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Hello, friends of
SourceHosting.net!
It's the New Year, and no doubt your project work has ramped up
again. In this edition of SourceHosting.news, we have some ideas to
improve your productivity as you develop your software applications.
Keep your comments
and feedback coming, and we'll talk again in the spring.
All the best,
Greg Larkin, Owner/Founder
| 2006 - A Big Year Planned for
SourceHosting.net |
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2006 is here, and we at SourceHosting.net are excited.
Expect to see changes and improvements from us this year, as
we add resources to deliver your requested features. Some of
the things we are working on for you include:
- Eventum
hosting (full-featured issue tracking system)
- Migration to CVSNT
(ACL
support for controlling repository access)
- Replace stunnel with SSH (easier setup and better
integration with IDEs)
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| Winter Reading List |
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Isn't it about time to curl up in front of the fireplace
with a mug of hot cider and enrich yourself with some light
reading?
The Pragmatic
Programmers are a highly regarded source of books and
other materials to help you learn the trade of software
engineering, not just the mechanics of "banging out code".
SourceHosting.net recommends these books in particular:
This sample
chapter about tagging and branching is an excellent
example of the immediately-usable information that you'll get
from their books.
(Note: we don't receive any royalties for recommending
these books - we just think they are well-written and will be
helpful to our customers.)
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| CVS Best Practices |
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Do you want to make sure you are using your CVS repository
to its full potential? If so, have a look at the CVS
Best Practices web site, written by high-level software
consultant Vivek Venugopalan.
This concisely-written document has excellent advice for
getting your team on the same page for maximum efficiency,
including concepts like "one
sandbox, one developer".
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Ask The Source |
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Q: Hi Greg,
We're using your CVS hosting
solution, and we need to release incremental bug fixes to our
software while also working full-steam on our next release.
How can we do both at the same time?
A: You can
easily accomplish this with "branching" and "merging" in your
CVS repository. Read on...
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