Yesterday I did a presentation about build automation with Ant, for the Dutch ColdFusion User Group. The presentation included two live demos. I am glad to say everything worked as expected during my talk. I hope to have conveyed the message that ColdFusion developers can indeed benefit from build automation, by increasing efficiency during development, reducing deployment stress and improving software quality.
If you missed the presentation, or want to take another look, you can download my slides here. If you want to try out Ant and/or CruiseControl, I have made the demo-app from my presentation available for download. Also I have made available an Amazon EC2 AMI, with a CruiseControl server plus the demo-app installed, for you to play around with. For details on how to obtain the demo-app + AMI, and instructions on how to get started, you can go to the project’s Wiki page. Enjoy! And please let me know what you think!
