April 16, 2011

Inspectify

I’ve been working on a new project for a while – code review for teams.

The idea is that teams of developers want/need a simple way to ensure that their code gets reviewed by other people in their team (without having someone looking over your shoulder).  I think enough other people have talked about why we need code review (see below), but there hasn’t been a suitable, easy platform for doing it.

There are a few hosted code review apps, but hopefully for commercial apps you have a policy to keep source-code in-house.  So we need an installable code review app, that automatically fetches commits from a repository, and provides a simple interface to do simple code review.

Inspectify is my answer to this problem.  It’s still a wee way off, but when it’s ready, you’ll be able to install it on a basic *nix box and start reviewing your Subversion-based code (support for other SCM’s may come later).

November 8, 2009

Mac subversion apps – Cornerstone vs Versions

Cornerstone vs Versions

Cornerstone vs Versions

I dont know how long Cornerstone has been around (actually, according to their blog it looks like the first version came out around May 2008), but i only learned about them last week (an ad in Tweetie), and immediately downloaded it.  I spend all day every day working with code stored in different Subversion repositories.  Up until now, I have been using Versions as my Subversion app of choice, and its been great.  There are a few annoying issues with Versions, and i’ve been surprised at how long they take between releases, but it was the first Subversion app for the Mac that was actually worth using.

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November 7, 2009

Why version control is important for solo developers

“It’s common practice for any software project with multiple coders to use some version control mechanism. CVS or Subversion used to be popular. These days distributed systems like git and Mercurial are the quickly replacing the old standards. But what about the cases when you’re the only coder?”

by Fraser Hess via cimgf.com

Have a look at Storehouse – Easy Version Control.

June 17, 2009

Subversion 1.6 quick reference card

Collabnet have produced a pdf quick reference card for Subversion 1.6.  If you’re wanting to get started with Subversion, get a free Subversion account at Storehouse.