The Daily Build

(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 thinking about is that version control is one of the foundation [...]

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This is a round-up of continuous integration tools, in no particular order.

CruiseControl: Open source, Java-based. Focused on build.
Cruise: Commercial. Build/test/deploy/release. Works for most platforms and languages. Free for small and open source teams.
CruiseControl.NETOpen source rewrite of the original CruiseControl for Java.
Hudson: Open source, Java-based, runs as servlet. Supports build and test. Other processes supported via [...]

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