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Software development is a creative, fluid endeavor. In order to develop good software, developers need tools that will enable them to work effectively as individuals and as part of a team. Software development is all about people; people building tools for other people. One emerging realization of most modern methodologies is that people are the most important factor, regardless of methodology, and that every developer works differently but all of them have the same goal in mind: to create working software that satisfies a need.
Our “Age of Anxiety” is, in great part, the result of trying to do today’s job with yesterday’s tools—with yesterday’s concepts.
—Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore, The Medium Is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects (Hardwired Books, 1996).
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Sam-Bodden, B., Judd, C. (2004). Development and Build System with Ant. In: Enterprise Java Development on a Budget: Leveraging Java Open Source Technologies. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0682-8_3
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