ANN: Build management

The October edition of Crossroads News is now available
online at http://news.cmcrossroads.com/oct03.html

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Build Management
In This Issue
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* Building Zone: Beyond Continuous Integration,
A Holistic Approach to Build Management (Part 1 of 2)
Maciej Zawadzki

* Behaviorally Speaking: Build Management,
A critical milestone in the release management process
Bob Aiello

* Agile SCM: Build Management for an Agile Team
Brad Appleton, Steve Berczuk and Steve Konieczka

* Challenges and Strategies for Building and Deploying J2EE
Applications
Sean Blanton and Michael Sayko

* Managing build variants with a better bootstrap
Bernard D. Zelitch

* Human Resources Corner:
Staying Onshore when the jobs are headed Offshore
Bob Aiello

* Career Search:
The Job Market And Today's Growing Economy
Don M. Reid

* Book of the Month -
Professional Struts Applications: Building Web Sites with Struts,
Object Relational Bridge, Lucene, and Velocity
by J John/Linwood Carnell


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- Editors Note - Patrick Egan
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This month in Crossroads News we begin the shift to a new format
primarily featuring articles by our regular columnists and
collaborators with a special section for contributed articles. This
format will allow the Crossroads News writers to focus on their areas
of expertise, while still providing an avenue for contributed articles
and comments on a wide variety of configuration management and related
development subjects. In line with this new format we are introducing
the Building Zone, a regular column on software build management led
by Maciej Zawadzki, with occasional collaboration from other experts
in build management like those featured in this this months edition.

At CMCrossroads.com we have completed the implementation of the new
discussion forums software smoothing out most of the wrinkles. If you
are already registered, be sure to update your online profile at
http://www.cmcrossroads.com/ubbthreads/login.php and reset your
subscription options and preferences. With the new forum application,
have also implemented a new polling feature that will allow registered
members to add polls to their postings. You can cast your vote on the
subject of nightly builds in the latest poll or join in the discussion
on build management in the discussion forums
http://www.cmcrossroads.com/boards/

This month we also welcome Elsinore Technologies who join us as our
newest sponsoring company. Elsinore has chosen CM Crossroads to host
the official discussion forums for the users of their defect and issue
tracking solution Visual Intercept.

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