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On the web side we are working on getting source control. Now, I want to see what can be done for the iSeries side. What is your favorite source control application for iSeries and why? I am looking for low-cost if possible.
The two most common source control packages for the iSeries are Turnover and Aldon. Neither are low cost but integrate well with the iSeries.
I prefer Turnover. It flawlessly handles production installs to both a local and remote iSeries.
Don't forget about MKS Implementer ;)
If you're using the WebSphere Development Studio or Rational from a PC then any source control system that will play nicely with that is an option if you don't want to shell out for the native iSeries one.
We use Aldon for our COBOL, CL, DDS code and it does a really good job. I don't know about the cost of it. There's a plug-in for the WebSphere Development Studio. Just about any source control option could handle archiving/versioning the source code, but Aldon excels at handling the compilation and deployment from dev to QA to production environments. It can keep different library lists for each, for example, and change them dynamically for compiling in different environments. It will even push code to other LPARs, if your dev and prod environments are not on the same LPAR.
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Which is the best Operation System suited for web application development in various platforms like JAVAEE, PHP, Ruby-On-Rails, Perl, Python, if I have missed out anything then that too etc. including testing front end and business logics, version control system like svn/git etc, planning, reporting, life cycle management etc etc? In short, need to cover all aspects for web application engineering.
I have used both Windows and Linux and have felt Linux is better for its great command line capability. I have no idea about development in Mac. My experience in web application development is limited to 3 years and I just need expert opinion.
Linux is great option because of the following:
Software/Tools availability
Relatively easy troubleshooting
Easy to find answers on any question/error code you get
Great package management (Debian/Ubuntu and derivatives)
Friendly community
and many more
About the machine configuration more RAM, more HDD space, better CPU, ... :). In the company I work, every in-house developed piece of software is developed and hosted on Linux. I really can not remember of any issues we've had, except minor hardware related ones.
Linux is always a best bet on development, but of course you'll want available testing platforms with Windows and Macintosh, as well as other Unix bases for testing to make sure that your product functions appropriately under all configurations.
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I am working on my C programming skills. I decided to run Ubunutu Linux and use code::blocks as my IDE. Now, I need a good source control.
Something that's easy for a beginner to administer (I want to concentrate on coding not managing a server)
Free
Hopefully has a plugin that integrates well with code::blocks
I plan to use source control for my own use. I want to be able to undo my changes if I make too many mistakes. I also want to be able to revert back to an old version and do side-by-side comparisons.
Maybe one day, my buddy and I could work on some code together (from different locations), but this is not a major concern at this time.
What works for me?
You want Mercurial or Git. I personally prefer Mercurial.
Subversion is still very popular and stable. It's centralized though, which these days is considered "the old way." (I've heard people say "Git is to SVN what BitTorrent is to FTP.")
Git is pretty much the in thing right now. In my opinion it has a higher learning curve, but its adoption by the open-source community is widespread.
Mercurial is a great DVCS and, in my opinion, doesn't get enough attention. Great commercial products are built on top of it, though, so growing your project to a commercial system is pretty smooth.
There are others.
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What is a good open-source tool for blaming / praising / annotating code (or other text that has a history)?
What I mean is a tool to take code that has a history in source control and show which line came from which revision / version.
I would prefer one that detects lines that were moved, too. And it has to be open source.
Update: I want to view/use its code, not just use the tool itself.
Almost all version control systems include functionality like this (I'd say that versioning systems that don't are broken). If you're using CVS, the comand is cvs annotate; if you're using Subversion, it's svn blame. The right way to do this is going to be specific to your VCS, even if you're using web-based tools like ViewVC or ViewSVN (or github!).
I believe Trac offer a blame (annotate) mode, when used in conjonction with some VCS (like SVN or Mercurial)
For instance, the Mercurial plugin in Trac has support for visual blame annotations:
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Are there any software packages available for hosting Mercurial repositories on my own server, apart from the very basic script that comes with it?
I've looked over the PublishingRepositories wiki page at Mercurial, and the only viable alternative in that list is the hgwebdir script, which I've set up, but it's rather basic.
Does anyone make better website software for Mercurial hosting?
I would install the Kallithea source code management system which is free software. It aims to be a hgweb replacement. It has a lot of features: repository management (creation, deletion, renaming), user management (even LDAP integration) and commit statistics.
There's various ways to publish mercurial repositories as mentioned in the link you provided, but hgwebdir is the only method that supports multiple repos.
with hgwebdir.fcgi, you can use fastcgi and apache or nginx.
This can be useful for publishing multiple repos using web server.
Kiln is an alternative. Unlike RhodeCode it is commercial (i.e. not free) and you have to setup / import any existing mercurial repositories, which can be a bit of work.
It can act as a public repository host since version 2.2.
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How does the IDEA Community Edition compare with Eclipse?
IDEA is a far better IDE than Eclipse (general opinion by people that use IDEA).
On a feature point of view, everything that IDEA CE can also been done by Eclipse. However,
IDEA is a commercial product, which limits its adoption. Thanks to the Community Edition, you can test this IDE for free, in order to develop JavaSE applications (or Scala or Groovy). For an enterprise, this is quite limited, as you will not be able to develop J2EE applications.
My conclusion is that IDEA CE is only a tool that allows you to test and understand the philosophy of this IDE. If you are convinced by IDEA, then you will really have to choose between the Ultimate Edition, which will let develop any kind of applications, or stay with Eclipse.
The best, straight answer to this, is to look at the feature matrix of which features are still left in Ultimate-Edition. Eclipse probably has support for all of these things, although the quality of the integrations can always be an issue.
Why IDEA:
detects unused public fields and methods
easy way to run or debug only one test method (you don't need to modify configuration)
faster code coverage report generation (at least for EMMA)
understand difference between source and test source
easier way to manage libs - just include lib dir (in eclipse you have to specify all jars explicitly), so you don't have to update it manually every time when new jar was included