Tag Archives: Matthew McCullough

First day impressions of Maven 201


June 30, 2010 By hloney

A long time advocate of the open source community, and contributor to the Sonatype’s Maven books, Manfred Moser, recently enrolled in our Maven training courses, and has decided to document and share his experiences. First on tap is Maven 201 with Matthew McCullough.

The training started well, when Matt mentioned that he thinks deleting a line of code improves the code you are working on. I totally agree and always found refactoring sessions that remove reams of code especially satisfying.

Manfred then goes on to list his impressions of Maven 201, including the points that really stuck out for him.

It is amazing how much you can theoretically configure the build with profiles and then lock things down with plugin/dependency management and the enforcer plugin – for heavy regulated environments or tight requirements this is ideal.

To follow Manfred’s experiences throughout his Maven training courses, go to his blog.

JAXenter interview with Matthew McCullough


June 17, 2010 By hloney

Matthew McCullough, a member of the Sonatype training team and lead presenter with Ambient Ideas, was recently at JAX 2010 in Mainz.

Matthew is an international Java conference speaker, and is an active Maven community member, and an active contributor to many open source, and several Maven-specific projects, such as the Maven 2 CLI Plugin.

He sat down for an interview with JAXenter to talk about Maven.  Click here for the full interview in German (the English version will be available soon).

And to see the full offering of Sonatype training courses, click here.