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 ...

Happy birthday, Git. The open source distributed version control system was first released on April 7th 2005, and thus today marks its 15th anniversary - 15 years aiding software developers to ...

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.

Microsoft announced on January 30 its roadmap for adding support for Git to its Visual Studio development-tool suite and Team Foundation app-lifecycle-management technologies. Cue flying pigs -- or ...

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 ...

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.

Many issues involved with Linux kernel development are different from traditional software development processes. When working on a portion of the kernel (or a specific driver), you need to 1) stay ...

Ahead of Trinity’s Code for Ethics event, Martin Callinan discusses the benefits open-source software can offer – along with the risks and ethical questions companies should consider. Martin Callinan ...

The source code for the ten-year old Symbian platform will be completely open source and available for free starting Thursday. The transition from proprietary code to open source is the largest in ...

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.