Posts made in June, 2009

  

Evolving my Vision and Mission

Posted by Basil Vandegriend on June 15th, 2009. Categories: Professional Tags: , ,

If you are a regular reader you may have noticed that I use guiding statements like a vision or mission to motivate and inspire myself and clarify my future direction. The following articles contain some of my past efforts:

My Vision for IT
Our Mission as Software Developers
Becoming a Champion of Continuous Improvement

I recently drafted new vision [...]

Using Ivy to Manage Build Dependencies

Posted by Basil Vandegriend on June 1st, 2009. Categories: Tools Tags: , , , ,

Ivy is a tool for managing build dependencies within the Ant build tool. In this article I share my experiences using Ivy and provide recommendations on what to do and not do. This article is not a tutorial on using Ivy: for that see the Ivy documentation.
Before getting into the specifics of Ivy, the first [...]