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TechBookReport on 'Continuous Integration'
1 year, 1 month ago
Like unit testing and automated builds, continuous integration is one of those development best practices that everyone can agree on, from the most extreme programmers to the most dogmatic of RUPistas. System integration - the moment when all of the different components of an application come together to produce a harmonious and pleasing whole - can be such a painful and difficult procedure that it's tempting to put it off until later. It's a lot of hassle, it takes so much time, there's always something missing and so… There you are on the eve of release, only to find that rather than software harmony, you've got massive discord and disaster.
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Turn OpenOffice.org into a Web-editing tool with ODF@WWW
Imagine being able to open any Web page on your server in OpenOffice.org, edit it, and save the changes back to the server by pressing the Save button. It may sound too good to be true, but that's exactly what the ODF@WWW project is set to achieve.
Making music with M-Audio on Linux
M-Audio has supplied hardware and software to computer-based musicians for 20 years. Its new "make-music-now" line of products, aimed at musicians just getting into computers or PC users with an interest in music, includes a microphone, speakers, drum machine, and DJ mixer deck. Unfortunately, its bundled software, called Session, is for Windows only. Our challenge was to try out this hardware -- specifically the KeyStudio MIDI keyboard and Fast Track audio interface -- with Linux applications. We were half successful.
Integrating Ubuntu with a Windows-based network is harder than it should be
I've been using and advocating free software for around six years. When studying and then working as a freelance writer, migrating an office seemed so simple -- draw up a list of comparable programs and, over a reasonable period, move your staff across. But over the past few weeks I've been trying to use Ubuntu Gutsy on my desktop PC in a Windows-based office, and whilst most things work just fine, it's far from the seamless integration I was hoping for.
