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Tips for getting revision control adopted into the workplace.

News and Follow-ups – 01:19

• Godaddy offers free SSL for open source projects
• Google Scores their own SEO

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Webapps – 11:59

• Post Parrot – Print out POST requests
  • We forgot what POST/PUT was so if you want to know check out the HTTP Methods.
  • Firefox HTTP Live Headers
• Fav4 – Simple start page with 4 sites and NO LOGIN

Topic – 20:16

• Mail Bag – Brian Barthold
• Signs no version control system is in place
  • index.html.bak, index.html.old02012007
  • multiple copies of entire directories with dates appended to the folder name
  • hesitation to making code changes
  • Lost work when a coworker overwrites your changes
  • Rules like, only one person can change the “site” submit all your changes to me.
• Things you can do
  • Learn git/hg yourself and use it on as many projects as you can
  • Pick one employee to show the benefits of it and teach them how to use it
  • Use a GUI version of hg/git
    • TortoiseHG
• Get them excited
  • Linus Torvalds google talk on Git
  • Digg.com uses Git
  • Facebook uses Git
  • Mailchimp uses Hg
  • Stackoverflow discussion on reasons NOT to use a version control system, “There are no good reasons not to use version control. Not one.“
• Tutorials / Getting started
  • Hg
    • hg Guide
    • Hg on windows
    • Hg cheat sheet
  • Git
    • Git on windows
    • Git Cheat Sheet by Zack Rusin
  • SVN in Dreamweaver