Up until recently, Visual Studio had no automated way to perform builds. You could do builds within the IDE, but with virtually no options. And automating the build process required another ...

Traditional Java applications capture runtime variables in property files, then package them into individual JARs for various software environments. But for users of Maven, it could make better sense ...

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When product managers, owners, or organizations are trying to build a new solution from the ground up, they are frequently faced with the business equivalent of writer’s block. It's hard to know where ...

When building software it's often useful to give each iteration of your build process a unique number. Many IDEs and RAD tools do this for you automatically. If yours doesn't and you're using a make ...

Some things in life are so complicated that it’s easier to say, “Screw it — I’m not going to do this at all.” That’s what building a new home is like for most people. The process is so fraught with ...