CruiseControl 2.3 Released
This is a really boring post, but I really like this product. If you are not doing continuous integration and automated builds at your shop, then get with it.
CruiseControl is an incredibly easy way to add confidence to your build process. And in the end, that is what these tools offer. They are not a way to complicate things or to supervise your developers, but they are way to introduce a level of confidence into your development process. If you run CruiseControl every hour, or every time someone does a commit to CVS, then you have the confidence that something is watching the build. If something breaks, you know about it immediately and you only have a little bit of time and changes to go through to fix the problem. Without something like CruiseControl, when something goes wrong, how do you even know where to start looking?
Anyway, the point of this entry is to say that CruiseControl 2.3 was released today. So go check it out.