The Integrate Button website (from Paul Duvall’s book on Continuous Integration) recently published a screencast on using the Hudson Continuous Integration server - along with Subversion, Ant, HSQL and other tools. Click the image below to get started.

The screencast demonstrates the following steps:

• Checkout source files from the Subversion repository - locally
• Run the automated build locally
• Commit files to Subversion
• Download, install and configure Hudson - from Hudson website or from IntegrateButton scripts
• Make a code change (with error) and checkin files
• Get notified of error, automatically, via Hudson
• Fix code errors, commit change and see results in Hudson

3240 revisions, 3124 pages written, 336 pages published
911 days, 100 weekends, 30 unpaid days off work
651 Starbucks mochas…

Check out the book trailer promoting the release of Continuous Integration: Improving Software Quality and Reducing Risk and see if you’re not enticed to order a few copies.

If you were wondering who that stranger was that accosted you and handed out an extremely handy and undoubtedly cool ruler, you can learn more about him (and his company) by watching this interview that took place in between random ruler handouts. If you look closely, you can even see people seeking out the rulers in the background.

Don’t forget to pick up a few copies of the newly released “Continuous Integration: Improving Software Quality and Reducing Risk” book too!

Here is a vidcast of a short CruiseControl.NET Demo. You can get a look and feel of what a continous integration server can do for you.

Paul Duvall and Levent Gurses have posted a vidcast (video podcast) discussing Levent’s presentation at the Better Software Conference next week in Vegas. Levent’s talk covers Eclipse and how a carefully selected set of plugins (JDepend4Eclipse, Checkstyle, Coverlipse, PMD, and Metrics) can help you create better quality code.

If you can’t check out his live presentation in Vegas, simply have a watch below and let us know what you think. Enjoy the show!