Even as a single developer, source control is a must.
"This e-mail is from Reed Exhibitions (Gateway House, 28 The Quadrant, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 1DN, United Kingdom), a division of Reed Business, Registered in England, Number 678540. It contains information which is confidential and may also be privileged. It is for the exclusive use of the intended recipient(s). If you are not the intended recipient(s) please note that any form of distribution, copying or use of this communication or the information in it is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error please return it to the sender or call our switchboard on +44 (0) 20 89107910. The opinions expressed within this communication are not necessarily those expressed by Reed Exhibitions." Visit our website at http://www.reedexpo.com -----Original Message----- From: Rick Faircloth To: CF-Talk Sent: Mon May 07 19:09:11 2007 Subject: RE: Adobe CS3 Web Edition leaves me wanting, moving to Eclipse! W AS (RE: Frameworks) The question I have on this topic is would I, as an individual developer, benefit from source control, or is this something only teams of developers need to worry about. I can see versioning being useful... being able to "roll back" to a previous version of a site would be helpful. But I can always save a particular state of a site into a different folder as a version... very simple. So, does any of this source control talk apply to me? Rick -----Original Message----- From: Doug Bezona [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 1:04 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Adobe CS3 Web Edition leaves me wanting, moving to Eclipse! W AS (RE: Frameworks) > Now, I'm looking into better source control for me and my other web > developer. I'm a PC. He's a Mac. Sounds like CFE is perfect for that. > However, CFE needs to be pretty good since he prefers quick little HTML > editors and doesn't quite have the mindset of source/versioning. You need to separate the issue of which IDE you use (Eclipse, Dreamweaver, etc.) from the issue of source control. Source control is, in my opinion, the far more important decision, and the most pressing concern you should have. An IDE can give you a lot of conveniences, but a proper source control system, diligently used, can save your bacon regardless of the number of developers. You can implement a system without changing the IDE you use - though you will likely may find a particular IDE makes using a particular source control system more convenient. I highly recommend reading this: http://www.ericsink.com/scm/source_control.html It's a great overview of what source control systems do, and how to work with them. It doesn't focus too much on any particular software, it's intended a general guide. Now, I'm ready to get back into that level of support which DW currently > doesn't support, natively, as well as CFE (or so I have heard). Eclipse definitely has much better options available for source control integration. However, here are the caveats. We run Windows 2003/IIS and > SQL2000/2005. I don't want to install MySQL. I don't want to install > Linux. Neither should be necessary. For the two major open source systems, Subversion and CVS, they do technically have a database of sorts under the hood, but it's pretty much self-contained, meaning you don't deal with it directly. And both will run on Windows. So, I want a source/versioning solution that will run on Windows and SQL > yet let a Mac connect to it as well. I would also prefer the solution > to be open source/free since I won't be able to get financing for this. You are probably looking at Subversion or CVS. Subversion is generally considered the "best" option - basically a new and improved CVS. It's widely used, and there are a lot of options for connecting to it from various IDE's, OS's, etc. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Deploy Web Applications Quickly across the enterprise with ColdFusion MX7 & Flex 2 Free Trial http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:277180 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
