Switching from Pebble to WordPress
After a few days of messing around, at the behest of a certain someone, I have switched over Sonatype’s blogging system from Pebble to WordPress. I have to say it’s pretty nice. Being able to post directly in Markdown, select from the huge number of themes, and pick over the tons of plugin code lying around makes it pretty easy to use. The LDAP integration also took all of 10 minutes. Sonatype is up and running with WordPress!
Creating the Sonatype product roadmap
I joined Sonatype on October 1st. I have found an enormous pool of talent, technology assets and – importantly – customer interest. Exciting stuff – nothing of what Sonatype delivers is a luxury item, it should play out well regardless of the economic climate in the months and years to come.
What is needed now is a public product roadmap and the ability of expressing and interpreting feedback. We’ll focus on that in the coming week.
Keep the Book Feedback Coming… We're Listening
When I started a page on Get Satisfaction for Maven: The Definitive Guide. It was an experiement, after a few months, I’m pretty sure the experiment has succeeded and I’m looking forward to more community feedback.
Initially, Jason has asked me why I didn’t just create a new JIRA project for the book. I told him I was looking for something that a casual reader could start using right away… I wanted something a bit more “social”, something with threaded conversations and something that facilitated a more casual interaction. If you find a typo, all you need to do is type in a free form paragraph and a description. You don’t have to know the meaning of twenty different drop-down menus or be bothered with version numbers. In other words, I really didn’t want “an issue tracker” – I wanted something that would help the community develop without the conceptual overhead of an issue tracker. Writing is not software development. (more…)
Professional Maven documentation has arrived
It’s been a long time coming, but “Maven: The Definitive Guide” has finally hit the shelves. This was a collaborative effort with many authors and editors involved. I’ll admit that in reviewing the book, I learned a thing or two, even though I’ve been a maven committer for 3 years and on the PMC for 1.5.
The book is comprised of two parts, the first is a learn by example step by step with sample projects, and the second is more in depth discussion of advanced topics like profiles, repository managers, eclipse ide integration, lifecycle, etc.
Since each chapter was written by experts on the topic and reviewed by the whole team, you won’t find a better resource on Maven anytime soon, so grab your copy here
Nexus Maven Repository, now on the iPhone
Now you can use the Nexus UI on the Iphone. Perfect for administering the system at the beach, or if you just have to know the latest version of a dependency on the train.
