(Apologies to Stephen R Covey for the title...)

Through some odd coincidence these posts crossed my path recently:

• Check In Early, Check In Often [comments here are especially good]
• Best Practices for Version Control
• 5 SVN Best Practices
• Continuous Integration is an Attitude, Not a Tool

What I got to ...

I'm working on a set of Django apps right now. Here are some of the things I'm doing to filter out defects as I work:

Design Review

I do a handwritten (paper) design. I like to design offline — I find that this forces me to do two things ...

Yesterday I posted twenty reasons to do code reviews, and I promised a list of code review tools. Here they are, in no particular order. I have not used all of them, so I can't comment on their relative merits. If there are some I missed, please leave a ...

Update [2008-12-31]: I posted the list of code review tools as promised below.

I tweeted this article on Five Reasons to Do Code Reviews from CIO.com last week,and realized that there are much more than the five reasons they give. So I came up with 20 more over ...