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I'm a software engineer.
I like to write code slowly but with agility and to test new tools.
This website was crafted with the assistance of Pelican and Hyde.
FeatureBranch by Martin Fowler, 2009.
With the rise of Distributed Version Control Systems (DVCS) such as git and Mercurial, I‘ve seen more conversations about strategies for branching and merging and how they fit in with Continuous Integration (CI). There’s a bit of confusion here …
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A Successful Git Branching Model by Vincent Driessen, 2010.
In this post I present the development model that I’ve introduced for all of my projects (both at work and private) about a year ago, and which has turned out to be very successful. I …
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The Cost of Going it Alone by Dave Neary, 2011.
When working with community software, which costs more, working a private branch, based off a stable version, or developing the features upstream? Many companies choose to take stable software and adapt it to their needs, rather than building …
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