Re:Building a Startup: 12 Priceless Tools for Launching Your...
by tansey on Tuesday May 31, 2011 @12:21AM
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Admittedly, I'm not a source control or git expert by any means. However, in a lot of work environments, it is a contest. Your company decides at the outset that they will commit to use a set of technologies for the next project and that's that.
I am personally looking at it from the outskirts as a guy trying to build a startup. When I look around for a library or plug-in I need, I end up on Github. When I look at cloud hosting providers like Heroku and AppHarbor (even though they've since added support for other source control tools), I see support for git.
I'm a machine learning guy, so my goal is to find the tools that minimize my time developing software and maximize my time discovering new AI algorithms. From that perspective, it is a competition: I do not have time nor care to tinker with all the different source control methods. I just want what works, and what works is git.
I am personally looking at it from the outskirts as a guy trying to build a startup. When I look around for a library or plug-in I need, I end up on Github. When I look at cloud hosting providers like Heroku and AppHarbor (even though they've since added support for other source control tools), I see support for git.
I'm a machine learning guy, so my goal is to find the tools that minimize my time developing software and maximize my time discovering new AI algorithms. From that perspective, it is a competition: I do not have time nor care to tinker with all the different source control methods. I just want what works, and what works is git.