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It's amazing that the CEO is making uninformed decisions that are bound to adversely impact developer productivity. With all due respect, he/she needs to get their head out of their posterior and focus on growing the business, not micromanaging in areas where they (obviously) have very little knowledge.
/ravi
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I know. We were a small company, part of a larger group. He used to make all the calls. Now that we've grown, he has to share decisions with me (development management) and another girl (commercial/sales management), but still has the habit of nosing around things he shouldn't. The sales girl has it more difficult than I, as I usually get it my way (except on this and a couple of other things), but still...
The worst part is that, as he claims it, he used to be a software developer back in the 90s.
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I hear you.
The reluctance to delegate operational control is a common problem, especially with founders of small businesses. It takes maturity, confidence and a certain amount of courage to relinquish control to others. But the consequences of not doing this can be dire. I've seen well-intentioned (and smart) business owners almost bring their enterprise to a halt due to lack of confidence (unfounded, IMHO) in their managers.
/ravi
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Would he know if you switch to something else?
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Hehe probably yes. Maybe not now, but one day for certain...
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Hopefully none of your customers understand development - that kind of solution may make them run a mile.
"We're using Sharepoint internally for source control"
"Ha, ha, ha... I think we'll look elsewhere as you evidently don't understand when Sharepoint is the best solution to a problem"
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I did use PVCS, but way back in the mid 90's. It was mostly a command line interface back then.
Soren Madsen
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Oh yes. I used it. I still wake up screaming.
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No one else is coding, so I just dump everything into a winzip archive
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Even when i do the coding all alone i tend to use git, this enables me to easily look back of what mistakes I made in the past (and repeat them )
Cogito ergo sum
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Nothing like repeating the same errors. Gotta love that.
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I too did this for years (at home) until I discovered how easy it was to set up VisualSVN[^] and the AnkhSVN[^] VS plugin (both free). Trust me, you'll never go back!
/ravi
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Agreed, have used AnkhSVN for years and it's a very good product.
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Yeah, I used all that stuff too in my last job. I found it hard to use and cumbersome and makes VS run slower.
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I did that in the late 1990s however when my projects became more complex I moved to CVS then to SVN.
John
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ed welch wrote: I just dump everything into a winzip archive
I just memorize everything...
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I work with SVN, Git, TFS, and SourceSafe.
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I use mostly subversion however public code is on github.
John
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It was when I clicked on it ... so it must have been fixed. Just retry.
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Er... maybe they fixed it but I just managed to tick SVN and GIT.
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Yes, it wasn't originally a multiple choice, but it is now
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I don't use source code control.
I'm bad
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Really, I even use it on personal projects nowadays. Unless you're the mythical infallible programmer, it always pays to be able to backtrack.
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