The holiday season may be upon us, but we've still got plenty of exciting things going on! This month, we bring you news of our updated Forrester whitepaper, exploring the Total Economic Impact of Subversion MultiSite on a Global Fortune 500 company, as well as free Subversion training webinars, informative blog posts, and interviews from the Subversion developer community. We've also been having great fun in the office taking part in Movember, growing mustaches to support male focused charities like the Prostate Cancer Charity and the Institute of Cancer Research. We hope you had a great Thanksgiving holiday.
Subversion MultiSite - The software that pays you to have it installed
In 2009, Forrester produced a whitepaper on Subversion MultiSite, and reported that a Global Fortune 500, US-based manufacturer of electronic components, saw a 167% ROI after deploying Subversion MultiSite. Since the report was first published, WANdisco has switched to a subscription pricing model; we’ve now updated the whitepaper with our latest pricing - and are happy to report that the same company has now seen a 380% ROI over the last three years! The payback period has also fallen, from 11 months to 4 months. Take a glance at our 1 page summary of the report to get the key facts, or download the full report from the same page, to find out exactly how Subversion MultiSite has impacted the company.
WANdisco Blog: Best Practices and Hook Scripts
We’ve added plenty of content to the blog this month! We have features on best practices for avoiding merge hell in Subversion; an introduction to unlocking the power of Subversion hook scripts on Windows. We're constantly updating the blog with tips and tricks about Subversion. As always, if you have any questions or suggestions on the kind of content featured on the blog then please get in touch.
More Free Subversion Training
WANdisco’s Director of Training Mike Lester, addressed the common concerns of project leaders and managers in the latest installment of our free webinar series. ‘Managing Subversion Projects’ covered best practices for managing projects with Subversion, and shared advice on coordinating team activities, getting the most out of developers, and improving software deliveries. Keep a look out for the replays on our website. Coming up in the next few weeks, are free webinars on the Subversion Lock command and ‘uberSVN Extensibility,’ which will demonstrate how to extend Subversion into a complete ALM solution! Places are limited, so register now to avoid missing out!
Movember
Welcome to Movember – the month formerly known as November! It’s a month long celebration of the Mustache. WANdisco have formed team MANdisco. We’re being sponsored to grow Mustaches to support male focused charities like the Prostate Cancer Charity and the Institute of Cancer Research. Be sure to look out for our follow up blog at the beginning of next month where the men will be revealing all their hard work to the world.
Meet Team WANdisco
Katherine Sheehan is our Automated Test Engineer at WANdisco. She builds the tests that our QA team run on Subversion Multisite and uberSVN. Katherine works in the Sheffield office and was born here in the UK, but she spent her childhood in Manitoba Canada (apparently the coldest place on Earth!) and Okalahoma USA. When she isn’t building QA tests for WANdisco she enjoys running and cooking (which she admits don’t go together). Her talents don’t just lie in software – Katherine is an awesome singer, songwriter and dancer.
Who's using uberSVN? 5 Questions
We speak to uberSVN user Rob, to find out how he's using uberSVN, and whether he has any tips for the uberSVN community.
I'm a ColdFusion developer, I've been at it for over fifteen years. I'm also a huge fan of jQuery, and really, technology in general. I'm a big proponent of MVC/OO frameworks, and I go out of my way to write good code. For the past three years, I've been living full time in an RV. I move around to where the work is, it's the best way to stay employed. I've lived in San Jose for a couple of years, where I worked for eBay and Adobe. On top of that, I've been developing some specialized software for this new business that will dramatically reduce the amount of time required to match properties with buyers.
What revision control did you previously employ?
My first introduction to version control was with Source Safe many years ago. From there, I moved to SVN and was confused for a while until I figured it out. For one project, I used the "free" single project account at Codesion. I was on the verge of upgrading that account when, one day, I was minding my own business and reading my Twitter feed, when I saw a posting about "uberSVN" from Wandisco. I hit paydirt! I downloaded their free SVN server and installed it on my Windows server and had it running in under ten minutes. I now have eight or nine repositories running on it, and I back them up via Carbonite.
What do you use uberSVN for?
I currently have several clients, each one with multiple projects. One of them already uses SVN at another location, but the other does not. Since I work from multiple computers, SVN makes it much simpler to keep my code centralized.
Do you have a tip for uberSVN users?
The only tip right now is, if you're on the fence, just DO it! It's super simple to setup and administer. A few years ago, I spent three days configuring SVN on a Linux machine and hooking it to Apache. That was a giant PITA. uberSVN was up and running in ten minutes. No joke.
What would you like to see in future releases of uberSVN?
Integration with bug trackers like Bugzilla.
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