Before now I've talked about our use of the Subversion version control system and Visual Studio.Net 2008. These are two of the most important tools we all use in our day-to-day operations. Today I am going to talk about another one that saves us a lot of time and potential mistakes: Final Builder.

Programmer's Heaven is a large site. To keep the code base modular, we break it up into many libraries. Some of these libraries provide primitives that we use all over the place. On top of this bottom "layer" are another set of modules that relate to specific features. For example, we have the wiki engine, the forum, the blog engine and so on. Finally, there is the web project for the site itself...