Finally got my head wrapped around this whole “source control” fad :) Oddly enough I found the command line usage of subversion easier than the two GUI tools you can use with it (tortoisesvn and rapidsvn) maybe that will change if I ever end programming with a team.
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I've been putting in a whole mess of hours for about the last two months, basically ever since I cut the corporate umbilical cord and went solo. I figured working 60-80 hour weeks should be the norm and even a good indicator that I'm doing well.
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I've been tasked with providing an ecommerce framework for a customer. Part of the deal was that I keep the source code to reuse, resell, whatever. I'd like to get something built akin to the application blocks put out by MS and release it under some form of BSD type license for anybody to use.
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For those of you looking for a way to track feature requests, bugs, tasks, and time lines to a lesser extent, and you don't want to spend an arm and a leg look no further than Gemini from Countersoft.
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Notes on some of architecture/development practices (database and otherwise) of some truly large scale applications. Interesting and quick read.
http://weblogs.cs.cornell.edu/AllThingsDistributed/archives/000280.html
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Well, my daliance with corporate job independence is coming to a close. My boss had agreed to let me work only part time since I am developing my contracting/consulting biz. He is getting pressure to either have me available all the time or get somebody who is, so I was given a choice.
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