Hudson

"The IBM developerWorks Web site is currently under maintenance." and has been the whole night I was trying to access the tutorial. But there are other tutorials out there, so I was still able to figure it out. I fully intend to go through the tutorial once it becomes available.

I suppose it shouldn't be too much of a surprise, but I've found a lot of indication that information radiators are an important part of Continuous Integration environments. It kinda validates the potential of my team's project. I imagine the ambient devices group felt the same way.

I am also pleased to know that my often-ridiculed habit of checking in multiple times per day is actually a good thing. I haven't been quite as on it recently as I should be (partly because I've been giving in a bit to the faintly critical comments of co-workers and classmates from previous semesters) but now I know how to tell them where to shove it. I code in small tasks - now I just have to code MORE tasks!

Anyway, Hudson is a very handy system that seems to run very well in the short time I've had to work with it. I don't want to get caught with my pants down right before it explodes, but as of now I don't see why Professor Johnson would have to do anything more than create a new project at http://informative-workspace.googlecode.com/svn/trunk, and schedule a daily build. Well, that and selecting Ant and specifying build.xml, but yeah - nothing special in other words.