is TargetProcess. This integrates with Subversion to pull through all associated code changes, and provides a nice view of where we are in our projects. Another critical [...]

A while ago I mentioned that I’d set up Sonar as part of our continuous integration system here at G3. Every time I use it, I’m amazed at what a fantastic system it is. It’s incredible that such a seemingly small piece of software can be of such great value! One of my biggest combined [...]

When our team first began Java development on the SAP NetWeaver platform, we decided that we should start out using the tools that SAP provide for this purpose. The logic behind this decision was that SAP was best positioned to provide suitable development tools for their own platform. Even though this is fairly sound logic, [...]