There are a number of changes that make the developer VM more useful. This post will have a look at them.

Go spelunking in the schema.xml files on the dev VM to discover more data types.

If you’re using Gradle to build and package your Building Blocks, it’s remarkably easy to add a version number to the war file that Gradle creates.

This is the fourth post in a series about how All the Ducks builds a Blackboard building block where we take the project we created at the end of the last post and expand it to build an actual building block that can be installed into Blackboard.

This is the third post in a series about how All the Ducks builds a building block where we’ll use Gradle to build a ‘Hello World’ building block.

This is the second post in a series about how All the Ducks builds a Blackboard Building block in which I document the tools we use to develop Blackboard building blocks.

This is the first in a series of posts about how All the Ducks builds a blackboard building block that will break down the structure of our building blocks.