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Despite its widespread use, Ant is ultimately inadequate as a build system. In some ways, it is well-suited for building simple Java projects: It is integrated with the JVM and extensible in Java, and it has an established library of code for a variety of tasks. Unfortunately, there are core responsibilities of a build system — keeping track of dependencies among files and rebuilding only as necessary — that Ant simply does not perform, delegating instead to every individual task to do what should be core functionality.

We have developed a custom Drupal module for a client that I'm really excited about. We are in the process of contributing it to the Drupal community and I wanted to get the word out.

The module is called Cred, and it allows users to create nodes that are then graded by other users. These grades are compiled into a user's Cred Point Average (or CPA), which is displayed on their profile page. We used Jyte as our inspiration for this module. Our goal was to create a fun way for users to create content, spur discussion, and generate reputation all at the same time.

Just as I expected, with the rise in gas prices public transit ridership is on the rise!

Someone at Trillium Solutions (probably Aaron) posted here, a good synopsis of the situation.

I also appreciate their discussion of how technology (Google Transit) is impacting accessibility to schedule data and how that accessibility positively impacts ridership.

The Goal: Instead of using the Windows command line, use a Putty terminal that connects passwordlessly to an sshd server running on localhost.

Anybody who has used ssh on Linux for any period of time has probably done something like this to allow passwordless logins between systems. The concept is pretty much the same, but the tools are different. By the way, these instructions are for XP, and I have no idea whether they would work with Vista.

Hey folks, check out the Case Study that Danube authored. I think they did a pretty good job capturing the positive impact that Scrum had on our project.

Link to the PDF: http://www.danube.com/docs/case_studies/SingleMind_case_study.pdf

Link to this and other testimonials: http://www.danube.com/customers

Welcome to SingleMind Consulting's new blog site. We turned this up as the central location for discussion of all corporate news, press releases and general musings by our team.