Rsync Snapshot Backups Revisited

A while ago, I blogged about my self-made backup solution, a simple shell script using rsync to create snapshot backups. This wasn’t my first attempt at establishing backups for my private workstation but the most successful one so far. The backup takes less than 5 minutes for about 10 GB of data in my home [...]

The State of Java Build Systems

Most people eventually get it that building release artifacts using their IDEs is not the way to nirvana. Builds have to stay stable and reproducible between IDE revisions, and being able to execute them in a command line environment or especially continuous integration servers is key to agile development.
Fortunately, there are open source build tools [...]