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As web applications get more and more complex, a lot of issues concerning the management of code and communication between participating developers all over the globe are starting to rise. The larger a development team gets, the more difficult it is to manage it. Imagine the chaos that ensues if no measures to facilitate the codes submitted by the developers are put in place.

There have been a number of ways introduced in order to address this. First is the installation of a version control system, of which the most popular in the market is Apache's Subversion. Using a version control system, one central code repository is used by the team to build the application. Each of the developers are given a module to develop. They get the initial code to work on from the repository and once they are finished with their task, they commit it to the code, with the assumption that anything committed is working. This ensures that any failure in the code can be directly traced to a specific developer and that code conflicts are avoided.

But something can be still be done about this. For one, a code repository is just a code repository. It does not really compile the code periodically to see that it is still working. Nowadays, it isn't really the developer who builds the code anymore, but a build server, just like Husdon, which I am playing with these days.

Using a build server, each time a developer commits code to the repository, it is immediately built. You can even see the console output on the webpage as it gets built. Therefor, if a build fails, you can trace where the error takes place. Furthermore, most build servers have the feature of emailing all concerned developers each time a build takes place. Code is managed, builds are scheduled, and information is immediately dispersed to the team. Using a build server for your web applications is surely a must-have if you have multiple people on your development team.

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