My current and ongoing role involves developing web based application
for internal corporate use. The majority of applications are one-man
end-to-end developments though some may have two or (for the really
big stuff) three people involved. The people that I work with are
good developers but
I am in a similar situation, maybe a rung or two down the evolutionary
ladder. I would consider trying to introduce Jira to manage the projects and
hudson and a CI server. Those are two great tools that can help the team
(developers and managers). I've also found FindBugs to be helpful in keeping
I've been through a few of these sanitizing processes at the different
customers. The key to success is to go slow, introduce each component step
by step, let the people learn to appreciate each of the changes, one at a
time. It could take years to get where you want to be, but it's worth it!
My
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 9:03 PM, Jo Voordeckers jo.voordeck...@gmail.comwrote:
I've been through a few of these sanitizing processes at the different
customers. The key to success is to go slow, introduce each component step
by step, let the people learn to appreciate each of the changes, one
On 23 April 2010 20:12, Viktor Klang viktor.kl...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 9:03 PM, Jo Voordeckers
jo.voordeck...@gmail.comwrote:
I've been through a few of these sanitizing processes at the different
customers. The key to success is to go slow, introduce each component
I also agree that SCM is the smallest of their problems...
The only problem I see with CVS is the non-atomic commits that sometimes
make everyone waste a lot of time cleaning up when, for instance, something
goes wrong with the network during the commit...
It's good to go slow and do one thing at
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 9:50 PM, Kevin Wright kev.lee.wri...@googlemail.com
wrote:
Why SVN? There's like a biillion other SCMs other there that are
better.
True, but that's the least of their problems!
That's exactly what I was thinking, switching from CVS to SVN in Eclipse is
From a personal perspective the first thing I'd fix is replacing XP
with Ubuntu -- the lack of responsiveness and decent CLI tools tends to
drive me crazy (no, Cygwin is not a proper UNIX environment).
But let's think more practical. Number one I would sell is the move from
CVS to SVN. CVS is
