On phpPatterns.com, there's a new posting talking about a product called Rephlux and how it can help you create a simpler development process.

Suspending skepticism for a moment, the notion of Continuous Integration (much like Unit Testing) is grounded very much in practical reality. Continuous Integration is about automating your build process (preparing a software project for end users), cutting out wasted man hours spent on mundane tasks and unnecessary bug hunts.

Basically, the script is a validator for your code, checking all along the way that there are no bugs, and performing a task based on whether or not it passes. It even logs not only the success (like out to an RSS for example), but it pushes the errors and their location out to a file as well.