Release management secrets with Jenkins and Ant - webinar Tues 3/11/14 1pm EST

Are you spending too much time moving code changes to your development/staging/production environments all the time?
Do you have issues with certain files needing specific settings and having to be careful not to overwrite them when FTPing your code?
Would you like to automate running unit and/or integration tests?
Do you want to let your client know when updates are available for testing?

Learn the ins and outs of release management from start to finish as Wil and Mary Jo from CF Webtools tag team this webinar. Wil will present an overview of release management and how we use SVN and Jenkins to run builds and then Mary Jo will talk about ANT and creating builds that will automate the entire process including updating application settings, FTPing files, clearing caches, and emailing the team when the process completes. We'll finish up with a Q&A where you get two experts for the price of one to cover whatever questions you might have on Jenkins, Ant, etc.

Presenter Bios
Mary Jo Sminkey has been doing web application development for over 15 years and ColdFusion since the Allaire days. She is particularly skilled in the area of ecommerce, through her experience writing and supporting CFWebstore, one of the first stand-alone ecommerce platforms for ColdFusion. She now works for CFWebtools, LLC in Omaha, NE as a senior web developer, overseeing a large million dollar client. In her free time, Mary Jo is well known as a talented dog trainer, judge, and competitor in a wide range of canine sports, such as agility, flyball, obedience, rally, herding, and musical freestyle. Her other varied hobbies include playing handbells and a variety of other instruments, folding origami models, and baking fancy and delicious cakes and cookies.

Will Genovese has been doing ColdFusion development and ColdFusion Server administration since 1998. Experiences ranging from troubleshooting and debugging to general application maintenance to architecting web applications and databases. Wil has been involved in managing and maintaining code publishing systems and SVN at CF Webtools. More recently Will has been doing server security investigations and web application security testing. Some of the technologies he is proficient in include ColdFusion server 7, 8, 9 & 10, CFML, CFC, PostgreSQL server, MS SQL, MySQL, Linux and Windows servers, Apache, IIS, XHTML/HTML, CSS, XML, and server administration and installation.