AccuRev Communications

The secret’s out – AccuRev is releasing a seamless security and compliance related solution for the Git community called Kando on January 31st. To get a first look at Kando, register here for the webinar on 1/31/2012, at 1:00 PM EST. You might be asking yourself, “Why in the world would a company focused on providing software development tools to enterprise organizations with mission-critical software development environments produce a solution for an open source version control tool?” I’ll tell you! Git is increasing in popularity among developers working in small groups or collaborating on open source projects. It’s fast, flexible, and full of developer-friendly features. Git is a great tool for these smaller and more social types of development projects, and based on discussions about Git with customers, prospects, and analysts, it’s clear that there are more cas... (more)

Buying Software Tools is like Buying New Sneakers for Your Development Team

SCM tools have a profound effect on the day to day life of a developer. These types of systems have either helped or hindered development teams deliver software. SCM systems are like the “hub” of a development team. It’s where teams artifact important work, integrate changes, save important ideas and add features for customers. It’s the center of our development universe! It’s all about the developers. They need to be free to innovate and get changes out the door quickly. But they can’t if they are stifled by tools that get in the way. Tools need to be able to ENHANCE the softwa... (more)

Three Surprises in Software Development in 2012

‘Tis the season to make unsupportable predictions for the future.  Despite my prior record (and I remain surprised that we don’t yet have personal jet packs) I’d still like to share a long-range weather forecast for the software industry. You’ve been warned.  From here on, you’re on your own. Prediction 1: Everyone Will Claim They Are Agile And 50% of them will be wrong, just based on the Nokia test.  And of the rest, half won’t get any value from it. There are a lot, and here I really need to underline a lot, of bad development practices out there.  For every organization that i... (more)

Version Control Software Can Help Ensure Success and Sanity

Back in the day when software development was more linear and proceeded at a more predictable pace with longer project timelines, version control wasn’t much of an issue. In most cases it wasn’t too hard to keep track of code changes, feature developments, and configuration files. If a developer – or even a team – created several different versions, multiple copies could be kept and, with some careful labeling and archiving, any version could be recreated or referred to later on. But all that changed with the coming of Agile processes and the evolution of the multiple developmen... (more)

Distributed Version Control: Balancing Flexibility and Scalability

You’re starting to hear more and more about distributed version control as some developers implement a new, decentralized version of distributed version control that enables developers to host a complete copy of the repository on their own computers without the need to be connected via a common network. While this may be OK for smaller projects, there are some inherent risks for enterprise-wide large development projects. In fact, many large companies are loathe to allow their “crown jewels” – their source code – to be copied wholesale across a variety of developers’ machines. Ent... (more)