One of the last days in my current project I was about to freeze the codebase and finish things up. Luckily, I had a couple of hours left to play around with something that I have been thinking about throughout the project but never had time to implement. My mission was to deploy the application [...]
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Speed is the key. I often need a web server in order to run a web application I developed to try things out. Setting up this infrastructure can often be quite tedious but if the only thing you need is a servlet container I often use the approach described in this article. We start out [...]
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It’s best practice to tag each of your stable releases in your version control system for future reference. However, it is very rare that this sort of work is free from failure. Like many tedious, error-prone tasks, it is one of those things that could do with a bit of automation.
Luckily, the [...]
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