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Matthew McCullough

Open Source Architect, Ambient Ideas

Matthew McCullough is an energetic 15 year veteran of enterprise software development, open source education, and co-founder of Ambient Ideas, LLC, a Denver consultancy. Matthew currently is a trainer for GitHub.com, author of the Git Master Class series for O'Reilly, speaker at over 30 national and international conferences, author of three of the top 10 DZone RefCards, and President of the Denver Open Source Users Group. His current topics of research center around project automation: build tools (Maven, Leiningen, Gradle), distributed version control (Git), Continuous Integration (Hudson) and Quality Metrics (Sonar). Matthew resides in Denver, Colorado with his beautiful wife and two young daughters, who are active in nearly every outdoor activity Colorado has to offer.

Blog

Git and GitHub Support in JetBrains YouTrack

Posted Tuesday, November 22, 2011

I recently had the chance to get a demo of JetBrains products’ Git integration and to meet some of the JetBrains development team in person at Øredev in Malmö, Sweden. I love seeing things integrate better with the GitHub API. It really is fantastmore »

Git at the NHJUG

Posted Saturday, July 23, 2011

NHJUG I had the wonderful opportunity of being sponsored by No Fluff, Just Stuff Symposiums to speak at the New Hampshire JUG in Portsmouth on Tuesday. It was a lively crowd of 20 or so persons hosted by the excellent Ted Pennings, Matt Merrill, NHJUG, more »

OSCON gets Git

Posted Wednesday, June 1, 2011

I’m honored to have been accepted to co-present a Git workshop with Tim Berglund at OSCON 2011. It’ll be my first time at OSCON, and being the open source advocate that I am, I’m nothing short of thrilled to sit and attend a few sessiomore »

Git hits the Road: Sweden, Poland, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland

Posted Sunday, May 8, 2011

In the whirlwind last five weeks, I’ve taken Git on the road to five countries for Git and GitHub workshops and presentations. It has been a blast to bring a tool that I’m so excited about to folks that at first are skeptical about changing more »

Game Theory & Software Development

Posted Monday, April 18, 2011

This Summer I’ll be debuting a new talk at NFJS (and offering it a bit later at other conferences) that weaves together the combination of Game Theory and Software Development. Some of you have been asking for a preview of the resources I used as more »

Viewing Branch Tracking Info in Git

Posted Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Many students and colleagues have asked me how to view the branch tracking information in Git. There are a minimum of three answers, each giving more verbose information. I’ve demonstrated each in the following gist at GitHumore »

Git at Canoo in Basel, Switzerland

Posted Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Ben Franklin Octocat and I are pleased to announce that I’ll be giving one and possibly even two days of Git training at the Canoo offices in Basel, Switzerland in May.  There is some room for public registrants, so take a quick look at the page more »

Git & GitHub everywhere: JFokus and around Stockholm, Sweden

Posted Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Mattias Karlsson, the ever-professional helmsman for the JFokus conference, had an at-length discussion with me about Git and his conference at the grand Devoxx show in Antwerp, Belgium this past November. We arrived at a plan to bring Git, the innovatimore »

O’Reilly Git Master Class Videos Launched

Posted Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Five Hours of Complete Git Training via Video I have the privilege of announcing that the videos that Tim Berglund and I recorded in a Denver film studio just a brief while ago are now for sale at the O’Reilly online store. These 5 hours of downlomore »

Git Filter-Branch Examples

Posted Friday, December 31, 2010

Have you ever looked at the powerful git filter-branch command? It offers, amongst many features, the ability to maintain history while re-writing the tree to a subset of its past self. A common use case is to prune out a large and unnecessary folder omore »
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Presentations

iPad/iPhone Seminar - Part I

You're adept at Java. You've got a solid grasp of that ecosystem. But you keep hearing about iPhone this, iPad that.more »

Cryptography on the JVM: Boot Camp

Does your application transmit customer information? Are there fields of sensitive customer data stored in your DB? Can your application be used on insecure networks?more »

