Often when I’m on a job interview, I’ll ask whether or not the company I’m talking with makes use of an automated build system of any kind. More often than not, the answer I get is somewhere along the lines of “build systems are irrelevant to the web; we can simply upload changes instantly.”
This thinking could not be farther from the truth. Build systems are just as relevant to the web (if not more so) than they are to compiled code. Build systems offer significant advantages to the development of software applications, and it is crucial that developers not take them for granted.
Friday, January 8th, 2010 @ 1:00 am |
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Categories: Technology, Best Practices
Tags: continuous integration, phing, build scripts, build system, automated build