Ant has been widely celebrated as the future of build processing. In fact, it represents a great improvement over previous make tools: it is extendible, multiplatform, and standard-based. Some Ant ...

Build a Plane is an experience on the Roblox platform where you use different blocks to build a plane that you can fly to earn cash that you can use for buying new blocks and upgrades. That said, ...

Systems administrators have been building Apache servers from source for decades. For most of them, the routine is the same — download a compressed tar file, extract its contents and run through the ...

Build scripts are finally being treated as first-class development citizens, thanks to tools like psake, FAKE, and Rake + Albacore. Ian Davis explores the Ruby-based, open source Albacore DSL. Borne ...

In the quest for writing better code in PowerShell, we have a great tool that can help you to write better code by pointing out areas that can be improved to better match a 'best practices' approach.

Windows shops transitioning to devops may not yet know the power of build pipelines when it comes to standing up and maintaing infrastructure. A concept familiar to software developers, the ...

Dear Final Debug: I am completely sick about having to upgrade over and over. Every time I get comfortable with a new version of some program, a new one comes out. This makes me crazy. Anyway, I’ve ...