Hadoop Workshop

Moore's law has finally hit the wall and CPU speeds have actually decreased in the last few years. The industry is reacting with hardware with an ever-growing number of cores and software that can leverage "grids" of distributed, often commodity, computinmore »

iPad/iPhone Seminar - Part II

Workshop part II will focus on debugging. First, we will revisit deployment to iPad / iPhone devices, cover common application debugging techniques, writing unit tests, and debugging tools. We will also include time for you to ask questions and work thrmore »

Git Source Code Control Workshop

You've heard about Git, Mercurial, Bazaar and the Distributed Version Control System revolution. In this deeply hands on session, we'll load Git on participants laptops, build repositories and share out pieces of work. We'll explore the optimized agile more »

iPad/iPhone Seminar - Part III

Workshop part III will focus on design. The iPad isn't simply a large iPhone. The technology is pretty much the same, but a quick look at some of the new apps and you will see how cool this new device and software platform is.more »

iBeans: The Simplest Service Integrations You've Ever Implemented

No app is an island nowadays and your bleeding edge Java & JavaScript apps demand that you integrate with Facebook, Amazon, Gmail, Google Search, Twitter or S3 just to name a few. Make your next integration project a breeze by leveraging the successfumore »

Migrating to Maven 3.0

Explore what's new on the cutting edge release of Maven, version 3.0. We'll explore the performance improvements, features that make debugging Maven issues easier, and changes to POMs that may require modifications to your build, but will result in more more »

iPad/iPhone Seminar - Part I

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Matthew McCullough By Matthew McCullough

You're adept at Java. You've got a solid grasp of that ecosystem. But you keep hearing about iPhone this, iPad that. It worries you just a bit that you haven't yet spent the time to explore this new frontier. Cure that with a nearly Java-free intense four hour boot camp on the iPad. During this session, you'll use your UberConf-supplied device to get started coding on the XCode platform, learning the Objective-C language, testing, and deploying your apps.



No previous iPad ecosystem knowledge is assumed. Matthew McCullough and Ben Ellingson will take you from the ground up in this unique coding environment. With their hands on teaching style and one-on-one assistance, you'll explore what it takes to build and deploy an application for the iPhone and iPad devices. We'll start with a simple application that you'll code from line 1 to line 200, all the while testing it in the iPad simulator. Along the way, you'll also discover the Developer signup process and digital certificate setup required to push beta applications to the device. Finally, we will integrate an iPad app with data from a JSON web service.


Cryptography on the JVM: Boot Camp

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Matthew McCullough By Matthew McCullough

Does your application transmit customer information? Are there fields of sensitive customer data stored in your DB? Can your application be used on insecure networks? If so, you need a working knowledge of encryption and how to leverage Open Source APIs and libraries to make securing your data as easy as possible. Cryptography is quickly becoming a developer's new frontier of responsibility in many data-centric applications.



In today's data-sensitive and news-sensationalizing world, don't become the next headline by an inadvertent release of private customer or company data. Secure your persisted, transmitted and in-memory data and learn the terminology you'll need to navigate the ecosystem of symmetric and public/private key cryptography.


Hadoop Workshop

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Matthew McCullough By Matthew McCullough

Moore's law has finally hit the wall and CPU speeds have actually decreased in the last few years. The industry is reacting with hardware with an ever-growing number of cores and software that can leverage "grids" of distributed, often commodity, computing resources. But how is a traditional Java developer supposed to easily take advantage of this revolution? The answer is the Apache Hadoop family of projects. Hadoop is a suite of Open Source APIs at the forefront of this grid computing revolution and is considered the absolute gold standard for the divide-and-conquer model of distributed problem crunching. The well-travelled Apache Hadoop framework is curently being leveraged in production by prominent names such as Yahoo, IBM, Amazon, Adobe, AOL, Facebook and Hulu just to name a few.



