OSNews posts a link to an O’Reilly draft chapter on Version Control with Subversion: Basic Concepts.
“This chapter is a short, casual introduction to Subversion…” This
chapter is great explanation of the difference between different models
of source control.
Joel Spolsky’s “How Microsoft Lost the API Wars” (linked below, too) ties in really well with Calvin Hsia’s post on “Solving a customer problem”
- to steal Calvin’s punchline, the Microsoft XP security push breaks
the backward compatibility of COM within Microsoft’s own Visual FoxPro
software. Calvin’s pragmatic troubleshooting stories and tangents into
Win98 and pianos are fun reading, [...]
