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Session

Project Automation On The Mac
Mike Clark, President, Clarkware Consulting

Track: Programming & Scripting
Date: Wednesday, October 27
Time: 1:45pm - 2:30pm
Location: Winchester

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They say the cobbler's child is the last to have shoes. It's the same for software developers -- we write applications for others, but rarely take the time to automate our own processes. This is crazy: if we let our computers do more of the repetitive, tedious, and boring work for us, then not only do we free up our time to do more worthwhile things, we also guarantee more repeatable results.

The fact that Mac OS X comes stock with a rich set of automation tools makes the Mac an excellent platform for project automation. This talk gives you soup-to-nuts recipes for automating your software project: turning step-by-step manual procedures into push-button scripts using Unix scripting languages, scheduling recurring chores with periodic or cron, generating software releases consistently with version control, packaging applications for easy installation with PackageMaker, deploying applications over the web with Java Web Start, and monitoring running programs with powerful tools such as curl, grep, email, and RSS.


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