(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Saw this post over at the Project Team Blog Our Projects Are Always Late. Newshirt asks (I'm paraphrasing) "Why would this person not use a time tracking tool?"

Two answers:

1. Because it feels like an extra step. If you want to change a behavior like time tracking, you have ...

It's an amazing thing when your development tools work together.

In the bad old days, we thought it was cool when the editor could work in concert with source control. It blew my mind when we first had source control with integrated bug tracking. (Wow, you can see the ...