[ale] [SEMI-OT] Skills for programmers/engineers?

[Michael Potter]

"The best advice I've ever gotten about coding was to never have any
function/method
longer than 1 screen"

+5


On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 7:43 PM, Chris Fowler
<cfowler at outpostsentinel.com>wrote:

>  On 01/27/2014 06:38 PM, JD wrote:
>
> Forget the languages. What "tools" do are used?  Languages come and go, but
> having a thorough understanding of CVS or git is timeless.
>
>  We used CVS for many years and then moved to SVN.
>
> SVN causes me some real headache with timestamps since I'm building a
> whole system.  I store all file timestamps in a SQLite3 database and then
> set them after a check out.  Otherwise we get many instances of configures
> executing to create Makefiles.
>
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Michael Potter
  Tapp Solutions, LLC
  Replatform Technologies, LLC
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