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  Secure Copy using Ant's SCP Task

  Published: 7/26/07 6:02 PM
  by: Rob
  In all my time using Ant, I've never needed to move or copy files between servers. Instead, I've had to distribute files to customers. In hindsight, that seems a little unusual to me but, until the other day, I'd never used any of Ant's remote copying tasks. When I had to, I was surprised how muc...
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  MAMP + Svn Woes

  Published: 1/5/08 12:37 PM
  by: Rob
  Reckon I just might've spoke too soon when I posted last night. Maybe. I thought I'd solved all of my issues with MAMP and had successfully bent it to my will when I got pear running. Alas, 'twould appear not. Today I tried to execute an Ant script and one of my Subversion tasks was failing. An...
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  Variable Replacement with Ant

  Published: 1/14/08 7:31 PM
  by: Rob
  In the years I've been using Ant, there aren't many things I haven't been able to make it do for me to automate the end-to-end build and/or deployment process. There is at least one thing that's eluded me, though. Almost every application I write includes a config file. The application config fil...
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  Ant for Web Applications

  Published: 1/20/08 4:56 PM
  by: Rob
  On the whole, I suppose, Ant is probably best known as a build automation tool for "traditional" software projects (particularly Java), but its usefulness for building and deploying web applications should not be dismissed. I've been using Ant since maybe 2003 or 2004 to do just that. Ad...
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