Tag: SVN
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The project wiki – a cost reduction tool
Some readers will be familiar with TED: Ideas Worth Spreading a series of talks on just about everything worthwhile in Technology, Education and Design. I recently revisited Yochai Benklers talk on the new open-source economics from 2005 where he explains how collaborative projects like Wikipedia and Linux represent the next stage of human organisation. The principle discussed is one…
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Version Control on Rails
In my consultancy assignments, I usually work in large organisations that have outsourced IT departments and very formal processes for everything. One aspect of this is version control. In such an organisation every document contains a long table near the beginning with a row for every change, who made the change and when it was…
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Project Services HowTo
Objective Project Services is an integration of software and doman knowledge. Data Management & Warehousing has an approach to building data warehouses. This approach includes a number of templates and white papers including approaches to architecture, governance and documentation. In order to run a project using this approach it is useful to have a change…
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Project Services
Welcome to Project Services In the Data Management & Warehousing White Paper Data Warehouse Governance the importance of change control and issue tracking to a successful data warehousing project are highlighted. This paper also highlights the importance of a lightweight or agile development methodology and how using a wiki can help improve the develpment process. Project Services offers the following: A demonstration…
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Configuration Management & Issue Tracking
One commonly overlooked side of building a data warehouse is the need for configuration management and issue tracking. This article looks at a way to do this. Since this article was written we have upgraded from Bugzilla to Trac and CVS to SVN and integrated in in our Project Services Introduction ETL tool transformations, data…
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