Devops for Growth

Phing is a PHP project build tool based on Apache Ant. A build system helps you to perform a group of actions using a single command. If you’re wondering why PHP needs a build tool, consider a work flow where you write code and unit tests on your local machine, and if the tests pass you upload the code to staging/production server and make any changes to the production database. Without a build file, you’ll need to go through each step manually. If you are doing continuous integration, you’ll be doing the same steps over and over again. It’s too easy to accidentally omit something in the process and end up with serious problem in production. Phing helps overcome such issues by automating tasks like running unit tests, applying database changes, deploying application code, etc. In this article I’ll show you some of the basics of working with Phing.

Following Alexander Cogneau’s introduction to dependency management with Composer, you now know that Composer is a resolver for managing external project dependencies and versioning constraints. But is that all it does? In this article I’ll show you how Composer can also be used as a basic build automation tool.

With the arrival of the Kepler release it’s time for a fresh look at the how the latest Eclipse tooling makes contributing to Eclipse easier and more fun than ever. Read on for a step-by-step guide how to setup a workspace for contributing changes to Eclipse using Git, Gerrit and Hudson.

Il est très fédérateur puisqu’il rassemble des mondes très différents tels que celui du Web et de NodeJS, mais aussi celui du build, de l’intégration continue, des tests unitaires ou encore de la qualité de code.

Le projet Grunt représente, à lui seul, de nombreuses particularités des projets JavaScript. Simplicité, jeunesse, adoption exponentielle, efficacité... Le détailler permet d’avoir un bon aperçu d’un écosystème en plein essor.

Suppose you have a web application that is installed on many hosts. Each installation may have a custom configuration, and the application is still in active development. You need an easy way to deploy new features and bug fixes to all of hosts.

In his previous article Using Phing, the PHP Build Tool, Shameer gave you a basic understanding of Phing. You learned how to read and write a build file and what its basic components are: project, targets, tasks, andproperties.

In this article I show you how to use this knowledge to write a boilerplate build file, one that can be customized and reused in your real-world applications. We’ll use Phing’s Subversion tasks to manage the repository and the FileSync extension to syncronize your local installation with a remote server.

Apache Maven is a build automation tool with the purpose of building, reporting, and creating documentation of projects. It builds projects using a Project Object Model (POM) and a set of plugins shared by all projects using Maven, thus providing a uniform build system. Once you familiarize yourself with how one Maven project builds, you automatically know how all Maven projects build. This saves you an immense amount of time from trying to navigate the build process of many different projects.

Through this article you will gain familiarity with Maven for PHP, and how to install and use the PHP-Maven plugin from the command line and in Eclipse.

PHP-Maven uses the power of Maven for building, reporting, and creating documentation of your PHP projects. It adapts the Maven build life cycle to the PHP world while fully supporting PHP 5. PHP-Maven uses PHPUnit for unit testing and phpDocumentor for creating the project documentation.

Voici la description des possibilités offertes par le connecteur Hudson/Jenkins pour Mylyn :
http://www.eclipse.org/mylyn/new/#hudson