In this session, you'll start by learning the vocabulary unique to the distributed computing space. Next, we'll discover how to shape a problem and processing to fit the Hadoop MapReduce framework. We'll then examine the incredible auto-replicating, redundant and self-healing HDFS filesystem. Finally, we'll fire up several Hadoop nodes and watch our calculation process get devoured live by our Hadoop grid. At this talk's conclusion, you'll feel equipped to take on any massive data set and processing your employer can throw at you with absolute ease.


iPad/iPhone Seminar - Part II

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Matthew McCullough By Matthew McCullough

Workshop part II will focus on debugging. First, we will revisit deployment to iPad / iPhone devices, cover common application debugging techniques, writing unit tests, and debugging tools. We will also include time for you to ask questions and work through any issues you are having.



You'll will walk away with a complete understanding of the iPad ecosystem, including the coding, testing, deployment and web mashup processes. You'll be equipped to participate and even initiate your team's next iPad enabled application design and coding efforts.


Git Source Code Control Workshop

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Matthew McCullough By Matthew McCullough

You've heard about Git, Mercurial, Bazaar and the Distributed Version Control System revolution. In this deeply hands on session, we'll load Git on participants laptops, build repositories and share out pieces of work. We'll explore the optimized agile workflows that Git facilitates, building branches for each story card and merging with our team mates, even when a network isn't present. We'll clone an existing Subversion repository, work on it in a Git fashion, and push just the "good changes" back to Subversion, showcasing the incredibly polished interoperability of this radical source code control tool.



This will be a hands on session and requires attendees to bring a laptop (Windows, Linux, or Mac).


iPad/iPhone Seminar - Part III

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Matthew McCullough By Matthew McCullough

Workshop part III will focus on design. The iPad isn't simply a large iPhone. The technology is pretty much the same, but a quick look at some of the new apps and you will see how cool this new device and software platform is. In this session, we will talk about Apple's Human Interface Guidelines and what's new on the iPad platform. We will also provide more time for you to ask questions and work through any issues you may be having.



This session will provide a better understanding of how you should design your iPad apps. We will also point you to the resources which will help you design great apps.


iBeans: The Simplest Service Integrations You've Ever Implemented

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Matthew McCullough By Matthew McCullough

No app is an island nowadays and your bleeding edge Java & JavaScript apps demand that you integrate with Facebook, Amazon, Gmail, Google Search, Twitter or S3 just to name a few. Make your next integration project a breeze by leveraging the successful work of others from the iBeans Central repository, or if necessary, simply author a new iBean and contribute it back for the benefit of all.

iBeans a new ultra-light service integration framework written in Java, but targeting both Java and JavaScript. It provides a centralized mechanism for community contributions of beans to the most commonly used services such as Twitter, Flickr, Gmail and more.



iBeans encourages the higher level programming at the level of integrating such web based services without worrying about the underlying protocols or communication mechanisms. Services are beautifully abstracted in the form of JavaBeans, with JavaScript capabilities added like a cherry on top of a confectionary masterpiece.

This talk wil demonstrate iBeans usage in a real world Java application and explore how easy it is to write and contribute a new bean to iBeans Central for the benefit of the community in true Open Source style.


Migrating to Maven 3.0

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Matthew McCullough By Matthew McCullough

Explore what's new on the cutting edge release of Maven, version 3.0. We'll explore the performance improvements, features that make debugging Maven issues easier, and changes to POMs that may require modifications to your build, but will result in more determinate build outputs.



Maven 3.0 has undergone major refactorings, and correspondingly, a battery of backwards compatibility tests to ensure a smooth transition from Maven 2.0. These refactorings prepare Maven for the next several years of development, including the separation of the POM file language from from the POM in-memory processor, which is already leading to Groovy, Ruby and YAML based POM file parsers.



Books

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  • Streamline software development with Jenkins, the popular Java-based open source tool that has revolutionized the way teams think about Continuous Integration (CI). This complete guide shows you how to automate your build, integration, release, and deployment processes with Jenkins—and demonstrates how CI can save you time, money, and many headaches.

    Ideal for developers, software architects, and project managers, Jenkins: The Definitive Guide is both a CI tutorial and a comprehensive Jenkins reference. Through its wealth of best practices and real-world tips, you'll discover how easy it is to set up a CI service with Jenkins.

