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Back to the future: Even quicker turnaround

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One of the benefits of using Mindscape products is that we make available nightly builds, so you can get fixes and enhancements turned around as quickly as a very quick thing.

To help our customers even more, we have moved the nightly build process to execute in the New Zealand evening, rather than approximately 3am New Zealand time. This means that the “next nightly build” should typically be available around midday for European countries and by start of business of US customers.

The cool thing about this which may not be immediately obvious is that New Zealand is geographically based at the international dateline meaning our day starts before customers in other countries. So, for example, when you wake up bright and early and stroll into work on morning of the 15th of October, the nightly build from the evening of the 15th of October, containing all the spiffy toys we added that day, is already waiting for you – freshly baked, from the future.

The pratical impact is you now get the nightly builds about 4 hours earlier. Another way of making development easier with Mindscape tools, we hope you like it :-)

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Posted by John-Daniel Trask on 14 October 2010

2 Responses to “Back to the future: Even quicker turnaround”

1. When this build server hits 88 mph (39.33952 m / s) you are going to see some serious builds. :)

   It is amazing how fast the builds are turned around.

   Keep up the good work and if you get bored, set up builds every 12 hours so I can watch you fix and build customer requests in “real time”.

   Joe Feser Oct 27th, 2010

2. Thanks Joe! :-)

   Think we’ll need a dev team working in the night to make multiple builds a day possible – and probably a 16GB behemoth of a build server like you’ve built yourself! ;-)

   John-Daniel Trask Oct 27th, 2010

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