This web pages are created with the help of the Ant tool. I even include a banner in the botton of my page to publicity that (the purple one with an Ant). Ant is not a real web development tool. Still, I use it and an XSLT library to process and publish the web pages. I should mention this, because this week I upgraded Ant from version 1.5 to 1.6.
I am not keen on the upgrades. (Yeah! Seems I am a conservative in some way, and I refuse to follow up with technology improvements). My rule is: if it works, keep with it. I usually believe that new versions, do not always add new functionality. Besides, this last weeks I am really busy, and changes usually require time.
But Ant 1.6 includes a new selector to detect if files have changed: <modify> (Using hashcodes, instead of the dates). That functionality will be great so I just upload the files that have really changed the contents. (Before I used to upload all the .html files of the site, and they are about 200... too much time).
3 hoorays for the Ant guys!!. There were very important changes in the application, and I was afraid it would either require too much time (that I had not) or important changes in all my configuration (that I did not feel like doing). The upgrade was fairy simple and I did not had to spend so much time with it (and there were nearly no issues because of the new Java libraries).
So here is a the same version of the web site (no changes on the web site so far) but build with a new version of Ant. (And this is all, small news make big place in my web page).
