Entries tagged: ant

Mar 26

Speeding web development with Apache Ant

Modern web development includes many iterations. Bigger project have more iterations and as project is nearing completion, these iterations endure for shorter time and are performed more often. With every new iteration I go thought similar process - for example: backup test database and copy it to local server, update database structure, update program code, fix bugs, preform tests, validate XHTML, deploy all changes to test server for client to see. *Apache Ant can help, automating repetitive tasks and reducing errors caused by human factor.*

Jul 13

OpenOffice.org Beta Format Conversion

This Ant script converts OpenOffice.org documents saved with SRC680 build prior to m64 so they can be loaded into SRC680m64 and future builds.