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		<title>What is your Continuous Integration (CI) strategy? If you don’t have one, you should!</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Your development teams are busy building your next product releases. You follow an “Agile” methodology for your software development process, and have feedback loops throughout your processes to...<br/>
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		<title>Distributed Collocation.. an Oxymoron?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2012 15:09:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>clucca</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[In preparation for Agile 2012 in a few weeks, I&#8217;ve decided to talk about collocation. If you watch as many webinars as I do, you’ll notice that many Agilists encourage teams to become...<br/>
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		<title>AccuRev Announces New President and CEO Peter Shields</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2012 12:58:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AccuRev</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[AccuRev, Inc. today announced the appointment of Peter Shields as AccuRev’s President and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Shields, whose position is effective immediately, has spent over 30 years in the...<br/>
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		<title>Ripping out the Plumbing: Why Thinking about Replacing your SCM Tool Could be a Good Idea</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 14:24:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anavickas</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://accurev.com/blog/?p=3083</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[In many ways, software configuration management (SCM) is very similar to a plumbing system. It was probably there when you bought your house, or joined your company. It becomes out-dated and...<br/>
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		<title>What’s the Big Deal with DVCS?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 14:13:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>clucca</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Over the past five years or so, a new class of SCM tools have been becoming more and more popular. Distributed version control systems (DVCS) don’t rely on central servers to store all the versions...<br/>
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		<title>Do You Really Know what Continuous Integration is All About?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 15:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>clucca</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[When I ask people what Continuous Integration (CI) is, I generally get a lot of different answers. Popular ones include: &#8220;Running builds all the time!&#8221; &#8220;Binaries on demand for...<br/>
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		<title>The Changing Landscape of SCM</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 14:19:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brad hart</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[It’s 1998. I’m just starting my job at Rational Software, supporting ClearCase. During my training and through my first few months handling customer issues, I developed a deep understanding of the...<br/>
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		<title>General Availability for Industry’s First Seamless Integration of Enterprise-Level Security and Visualization into Git</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 17:44:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AccuRev</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[AccuRev released for general availability today the first Git integration that seamlessly bridges the world of commercial tools and open source software configuration management. &#160;...<br/>
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		<title>Avoiding Merge Hell</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 14:15:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>clucca</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[As you start to scale a software development process it becomes apparent that code and user stories have to be merged more frequently. Sometimes changes may flow from one organization to another....<br/>
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		<title>Why Create Branches?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:45:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>clucca</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Branching and merging is one of the most critical things a development team must work on over the course of a software release cycle. But there’s a funny thing about branching and merging &#8211;...<br/>
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