{"id":516,"date":"2006-12-07T11:46:30","date_gmt":"2006-12-07T18:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/wp\/?p=516"},"modified":"2006-12-07T11:46:30","modified_gmt":"2006-12-07T18:46:30","slug":"urbancodes-anthill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/2006\/12\/07\/urbancodes-anthill\/","title":{"rendered":"Urbancode&#039;s AntHill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I talked with <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.urbancode.com\/roller\/page\/mbz\/\">Maciej Zawadzki<\/a>, President of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbancode.com\/\">Urbancode<\/a> about their build system, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anthillpro.com\/\">AntHillPro<\/a>. I contacted them for research on my continuous build work. And a big thanks goes out to how quickly Maciej responded and setup a meeting.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out, of course, that AntHill does quite a bit more than continuous builds; you&#8217;d expect that of course from a commercial product when things like CruiseControl and many other continuous build tools are available for free.<\/p>\n<p>Having worked in a large company that build it&#8217;s own, similar, multi-tenent build tool for versioning builds, monitoring builds, and providing a repository for builds I can see how something like AntHill would be useful. There&#8217;s, of course, enterprisey features like security (even password masking in logs), reports, and plenty of meta-data generated for auditing.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;ll be nice to compare to <a href=\"http:\/\/www-306.ibm.com\/software\/awdtools\/buildforge\/enterprise\/index.html\">BuildForge<\/a> once I finish lining up a call with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www-306.ibm.com\/software\/rational\/\">Rational<\/a> folks.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the raw notes:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/20061206-AntHill.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/20061206-AntHill-tm.jpg\" height=\"392\" width=\"498\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"20061206-Anthill\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Disclaimer:<\/b> IBM is a client.<\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p>Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/anthill\" rel=\"tag\">anthill<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/briefings\" rel=\"tag\">briefings<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/builds\" rel=\"tag\">builds<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/continuousintegration\" rel=\"tag\">continuousintegration<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/urbancode\" rel=\"tag\">urbancode<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I talked with Maciej Zawadzki, President of Urbancode about their build system, AntHillPro. I contacted them for research on my continuous build work. And a big thanks goes out to how quickly Maciej responded and setup a meeting. It turns out, of course, that AntHill does quite a bit more than continuous builds; you&#8217;d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-companies","category-programming"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}