Quick, if you were to guess a technology I’d be making commits on an open source project using, would Apache Ant be at the top of the list? I didn’t think so. But yet, here I am committing an Ant Build script to Paul’s excellent HTML5 Boilerplate project. It makes sense since I’ve done work on concatenation, minification and other performance enhancements using Ant, but it’s still a weird technology to be contributing to such a cool project with…

It’s actually be a lot of fun as I’ve dived deeper into Ant than I would ever have had to normally. I feel like I’m pretty handy with it now and watching my initial work get improved upon by other folks has been fun all by itself.

I’m working on a write up of what I did and how to use it. I’ll share it here soon.