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The US Government's Configuration Management Problems Joe Townsend probes the news and finds several stories detailing the US government's problems with configuration management. According to Joe, the defense industry and government agencies should be able to improve if they follow their own standards and directives. |
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Thousands of Yahoo Mail Users Furious over Redesign Yahoo decided to surprise its email users with a total redesign—and it was a disaster. Thousands of Yahoo Mail users are furious over the changes, and they’re being very vocal about it. Some users are upset about the elimination of key functions, but others are reporting serious technical problems. |
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Helpful Tips for Good Branching and Merging in Product Development Branching and merging are necessary, but they can be minimized to reduce the overhead. In this story, Joe Farah shares several helpful branching and merging tips as well as his simple philosophy of creating a new branch when you need to support the old one. |
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Post-it Teams Up with Evernote to Take Sticky Notes Digital Good news for people who still prefer to jot things down: 3M, the company behind the popular Post-it notes, announced a partnership with personal organization app Evernote to create software that will recognize photos of Post-its taken with a smartphone and let users read, store, and sort notes. |
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Configuration Management in the News It’s normal to not hear about configuration management (CM) during the evening news or read about our profession in your local newspaper. However, that doesn’t mean things are not progressing in our field, as this news roundup will detail. |
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