syllabi could learn a trick or two from GitHub. GitHub is a repository for open source code that supports version control . . . . What this means in plain terms is that developers can share code using ...

An fortunate reality of GitHub and similar sites is that projects that are abandoned by the maintainer are often continued by someone else who forked the project. Unfortunately, the ease of forking ...

The growing use of distributed version-control systems can't be ignored in your enterprise; plan ahead to keep your developers happy in 2011 Forking is often viewed as a last resort for software ...