Led by Sonatype’s Senior Systems Engineer, Blaine Mincey, this webinar will highlight features that are available with the Hudson Integration feature of Maven Studio for Eclipse. It will review the benefits of Hudson Integration directly from your Eclipse development environment. It will show you how Hudson Integration will increase productivity by allowing you to view the build results from your Hudson jobs within your own IDE. Finally, it will demonstrate how you can track the status of interesting jobs in Hudson so you know immediately if something needs to be fixed without leaving your IDE.

It’s not too late to register, see you tomorrow!

Sonatype’s Senior Systems Engineer, Blaine Mincey, will review the benefits of Hudson Integration directly from your Eclipse development environment. This webinar will show you how Hudson Integration will increase productivity by allowing you to view the build results from your Hudson jobs within your own IDE. Finally, it will demonstrate how you can track the status of interesting jobs in Hudson so you know immediately if something needs to be fixed without leaving your IDE.

Register for this webinar today!

Hudson Integration with Maven Studio for Eclipse

• When: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 @ 6:00 AM PDT, 3:00 PM Europe Summer Time (GMT +02:00)
• Who: Blaine Mincey, Senior Systems Engineer, Sonatype

This webinar will highlight features that are available with the Hudson Integration feature of Maven Studio for Eclipse. It will review the benefits of Hudson Integration directly from your Eclipse development environment.   Finally, it will demonstrate how you can track the status of interesting jobs in Hudson so you know immediately if something needs to be fixed without leaving your IDE.

Hudson Integration with Maven Studio for Eclipse webinar:

• Tuesday September 28, 2010
• 6:00 am PDT, 3:00 pm Europe Summer Time (GMT+02:00)
• To register, please click here

Webinar instructors are industry-leading experts in the field, and are eager to pass on best practices for Sonatype products, such as Maven Studio for Eclipse.

How much time and money are you wasting on getting new developers up to speed on a project? 

Developers sacrifice days to the inefficient process of configuring a new development environment every time they begin a new project or set up a new workstation. Maven Studio for Eclipse’s Developer Onboarding cuts the configuring time from multiple days to minutes. Developer Onboarding allows an organization to standardize and capture development environment configuration in a single location, enabling developers to start coding with a single mouse click.

The webinar takes place on Thursday July 29 at 6:00am PDT. It will be led by Blaine Mincey, Senior Systems Engineer at Sonatype. Although this webinar is free, registration is required. We look forward to you joining us this Thursday!

This webinar is an introduction to Maven Studio for Eclipse’s Developer Onboarding capabilities. Developers sacrifice days to the inefficient process of configuring a new development environment every time they begin a new project or set up a new workstation. Maven Studio for Eclipse’s Developer Onboarding cuts the configuring time from multiple days to minutes. Developer Onboarding allows an organization to standardize and capture development environment configuration in a single location, enabling developers to start coding with a single mouse click.

The webinar takes place on Thursday July 29 at 6:00am PDT.  It will be led by Blaine Mincey, Senior Systems Engineer at Sonatype.  Although this webinar is free, registration is required.  We look forward to you joining us next week!

Webinar instructors are industry-leading experts in the field, and are eager to pass on best practices for Sonatype products, such as Maven Studio for Eclipse.

The next Maven Studio for Eclipse webinar will be held on July 29, 2010, lead by Sonatype’s Blaine Mincey.

Join Sonatype’s Blaine Mincey Wednesday at 10:30am PDT for the next installment of our MSE webinars.  This webinar will cover the Developer Onboarding feature of MSE.

Get ahead of the competition and boost efficiency by getting new developers productive in just minutes.

This webinar is an introduction to Maven Studio for Eclipse’s Developer Onboarding capabilities. Developers sacrifice days to the inefficient process of configuring a new development environment every time they begin a new project or set up a new workstation. Maven Studio for Eclipse’s Developer Onboarding cuts the configuring time from multiple days to minutes. Developer Onboarding allows an organization to standardize and capture development environment configuration in a single location, enabling developers to start coding with a single mouse click.

This webinar is free to attend, but registration is required.  To sign up click here.

This particular inefficiency is the proverbial “elephant in the room” because you have to actively ignore how much time a team of ten or a hundred developers spends installing, reinstalling, tweaking, experimenting with, and arguing over different development environments. We’ve automated almost every other aspect of the enterprise, but the developers are still hand-crafting custom workstations.

An Acceptable Inefficiency

When Sonatype was doing research for Maven Studio for Eclipse we followed a few programmers through the process of onboarding.  From start the finish, the worst case took a week and a half and the best case took less than a day.  The one thing in common with almost all of the onboarding processes we witnessed were poor or nonexistent documentation and a reliance on “word-of-mouth” infrastructure configuration.   A new developer would show up on Day One, fill out some HR forms, and then be thrown at a new workstation with nothing more than an Operating System and a Mail client.   It would be up to him to figure out what to download and how to configure his development environment.

Manager: Welcome aboard.  Here’s your desk, now make sure to ask around within the group to find out what version of Eclipse we’ve standardized on.   Don’t worry, we haven’t added you to the schedule for at least a week or two.  That’s just how long it takes people to install everything, checkout all the code, and start contributing.

In the industry I’ve been working in, this is the norm.   It takes days or weeks to come up to speed on a set of new tools, and you usually have to tease out information from a group of engineers who might not even be using the same tools or versions of source control.   Even in environments focused on efficiency, installing all the software components that comprise a development environment still takes a surprising amount of time.

Maven Studio for Eclipse: Developer Onboarding

At Sonatype, we’ve suffered through this same inefficiency ourselves.  Setting up a workspace to develop Nexus Pro or m2eclipse usually took a few days start to finish.   Because of this, we created a developer onboarding tool called Maven Studio for Eclipse to dramatically reduce the amount of time required to setup a developer workstation.  With this new tool, a new programmer who starts working on the Nexus project can get productive in a few minutes with all of the Eclipse plugins, project source code, and build infrastructure she needs preconfigured and ready to use.

Using Maven Studio for Eclipse, a build engineer can configure a custom Eclipse distribution and then publish Eclipse configuration to a new version of Nexus:  Nexus Team Edition.  Nexus Team Edition is a version of Nexus optimized for proxying P2 repositories and Eclipse Update Sites and designed to interact with our professional Eclipse product: Maven Studio for Eclipse.

When you use the Developer Onboarding feature of Maven Studio for Eclipse, a setup process that would have taken a few days is condensed into an automated process which takes a few minutes.    Eclipse components, project configuration, and source code is all automatically downloaded during a process we call “Codebase Materialization”.   Build engineers can configure an Eclipse environment once, publish this configuration to Nexus Team Edition and distribute a simple URL to a team of developers.   Developers then click on a link and walk through a simple wizard to materialize a workspace on a local machine.

Maven Studio for Eclipse is already saving Sonatype a considerable amount of time.  If you are interested in saving time and learning more about Maven Studio for Eclipse or if you would like to take the product for a test drive, contact us for more information at: info@sonatype.com.    You can also download the latest version of the Sonatype m2eclipse book and read three new chapters on “Maven Studio for Eclipse”.