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Been playing with Hudson recently, and I am impressed. Easy to setup and use (well, that is relative...) It even has a Chuck Norris plugin

The best way to get started with Hudson and PHP is Sebastian Bergmann's php-hudson-template, but there are also other good articles: Ladislav Prskavec's PHP and Hudson, and Goran Juric's Hudson on Debian Lenny.

I needed to get it running on Windows, so there were some additional hoops to jump through, such as some pear-installed tools hard-coding ./php.exe in .bat files, but almost everything else just works.

Update: Found some more articles, by Dave Gardner and Justin Palmer

Also, having more Windows troubles (though it could be something else) - can't get a build to succeed, even though all the tests are passing... in the end I modified some of the tools to always return zero. The real setup is on a Linux box anyway, and it all works fine there - except that graphs use some funny-looking fonts (fonts were just missing, yum installing a few font collections and restarting hudson fixed it.)

After over a year of on-and-off tweaks and updates, I have finally released version 0.7 of SphinxSearch Extension for MediaWiki. There are several new options, support for latest version of sphinx, initial support for MW search API, and the extension now follows the usual MW conventions for localizations, autoload, etc.

It is not just because it is the best compression utility for Windows. I like it because after each command-line extraction it tells you:

Everything is Ok

I should add this at the end of all my scripts. Things may be terribly wrong, but still, everything is OK