    • Learn how to install, configure, and secure your Jenkins server
    • Organize and monitor general-purpose build jobs
    • Integrate automated tests to verify builds, and set up code quality reporting
    • Establish effective team notification strategies and techniques
    • Configure build pipelines, parameterized jobs, matrix builds, and other advanced jobs
    • Manage a farm of Jenkins servers to run distributed builds
    • Implement automated deployment and continuous delivery

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Building and Testing with Gradle Buy from Amazon
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  • Build and test software written in Java and many other languages with Gradle, the open source project automation tool that’s getting a lot of attention. This concise introduction provides numerous code examples to help you explore Gradle, both as a build tool and as a complete solution for automating the compilation, test, and release process of simple and enterprise-level applications.

    Discover how Gradle improves on the best ideas of Ant, Maven, and other build tools, with standards for developers who want them and lots of flexibility for those who prefer less structure.

    • Use Gradle with Groovy, Clojure, Scala, and languages beyond the JVM, such as Flex and C
    • Get started building a simple Java program using Gradle's command line tooling and a small build script
    • Learn how to configure and construct tasks, Gradle's fundamental unit of build activity
    • Take advantage of Gradle's integration with Ant
    • Use Gradle to integrate with or transition from Maven, and to build software more cleanly
    • Perform application unit and integration tests using JUnit, TestNG, Spock, and Geb





Blogs

Johanna Rothman

Agile Lifecycles for Geographically Distributed Teams, Part 3

Posted By: Johanna Rothman on Feb. 3, 2012

Example 3: Using a Project Manager with Iterations and Kanban and Silo’d Teams Here, the developers were in Cambridge, MA, the product owners were in San Francisco, the testers were in Bangalore, and the project manager was always flying somewhere



Johanna Rothman

Why an Agile Project Manager is Not a Scrum Master

Posted By: Johanna Rothman on Feb. 1, 2012

A reader asked why the lifecycle in Agile Lifecycles for Geographically Distributed Teams, Part 1 is not Scrum. It’s not Scrum for these reasons: The project manager and product owner start the release planning and ask the team if the release pla



Howard Lewis Ship

LinkedIn Etiquette

Posted By: Howard Lewis Ship on Jan. 27, 2012

I've used LinkedIn for many years now, long before I joined Facebook .



Howard Lewis Ship

Tapestry Advantages

Posted By: Howard Lewis Ship on Jan. 26, 2012

A summary of a discussion about the advantages of Tapestry over Struts: Exceptional exception reporting Significantly less code Live class reloading Sensible defaults, especially for SEO-friendly URLs Great community Flexibility and customizability



Terry Ryan

Github Ribbons in CSS

Posted By: Terry Ryan on Jan. 25, 2012

Github has these cool ribbon images that you can use if you want to encourage forking your project on your site. They're great and I wanted to use them on a little project I am working on. However, one of my goals was not to use any images, but rather



Johanna Rothman

Agile Lifecycles for Geographically Distributed Teams, Part 2

Posted By: Johanna Rothman on Jan. 25, 2012

Example 2: Using a Project Manager with Kanban, Silo’d Teams This is a product development organization with developers in Italy, testers in India, more developers in New York, product owners and project managers in California. This organization f



Howard Lewis Ship

Tapestry 5.4: Focus on JavaScript

Posted By: Howard Lewis Ship on Jan. 25, 2012

Tapestry 5.3.1 is out in the wild



Terry Ryan

Speaking in Philly this Week

Posted By: Terry Ryan on Jan. 23, 2012

I'll be speaking in my hometown this week. I'll be presenting at the Philadelphia Area New Media Association (PANMA) meeting for January. Topics: jQuery Mobile PhoneGap Typekit Edge CSS Shaders Description: Adobe and HTML5 In the past few months, th



Terry Ryan

Venn Diagram entirely in CSS

Posted By: Terry Ryan on Jan. 23, 2012

A friend of mine alerted me this weekend to just how much I have a weird fascination with Venn diagrams. I decided to roll with it. So yeah, I have an irrational love of Venn diagram



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