There was a time when all good technical books came from O'Reilly. Now, there's a plethora of publishers out there. Did you start out with a publisher or...
... Steve and I started out separately, trying to write patterns for conferences, particularly the PLoP conferences. Almost everyone at the time that was...
I have made available a book on the use of CVS with Open Source tools for SCM. You can find it at: www.mlc-consultants.co.uk follow the link to CM resources. ...
I thought that some of you might be interested in this.... Also I'll be giving a tutorial based on the SCM patterns at this conference. -steve ... Subject:...
I've seen several more members join over the past couple months. Would those who have joined recently be willing to introduce themselves a little bit and tell...
Hello, My name is Griffin Caprio. I am a lead engineer for a company called ADEXS, based in downtown Chicago. I am also the admin for the .NET Mock Objects...
Hi all, Griffin brings something up that I think Steve and Brad can possibly address. As I talk with folks about SCM Patterns and anti-patterns, I get a lot...
Hi- I've never introduced myself. I am George Schlitz, and I am responsible for change and configuration management in my organization. I became interested in...
... How's this for a metaphor: Clothing. Clothing is made from patterns. These patterns come in multiple sizes to accommodate larger or smaller individuals....
About 5 years ago I wrote a fairly comprehensive paper, as well as some short slides, just for this purpose (explaining 'patterns' to the uninitiated). They...
... Adding to what Brad said... Chapter 3 of the book goes into what patterns are /a bit/. Recently, there was a review of the book on StickyMinds.com where...
... Hi Griffin! ... Sounds interesting! I would like to hear more about it. Does it have any relationship to the PrivateWorkspace pattern? How is it...
... Hi George! Thansk for introducing yourself ... Could you say a bit more about this? What about it has made them second nature. Is it the usage of the...
We use the same set of rules, I believe Microsoft was the major inspiration at the time. It's part of the Open Software Description (OSD) standard draft which...
... nature. Is it the usage of the pattern names (and the concepts+structures the represent) to develop a "shared vocabulary" for communicating about ...
... Is there a URL for the OSD? ... So the iteration number is not part of the build# then? Could you give an example version ID that shows this info? Also,...
Hi All I'm an SCM consultant based in London, UK (though I get around Europe particularly as a German speaker). I've been around SCM a number of years now, and...
Hi all, I am new member of this group..And hope that i can get some suggesition from here. we are using CVS for version control here and now applying SCM to ...
Probably a request better made on gnu.cvs.help, but... ... You can do this using the CVS administrative files....probably most conveniently with the taginfo...
Hi everyone, I'm Anabayar and I work in a reputed MNC based in Bangalore. I have around 5 years of experience in this industry. I have worked in all phases of...
... Very close to the PrivateWorkspace pattern. It originally started at a consulting company I used to work for. Initially, it was a make/C++ "work space" ...
Hi all. My name is Curtis Yanko and I just accepted a job with a fortune 100 company here in Hartford as a Build & Deployment Engineer. I will get to...
... Hi Curt, thanks for the question, and sorry for the delayed reply. I'll say a few things now, but if it is still fuzzy, keep asking! Basically, Active...
This sounds like a job for Ant if you're doing Java development or make or other build tools/scripts in the general case. Question: What are you doing to...
hi, ... Whever a bug finaly resolved that patches is merged in the main line of the development. I am just elabroting the whole process.... After the testing...