Reply To: Magic and Tech: Initial Development

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@davehawes BitBucket (Atlassian) is an alternative to GitHub (Microsoft).
Same idea, except BitBucket repos are private by default and GitHub was public by default.
Or at least … that’s how it was when I looked at them. I’ve got accounts at both.

I considered it to be a bit too technical to mention (definitely needed someone to explain the core concepts despite having used TFS/VSS), but once you understand how it works Git is such a great version control system.  Microsofts’ Team Foundation Server is also ‘free’ for anyone with the community edition of Visual Studio.
I personally prefer Git, because it allows you to save bits of a file instead of the entire thing.

Sharepoint is indeed a slightly less intimidating option (you do need to activate the version control mechanics I think), but unless you’ve got an MSDN subscription or a professional Office 365 license that’s not free.

It sucks that these things are not available to mere amateurs working from home.
Anyways … that’s off topic.

@royalpain621 I suspect you will be re-ordering the chapters a lot, so don’t worry if your initial versions aren’t perfect.
I do think that your document kind of lacks focus as you appear to be writing lots of things at once.
Wouldn’t it be better to finish one thing (like the timeline) and worry about rules later ?