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I had a lingering item on one of my lists to look into why our Windows build box runs out of memory after 3-4 days of running cruisecontrol. Turns out it’s a quick uncomment in cruisecontrol.bat: REM Uncomment the following line if you have OutOfMemoryError errors REM set CC_OPTS=-Xms128m -Xmx256m Not sure why it isn’t [...] I sat my two tech leads down last week and went over a draft of our new code review process. They were OK with the general approach and idea, but they did have two things to add: You’re going to present this to the team. We probably won’t need to do these after a little [...] In a podcast on Drunk and Retired, they talked a bit about how their seems to be a bit of hand waving about how agile methodologies really scale: Well, like you know, in Scrum, just have a Scrum of Scrums, that’ll work out. –Cote I actually giggled on my morning walk because it was the [...] In the tradition of code smells here’s some Enterprise Tool Smells: Install time is measured in days. Installation involves cryptic steps such as after step 17c, delete these files, then restart the installation script. The install software doesn’t fit on a single DVD, necessitating baby-sitting it so you can dump the next CD/DVD when it’s [...] It’s nice to know a big name consultant like Rick Hightower is struggling mightily with Websphere Portal and RAD 6 as well: The loading process is a 15 page document of push this button, push that button, install this, stand on your head, fill out this dialog, sacrifice a goat, scroll this list, repeat, repeat, [...] |
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