There are endless development tasks that we do (or should do) day in,
day out, and doing them by hand is tedious and error-prone.

I'd like to find out how different people automate their routine tasks,
such as executing tests, notifying developers of bugs, rebuilding code,
and so on.

I can give a short presentation on writing a a Mercurial hook task to
post repo push messages to IRC.

I'd much prefer not to be the only one presenting; can anyone else offer
a short demo of some automation task or tool they're using?

--
James Britt

"Serious engineering is only a few thousand years old. Our attempts at
deliberately producing very complex robust systems are immature at best."
  - Gerald Jay Sussman