If you're on Windows and you had problems installing Cygwin, there is another package that includes GCC called "MinGW" (minimalist GNU for Windows). Download and run the MinGW installer.

Go through the installer and keep clicking the defaults. It will then download and install several other packages. When the ...

There are two kinds of great software development tools:

1. Those that do one thing exceptionally well.
2. Those that allow you to communicate better with your coworkers.

In some rare cases, you may find that the same tool lives in both categories.

Some may argue that C is an outdated language to learn in 2009. I disagree. Learning C requires some degree of understanding how computers really work. And if you can understand pointers, you're ten steps ahead of the game.

This is the first in a series of articles designed ...

(Apologies to Stephen R Covey for the title...)

Through some odd coincidence these posts crossed my path recently:

• Check In Early, Check In Often [comments here are especially good]
• Best Practices for Version Control
• 5 SVN Best Practices
• Continuous Integration is an Attitude, Not a Tool

What I got to ...

This is a round-up of continuous integration tools, in no particular order.

• CruiseControl: Open source, Java-based. Focused on build.
• Cruise: Commercial. Build/test/deploy/release. Works for most platforms and languages. Free for small and open source teams.
• CruiseControl.NETOpen source rewrite of the original CruiseControl for Java.
• Hudson ...