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  • GitHub Passes 2m Repositories

    GitHub recently announced they had passed two million git repositories hosted, with 70% being created in the last year alone and an expected 1m users later this year. What else is new at GitHub?

  • Eclipse on GitHub

    First Haskell, and now Eclipse moves to GitHub. Only Git repositories are being mirrored to GitHub, but there's more than 70 repositories already created at the Eclipse Foundation page on GitHub. With EGit 0.11 being released as part of 3.6.2 and aiming for a 1.0 release in Eclipse 3.7, there's more demand than ever to move to Git for Eclipse projects.

  • Haskell moves to Git

    The well-known Haskell implementation GHC is moving from Darcs to a repository on GitHub, citing wider tool support and faster operations.

  • MED-V 2.0 and App-V 4.6 SP1: Two Microsoft Virtualization Solutions for Enterprises

    MED-V 2.0 is a desktop virtualization solution enabling users to run legacy applications on Windows 7. App-V 4.6 SP1 is a service pack for Application Virtualization, another solution for deploying applications within the enterprise.

  • Continuous Check-Ins with Mercurial

    One of the major benefits of a distributed version control systems is that each user gets their own versioned workspace. Leon Bambrick is proposing taking it to an extreme by having every build perform a check-in.

  • IronPython/IronRuby have Decided on Github and CodePlex

    Since Microsoft announced that it was giving up control of its Iron languages, there has been a quiet debate on where to host the project. The negotiations have finally been settled and the winner is Github for source control and CodePlex for issue tracking.

  • Is OSGi the Right Foundation for Java Middleware?

    Ross Mason, founder of MuleSource expressed his frustration with OSGi: "OSGi is a great specification for middleware vendors, but a terrible specification for the end user." He argues that OSGi just isn’t ready for the developer yet as it is too difficult to completely make it invisible to a developer.

  • New Hosting Options for Team Foundation Server

    Changes made to Team Foundation Server 2010 has allowed for new hosting options. These include third-party hosting and a hybrid model where code is synchronized between local and CodePlex servers.

  • Is Good Code Enough for a Project to Be Successful?

    Simon Brown, a developer, architect and author, considers that it takes a lot more than just good code to create a successful project. In his presentation, "Good Code Isn’t Enough", Brown goes through all the elements necessary for a project’s success, from upfront design to operation documentation.

  • Team Foundation Server Backup Tools Released

    After three major versions of Team Foundation Server, Microsoft has finally released a tool for performing backups and restores. This tool, released with the September drop of TFS Power Tools, greatly simplifies the process of backing up the eleven TFS/SharePoint databases.

  • One-way and Bidirectional Synchronization with Team Foundation Server

    Team Foundation Server Integration Tools offers synchronization architecture and adaptors for one-way and bidirectional synchronization with other systems. In addition to development tools, built-in adapters are included for TFS 2008, TFS 2010, ClearCase and ClearQuest. In order to test the capabilities of the tool, an intern is being assigned to attempt a subversion adapter.

  • Collabnet Offers new Agile ALM Cloud options

    Collabnet has released a new version of Teamforge (5.4), the general release of Subversion Edge, and a new Teamforge licensing agreement (TeamForge SCM Licensing option). All were announced at the Agile 2010 conference this week. The stated intent of these new products is to increase the flexibility of organizations seeking to adopt Agile software development methods.

  • Introducing Sun Yiyi’s Git Source Control Provider for Visual Studio 2008/2010

    Many .NET developers have turned to distributed source control systems. The most popular one seems to be Git, which was originally created by Linus Torvalds for Linux kernel development. One problem with Git is that it is predominately command-line based while .NET developers prefer to stay in the IDE. This is why Sun Yiyi’s Git Source Control Provider an important part of Git adoption.

  • REST and versioning

    The problem of how to version services in a REST-based environment is something that comes up time and again. This time Ganesh Prasad offers a proposed solution based not on modifications to the service URL but on the fundamental reason behind versioning in the first place.

  • EGit 0.8 Ready For Helios Release

    The EGit and JGit Eclipse projects released 0.8.1 of their namesake projects earlier this week, in preparation for the Eclipse Helios simultaneous release that is due later this month. The New and Noteworthy for both EGit and JGit have been brought up to date, and a User Guide based on contributions from the Eclipse Wiki. There's also an Introduction to Git for those who haven't used it before.

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