Peter Farrell, lead developer on the Mach-II project and frequent conference speaker on automation, will be our speaker for February. His topic will be ant, an amazingly flexible tool that lets you automate all sorts of daily tasks.

"Apache ANT is an open source tool for automating software build processes. Learn how to leverage ANT to automate tedious and error prone tasks that you do day-to-day like testing your application, packing code for deployment and deploying a package to production systems. Find out the basics on how to use ANT through its' built-in tasks (file system operations, ZIP, FTP, SSH and more) and leverage third-party tools such as Selenium for functional testing of your UI, CFCUnit for unit testing, integration with SVN/CVS and javascript/CSS minifiers such as JSMin or YUICompressor. This presentation will demonstrate using ANT to deploy an application to a production system in as little of as a double-click and you're done!"

Peter will be speaking to us remotely from Minneapolis, via Adobe Acrobat Connect. The meeting will be broadcast and recorded but you will still get the best experience by attending BACFUG in person so that you can network with your peers and discuss development issues - as well as partake of pizza and beer and, of course, our monthly raffle where you can win an online training course from Webucator!

6:30pm - networking / drinks

7:00pm - main presentation

8:00pm - Q&A and monthly raffle!