Good god. You've brought back nightmares of what our setup was like 2 or 3 years ago. Someone would run a big query, bring the server down, and it was time for a coffee break while the server rebooted. Or worse. Someone would get confused and overwrite someone else's changes, and shouting matches would ensue.
We eventually switched to having separate JRun instances. Then, 'bad' developer's instances could be restarted without impacting on others. Then we got SeeFusion (If I could name one CF tool worth paying for, this would be it). We could kill just 'bad' requests then. It was nice. It breaks my heart to see technical people have to suffer because management don't get it. It a techie didn't 'get it', their ass would be out on the streets. But I digress... Don't know if proper version control is being taught at formally at unis. I used rather primitive version control, in the form of zipped up directories when at uni. Eventually that got replaced by Eclipse's built in history. When I started work, jumping over to CVS was quite a natural progression. (Although the software, wincvs, was still painful). Now, I'm happily using subversion from within eclipse. To branch and tag with with the sort of convoluted assignments they give at uni would be a bit of overkill. Now, if Aussie unis got students more involved in real software projects, ala Google Summer of Code, that would be a different story. There are a number of 'how to do it right' documents for various version control systems out there, for those who care to look. /Waffle on, Australia. Pat wrote: > I have another take on this subversion issue... > > 1. we use a shared development server instead of each developer > having their own working copy. > > *snip* > > ps. does any1 know of any educational institutions that do ANY kind of > version control courses ? tafe, uni, pvt training compaines ? this > seems like such a critical element of being a commercial developer and > i have never heard of it being taught. everyone seems to just have to > pick it up on the run when they start working - its a little sad. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
