A while ago, I was working at a company in South Florida. And I happened to be reading the manual for their build tool, which was called ‘make’, and it mentioned a special syntax available for cases where more than one output file could be built by a single application of a rule.
The example most [...]
The ‘which’ utility is one of those really useful commands that never seems to cross the bridge from Unix to Windows. The CMD.EXE special %$PATH:f syntax seems to promise some relief, but of course it’s never that simple – I at least want to type “which foo” rather than “which foo.exe”.
So here’s which.cmd – a [...]
Most of the readers of this blog are CM specialists. Whether you’re a corporate CM librarian, or a build manager, you are focused on what the industry now calls “Application Lifecycle Management.” That’s an attempt to give a name to the collection of roles and functions we perform. It isn’t so much that the people [...]
Recently I had the opportunity to develop a unit testing framework for MySQL scripts in mostly-pure SQL. While I can’t share the code, I can certainly describe what we did, and why we did it. Hopefully it will be useful to you.
Austin Hastings (that’s me) will be speaking at two conferences coming up in October. Both presentations will be focusing on LDM.
First, there’s the Telelogic User Group Conference 2008, in Austin, Texas. That’s obviously focused on Telelogic, and on CM Synergy and Telelogic Change, or whatever it’s called this week. Since I spent a fair amount [...]
