Monday, January 21, 2008
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Yet Another Interview Question

"When you program by yourself do you use source control?"

What I want to hear is that they use source control.  Source control -- even by yourself -- is an important tool that helps you backtrack out of coding tangents that fail.  Hosted on another server it is a valuable form of backup off your own box.  It also shows that the person has programmed in a shop where source control was enforced (rightfully so) and understand how it beneficial it is.

 

Wayne
Monday, January 21, 2008 7:28:36 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [2]  |  Related posts:
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Wednesday, January 23, 2008 8:08:45 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
Wayne, I know you are a VSS kind of guy but you really owe it to yourself to take a look at SourceGear Vault. www.sourcegear.com. Simply a much better replacement to VSS and it is 100% for a single users. Uses a SQL back end and Web Services. All around every aspect is better than VSS.

-Andy
Andrew Robinson
Wednesday, January 23, 2008 5:59:05 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
I'd argue that Subversion is better than both :-)
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