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Pipe Viewer is one of those little-known gems that once you find it, you can't recall how you lived without it. Find oodles of uses for it in your automation scripts. You can now insert a probe to give you real-time feedback of whats happening in your pipes.

SketchUp, with its script interpreter, takes the pain out of 3-D modeling. and allows you to automate the design process with Ruby scripts. But although SketchUp provides the script interpreter, it doesn't provide an editor; that's where Eclipse comes in. Learn how to configure SketchUp and Eclipse so you can edit scripts in Eclipse and automatically execute them in SketchUp.

Smelly code will surely cost you valuable time. How much time do you spend maintaining project build scripts? Probably much more than you'd expect or would like to admit. This article shows you how to improve a number of common build practices to create consistent, repeatable, and maintainable builds. Knock the stink off those scripts.