Why you might ask? A perfectly valid and sane question, let me explain. Right now I’m setting up continuous integration for both an Azure project and an Android project. I’ve covered my struggle with the Azure project in an earlier post. But now it was time to get the Amazon EC2 Windows Server 2008 with [...]

There are several reasons for setting up Continuous Integration for any project. The very same reasons (and some more) are true for an Azure project. In this post I’ll take you through the journey that I and a colleague travelled in our quest for a fully automated build-test-deployment solution for our Azure project. Before I [...]

I just finished the book, Continuous Delivery by Jez Humble and David Farley. It’s a great book, but it is a bit wordy (512 pages), so here is the gist of it. Continuous delivery builds on a simple foundation, continuous integration, automation, and version control. But in order to get it to work you must [...]

One of the major challenges we’ve been facing in the Spring LDAP project is to make certain that the library works together with different LDAP servers. Different servers behave differently in certain situations; some functionality might only be supported on select servers, etc. In the ideal situation we would run our automated test suite against [...]