I recently ran across a fascinating letter sent by the CEO of a small Ukranian consulting company to his employees.
There’s a good variety of options available for transforming xml. In addition to the standards (XSLT and XQuery), Groovy has excellent XML manipulation support with MarkupBuilders and XMLSlurpers. I wanted to know how XSLT and Groovy compare in terms of performance, but couldn’t find anything online. So, I decided to measure it myself.
We use and really like Jenkins for our Continuous Integration. It’s been around forever and has lots of capabilities as a result. Yet in spite of its maturity, Jenkins lacks a really great build monitor. So we decided to make one.