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Some of you may be aware of Kent Beck's Four Rules of Simple Code that state simple code: Correctly runs (and passes) all the tests Contains no duplication ( OnceAndOnlyOnce and The DRY Principle ) Clearly expresses all the ideas/intentions we needed...
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Some of the discussion with my co-authors on our May 2008 CM Journal article on Agile Release Management spurred some additional thoughts by me that I hope to refine and work into a subsequent article later this year. Release Management is about so much...
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My Agile SCM co-authors Rob Cowham, Steve Berczuk, and myself have written an article for the May CM Journal on An Agile Approach to Release Management We're relatively pleased with the article, and all collaborated together quite well. Read More...
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Nice little guide on InfoQ.com about Distributed Version Control - that's twice in two months that the " agile " section of InfoQ.com has had a decent article on the subject! Read More...
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A colleague of mine had a question for me about Distributed Versions Control Systems (or DVCS). There are a growing number of such systems these days: Mercurial , Bazaar , git , svk , BitKeeper , Gnu Arch , darcs , Monotone , Codeville , Arx , just to...
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The November 2007 issue of the CM Journal was devoted to the theme of " What Best Practice is Best? " Joe Farah's article on The Top 10 SCM Best Practices was quite possibly the best article on SCM best practices that I've come across...
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Several years back there was an interesting open-source Eclipse project named " Stellation " at www.eclipse.org/stellation. It was to be an advanced/modern version control tool with lightweight branching and support for fine-grained checkout...
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Eric Raymond , famed OpenSource co-founder and Unix guru, author of The Cathedral and the Bazaar and The Art of Unix Programming , is currently working on a draft of a work entitled " Understanding Version Control " It is an interesting read...
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The April issue of the CM Journal , and there is a FANTASTIC article in it by Austin Hastings about his Longacre Deployment Management strategy for dealing with database CM. It's long, but well worth the read for the insight into a new way of thinking...
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My paper in this month's issue of The CM Journal is about Lean-based Metrics for Agile CM Environments . This month we take an "Agile" slant on metrics for CM, including the CM process itself. Agility is supposed to be people-centric and...
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The folks over at SmartBear software have written a nice little book entitled The Best Kept Secrets of Code Reviews . It's free if you go over to their webpage and ask for it (you have to fill out a registration form, and it takes a few weeks to arrive...
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Just received two new books about version-control tools: Essential CVS, 2nd edition , by Jennifer Vesperman [See the sample online chapter containing the CVS quickstart guide] Global Outsourcing with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System , by Jamil...
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From Pete Behrens' Agile Executive Blog , the results to the Agile Tooling Survey they conducted in October are now available online at http://trailridgeconsulting.com/surveys.html : With over 500 survey responses from 39 countries, we feel this survey...
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In my last blog-entry I wondered if the interface segregation principle (ISP) translated into something about baselines/configuration, or codelines, or workspaces, or build-management. Then I asked if it might possibly relate to all them, Here's a...
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