Tate Needham over at VSoft Technologies hit the nail on the head with a post: “Who cares if the build is broken?”

“If the development team is serious about creating quality software, then the entire team should care about the build being broken. Even if the team does not use any sort of continuous integration practices, a broken build is never a good thing.”

I know I have seen it time and time again when a team gets buy in by say 90% of the team and everything is going great. But then there is that one day when the other 10% of the team thinks automated builds are a waste of time and money. Those are the folks that ignore the emails about the build being broken. Better yet, they are the folks that yell from the mountain top the WOMB (works on my box) mantra.

“Oh I have to check in the library too for the build to work!”

Playing dumb on a development team never really pays off now does it!

It was based on the write up by Derick over at AvacodoSoftware.com: The Build Is Broken… Who Cares?

Tags: Automise, development, software, VSoft

VSoft Technologies has released their public beta of their Automise tool.

What is Automise? Refer to my original Automise 1 post.

Once again a ton of new functionality has been added. Check out What’s new in Automise 2.

As I stated in my previous Automise post, I can not say enough great things about this tool and VSoft (Tate and Vincent do an incredible job!). You doing anything more than a couple times, you should Automise it!

Other Automise post: Automise 1.5 Released post.

Thanks Tate & Vincent.

Tags: Automise, VSoft

VSoft Technologies has just released Automise 1.5 update. Making an already great product even better.

Download your trial copy of Automise now. Better yet, download it and register it to support a great bunch of developers.

What is Automise? Refer to my original Automise 1 post.

Tate and Vincent (and whole VSoft team, keep up the awesome work)!

Tags: Automise, VSoft

VSoft Technologies has another excellent tool to add to your arsenal if you are a developer or even a system administrator, called Automise.

Tate and Vincent has taken their FinalBuilder engine and created a simplified, but extremely powerful automation tool. Do you have tasks you do everyday, every week, every month… you HAVE to look at this tool. Check this out:

What can Automise do?

Automise enables anyone to quickly and easily automate a wide variety of tasks by using the huge library of built in actions in Automise. An example of what is possible includes:

• file operations (copy, move, create, delete, etc)
• CD/DVD burning
• database manipulations using SQL or Stored procedures
• FTP operations (put, get, create directory, etc)
• Run VBScript or JScript code
• iterate files, folders, file content, lists, etc
• IIS 5 and 6 operations (start, stop, create website, etc)
• create zip files, unpack RAR files, etc
• manipulate XML files
• operate on the .NET GAC
• WMI operations
• and much, much more!

This is a great tool for any IT person working on the Windows platform.

Download your trial copy of Automise now.

Tags: Automise, VSoft