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LinuxQuality & Testing

ServerSupportGuys - server down for 12 hours despite 5 min response SLA

A 12 hours Apache flatline

Once again a big disappointment with a “server management” company called Server Support Guys (SSG from ByteFortress, SSG for ServerSupportGuys) left my server down for 12 hours

DrupalQuality & Testing

No Tabs allowed in your text

Just today I wanted to checkout the drupal freelancer portal drupalancers and wanted to post a job there I got these two WEIRD errors I just tried to post a project and got these two >The ; character is not…

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Google's Software Principles

Software Principles proposed by Google shall be seen as an open proposal to help fight deceptive Internet software… It looks like Google is on its way to the multi-channel, multi-strategy company – probably creating a portfolio including more that a…

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CVS Reporting and Statistics Tools

Looking for some convenient way to to get a 4000 meter view on my project's CVS I found pretty interesting projects that could maybe help … Cvsplot free and should plot nice graphs with GnuPlut CVS Monitor looks really pro,...

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Top 15 Ant Best Practices

Before Ant, building and deploying Java applications required a hodgepodge of platform-specific scripts, makefiles, proprietary IDEs, or manual processes. Now, nearly every open source Java project uses Ant. A great number of companies use Ant for internal projects as well…

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When CMMI is right

Dovico has a nice paper and brief introduction to CMMI with a pretty straightforward conclusion: Is the CMMI right for you?...

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Enforcing coding guidelines and multi project build management (+Checkclipse)

[updated 26.8.] Some essential tools for enhancing your multi project development environment: Maven Checkstyle Jalopy and Jalopy plugin for Maven (thx to Marcus)...

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Roundup on Software Development Quality with ASQ, Code Metrics and multi project build management

A set of interesting posts from the last weeks about the hot topics automated software quality enforcing coding guidelines and multi project build management code metrics profiling and tuning All of course in focus of the currently momentum gaining Eclipse…

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Regular Expression Tester for Eclipse

RegEx Tester is cool – or shall I say: sexy Features: Test and search for regular expression – with SEXY Live-View that evaluates while you type – good for play-around/experimenting Support for pattern flags (e.g. Pattern.DOTALL) LiveEval evaluates your regular…