Snippet sites first cropped up as a way of sharing code with others in IRC and forums where formatted code with syntax highlighting wasn’t practical. Since then they’ve grown to provide version control, sharing and other features. Here’s a quick list of the major players. Personally – I’d recommend Github. dZone Snippets Part of the [...]
It looks like a new service has entered the project hosting market – Project Locker. Its already crowded with 10 major SVN hosts but this one looks promising. It provides Git, SVN version control and Trac hosting too. The level of integration with other services seems quite impressive too. Their pricing model seems quite reasonable [...]
Personally I’m more a fan of Mercurial with the main reason being: Portability. As far as I know Git still has problems handling Windows which is something Mercurial has never had to worry about. So I can switch between multiple different environments without worrying about my SCM falling down. Another reason is the name and [...]
I posted the other week about how great Git is – It took a while for me to get the point. I’m generally the last to figure this stuff out so forgive me if I’m preaching to the converted. For anyone still unconvinced this video presentation by Linus about Git helped a lot. It was [...]
With all the clammering for free SVN hosting at the moment its easy to forget there are other services available. I wanted to try out Mercurial and Git since they recently became increasingly popular and with Rails switching to Git it just begged to be given a try. Well here’s a few free source hosting [...]
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