Effy's Blog

Setting up new environment is usually a great time to reflect on all the great things and all the bad things you had encountered in the past. Now I had just experienced this very moment twice in a row, thus resulting in a full scale tools revision. One of the things I have always overlooked were command line aliases. Once I decided to use aliases, another question was in order: Why to stop there, isn't there a way to put them to even better use? And after a while of googling I found a great article http://erics-notes.blogspot.cz/2013/06/maven-ant-alerts-in-ubuntu.html , it describes how to get system notifications from command line.

When you are building a brand new application, it is usually the time, to challenge the old principles and to conserve the good ones while replacing the rest. My latest challenge was ... providing visible time of build and version of web application build with Maven . If you are now thinking "bah, that is just easy", you are right, because it is. But my path towards the solution presented in this post was not as easy and straightforward as I would have imagined, so I am presenting one hopefully simple instruction how to do it.