I think I’ve finally found the nicest balance of smaller scale support servers since XPlanner. It’s taken almost 10 years. XPlanner was the old php-based X-treme project manament web tool used almost exclusively by developers (IMHExperience). It had sprints in it, and even pair tracking. You might think management has taken over all the […]
For the most recent ECTech Meetup meeting this morning was a quick breakfast techfast (and I was running late) and thoughts about big data and NoSQL databases. Consensus seems that everyone wants to use a big data engine, but no one can really find a reason to. Reasons cited: How to integrate into existing applications? […]
Logging this because it was kind of difficult to track down. We have a Gitblit instance running for our developer repository on a Fedora machine. It really is a wonderful tool; up and going practically out of the box. But one of the problems we have been having is that duplicate names for the same […]
I was working with an “expert”. He was working on a major refactor that was going to break several hundred of our tests. Now, probably the best way to do this with ANY repo would be either to branch and make the change, and then do the fixes and merge when it was all good […]
The one thing I REALLY love about distributed version control is the ease of branching. There is nothing like it. If you are currently on SVN you know what a pain it is to check out another branch and switch your workspace over, or (gag) try to roll back your local. Not so wtih Git […]