With the recent release of Subversion 1.4 I’m going through the process of updating repositories. I often like to use multiple repositories because Subversion versions the entire repository with each checkin (Atomic commits rule!). When I do that, I group all of the repositories in the same directory. It makes it really easy to configure [...]

How far is going to far when you are doing build automation? My answer to that question, is that it’s basically not possible to go to far. Any task that you need to do more than three times deserves automation. Three times is my heuristic. The longer and more complex the task, the smaller the [...]