This is a rewrite of an earlier talk about source control. What is source control? And why use it? In order to track changes of your code you use source control. In the simplest setup, source control answers what your source code looked like before you accidentally broke but it looked like it was working. In a similar sense you might want to store data about your customers in order to find it again. Who had a sale with customer A? Why use Sourcesafe (or CVS)? If you are a single dev. Why not? Technic[...]

This is a rewrite of an earlier talk about source control. What is source control? And why use it? In order to track changes of your code you use source control. In the simplest setup, source control answers what your source code looked like before you accidentally broke but it looked like it was working. In a similar sense you might want to store data about your customers in order to find it again. Who had a sale with customer A? Why use Sourcesafe (or CVS)? If you are a single dev. Why not? Techni[...]

So, for the N-th time I’m helping out by configuring a build server. This time it was a bit different since we where restoring an old build teamcity server and agent from a crashed server. There where some gothas as usual. In order to restore teamcity we had to do some digging to find the data directory . TeamCity data If you look in the “teamcity-server.log” you can find how the server was started last time. From that we could conclude the old TEAMCITY_DATA_PATH. We took that directory and zip:ed it. [...]

So, for the N-th time I’m helping out by configuring a build server. This time it was a bit different since we where restoring an old build teamcity server and agent from a crashed server. There where some gothas as usual. In order to restore teamcity we had to do some digging to find the data directory . TeamCity data If you look in the “teamcity-server.log” you can find how the server was started last time. From that we could conclude the old TEAMCITY_DATA_PATH. We took that directory and zip:ed it. [...]

It feels very much like the next step after jquery+templates. The nice part is that this enables you to choose your own strategy. For instance only using small amounts of code and regular forms. It requires a lot of decisions about structure decided already in a lot of js mvvm frameworks. These frameworks look like rails for client-side coding. Great for certain types of problems, but requires learning how to use it. Like always, if you can accept the limitations you get a boon. The big problem is that it’[...]