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Subversion Backup-Restore

2010-06-22T08:40:00.011+02:00

So we are are now mostly migrated from CVS to Subversion. And we are (mostly) happy.We have around 150,000 revisions split on two repositories (125,000 and 25,000 respectively). Performance is fair - much better than CVS in any event. We run it on Windows 2k3 using some virtual server claiming 2 x 2.4GHz Xenons and 3GB of RAM.The "mostly-happy" stems from the trouble people experience now they

Rational Deployment

2010-02-19T08:16:00.010+01:00

We use a number of IBM Rational products (RAD, RSA, RSM, RDZ, and RDI at last count).These are supposed to be installed using IBM's Installation Manager (IM). Unfortunately, IM and I have issues.One Of Us Had To Go...When I started at the bank, I had to make a new RAD7 (version 7.0.0.3 IIRC) deployment to our 75 developers.This was early times for the IM so it did not do too well. In fact, its

Busy times...

2009-12-23T14:01:00.002+01:00

Yikes, Christmas is over us. And I never got around to posting anything since late summer.Apologies! It is not that this blog is dead (it just smells a bit peculiar), but I have been hung up on a number of high priority issues.I (seriously) hope the issues will be resolved early in the new year, so I can blog a little again.In the pipeline (yes, let's make some vapor-blogging):Enterprise

Migrating from CVS to SVN

2009-08-26T14:10:00.012+02:00

We have started a migration of our projects from CVS to SVN.Choice of VCS and RAD pluginWe looked at other VCS tools and would have liked a distributed VCS. But that would have required training of our developers to a different configuration management model, so we went for Subversion instead.For the same reason, we chose to use the Subversive plugin in RAD instead of the tigris Subclipse plugin.

Toolsmith Kaizen

2009-07-03T14:43:00.003+02:00

Currently not being able to afford the time to prepare a technical-with-source blog entry, I thought I would write a little about a softer issue that I have been working on lately.I am unable to get to the bottom of the problems on my plate. I am always playing catch up. That is how it has always been - here at Jyske Bank, at Systematic, and before that, at Red Hat and Cygnus Solutions. I guess

Sources moving to Buildmeister@Kenai

2009-06-10T13:17:00.002+02:00

Given the trouble of recreating sources here in the blog, I have decided to move them into a proper VCS system at Kenai.I will go through the existing blog entries, move the source and insert links to the VCS instead.Go to the Buildmeister Kenai project to access the sources.

Configuration of Hudson

2009-06-09T15:23:00.003+02:00

We use Hudson to continuously build our projects.We have one Master and six Slaves.There are 385 projects being built. 128 of these are simple projects where only some XML documents are validated. The other 257 projects are mostly JEE applications, but there are also a few regular Java projects.Build times span from 12 seconds to 27 minutes.We have the Hudson configuration expressed by a simply

EjbDeploy on Windows

2009-05-19T14:05:00.004+02:00

I do not think WebSphere was ever intended to run on Windows.It is so easy to create applications with deep package hierarchies that result in deployed files that cannot be accessed on Windows via DOS path semantics. Allegedly UNC paths do not have the 254-ish character limit, so in theory there is a way to make it work, but in practice, it is not used.We need to be able to catch this unfortunate

Syntax testing

2009-04-29T10:56:00.016+02:00

I have to post some python, ruby and java code in this blog. This is how the syntax highlighting is set up (documenting it for myself).After changing the template:Copy contents of http://syntaxhighlighter.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/Styles/SyntaxHighlighter.css and paste it into the template before ]]>Add before :