Author Archives: Terry Bernstein

About Terry Bernstein

Terry is Sonatype's Director of Product marketing, responsible for all marketing content. Terry brings with him a distinguished background including nearly 15 years of experience in product marketing and product management at both large companies (Cisco Systems) and startups (CURRENT Group). Prior to joining Sonatype, Terry was the Director of Product Management and Marketing at CURRENT Group, a startup focused on broadband over powerline (BPL) communications and Smart Grid. While at Cisco Systems he product managed a variety of key hardware and software products. Terry provided IT consulting to large multi-national enterprises while at SRI (formerly Stanford Research Institute), and ran the unclassified networks for the Office of the Secretary of Defense in the Pentagon while an Air Force Captain. Terry has published a book on Internet Security and holds 2 patents related to BPL and Smart Grid. He is a proud graduate of Stanford University with a BS/MS in Computer Science (emphasis on Computer Systems) and holds an MBA from UC Berkeley.

How to publish your Gradle project to the Central Repository


November 14, 2011 By Terry Bernstein

Sonatype makes it easy to add your projects to the Central Repository with a free, public hosting service called OSSRH, that we recently wrote about here.  Many developers have found this a very useful service and easy to use with Apache Maven.  However, if you’ve started using Gradle, you may have wondered if you could continue using the service.  The answer is absolutely YES.

We were talking about creating a guide for this, but someone in the community beat us to it.  Yennick Trevels published an excellent guide in his blog that you can find here.  We highly recommend checking out his post if you want to use Gradle to deploy artifacts to the Central Repository.

Evaluate Open Source Components Before Use: Open Source Development Tip #5


October 31, 2011 By Terry Bernstein

We’ve been publishing a series of tips on managing open source development to maximize benefits and minimize the risks. In case you missed them, you can find the other posts in the series here and a summary of the entire set of tips here. In today’s post, we continue with a tip on choosing open source components to ensure quality and avoid unnecessary license or security risk. Continue reading →

Start With a Pilot Program: Open Source Development Tip #4


October 21, 2011 By Terry Bernstein

We’ve been publishing a series of tips on managing open source development to maximize your benefits and minimize the risks.  In case you missed them, you can find the other posts in the series here.  In today’s post, we continue the series with a tip on getting started with a pilot program. You’ll find a summary of the entire set of tips here. Continue reading →