Do you use source control tools to manage your software development process? Source control was the very first item on Joel Spolsky's Joel Test for the quality of a development team back in 2000.

I suspect the last is the most important, because, human nature being what it is, I'd probably look for ways to "get around" the system if it were too complicated or too onerous to use and defeat the ...

In today’s code development environment, projects often span multiple platforms, languages, and even geographical boundaries. Because of the many challenges of managing people throughout the ...

This retail energy bundler has a huge data warehouse that contains all sorts of promotions and aggregated billing data, according to a recently hired pilot fish who works on it. “I was tasked with ...

David Petersheim advocates using source code control when you need to recreate work. He offers details on these functions of source code control: concurrent updates, history, source code archives, ...

Git, the open source distributed version control system created by Linus Torvalds to handle Linux’s decentralized development model, is being used for a rather surprising project: Windows.

FEW IN IT continue to nurse doubts about the capabilities of open-source software. Yet when companies weigh open-source Web and database servers against costly commercial alternatives, open source ...