Summary of XMPP

XMPP is what Google Talk is based on, and seems to be an open standard for "xml streaming" based technologies. Hmm, watch this one...

A Primer on Object-Oriented Programming

This little primer page on oop was good for refreshing my memory on the basics of OO (ie: Encapsulation, Inheritance, and Polymorphism). However, it describes Polymorphism as overloading functions (ie: having multiple methods with the same signature), which is wrong; polymorphism is the ability of an object to behave as a different (base) type or interface, from the point of view of a caller.

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Welcome to CruiseControl.NET - Confluence

CruiseControl.Net is an automated continuous integration server, which is useful for agile development.

As far as I can see from my initial survey, you put together scripts which define an "integration" build (ie: building all your software, maybe run some tests), and give that to CruiseControl. It then monitors your source control system for changes, and every time it sees a change it grabs the latest code and runs the script, then notifies you of any problems. It also seems to be able to label the source control repository if the build is successful, and I assume you get nice builds out the other end.

I really need to try this out, it's a bloody excellent idea if it works well.

Oh, and did I forget to mention that it is open source? Lol!