Software Engineering and Data Science
Subversion is the defacto open source source version control system these days and a great improvement over cvs. It’s also a steal at the ripe price of free.
Great (and also free) documentation is available here: Version Control with Subversion.
You can also buy the hardcopy from Amazon.
Lifehacker has a nice list of helpful web applications and some suggestions for managing your distributed workplace.
Check out: Geek to Live: Essential tools for the placeless office
I’m employing a lot of these tactics but there are definitely a few new gems in there that I will undoubtedly give a try! My favorite is having everyone subscribe to a shared del.icio.us rss feed. Great idea.
Red5 is an Open Source Flash Server written in Java. Here’s a collection of links into the Red5 site:
Main:
osflash.org/red5
Download:
www.osflash.org/red5/red5downloads
There’s a great article over at the server side about Spring as the new Java EE.
I favored Spring and Hibernate over the more widely sanctioned Struts and EJB combo a long time ago. It’s always nice to see I’m not the only one embracing change and the article covers nicely similar transitions in the Java conference space.
I let OS X handle downloading and installing the latest JDK via System Preferences -> Software Update. Some Java software require that JAVA_HOME be explicitly set, so where should it point?