Access Control, at first glance seems to be a rather straight forward topic or task to handle.  Well, I can assure you it is not.  Especially when you’re working in an Engineering organization that seems to be schizophrenic at times in terms of its own unique identity.   I’m talking about how there should be [...]

Ever run into the problem where you must set multiple builders running different inside of CruiseControl’s scheduler block?  I recently had to do that for one of the projects I’m integrating, but kept on running into inconsistency in CruiseControl 2.8.2. My first attempt was this: <schedule interval="900"> <ant time="1200" anthome="${ANTHOME}" antworkingdir="${my_build.dir}" buildfile="${my_build.file}" target="build.all.then.test" uselogger="true" usedebug="false"/> [...]

I’ve seen a lot of organizations running into this problem such that their build environment gets to a point where it is so complicated that the best way to preserve it is through archiving the image.  I’m talking about archiving the entire build machine using image tools such as Norton Ghost, VMWare, or Microsoft VirtualPC.  [...]