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Joel Spolsky has written a 12 point test to assess how seriously your organisation takes the software engineering process.

Joel suggests that ideally you should answer “yes” to all 12 points, and that 10 or less points is a worry.

What are the others in your office working on at the moment?

We get quite a few things from our group meetings:

• At least an outline of what everyone else is working on and how they feel they’re going with it.
• Create a more close-knit group.
• Teach and Learn new skills.
• See the “Big Picture”.

Autotools are the set of GNU tools that configure their source packages for a particular computer system. If you have ever compiled a program using “configure” followed by “make” commands then chances are you have already used the output of Autotools.

This tutorial runs you through the basics of how to use Autotools.

Eric has written on a few topics for software developers; and one that is a good starting point for readers of this site is called “Small ISVs (Independent Software Vendors): You Need Developers, not Programmers”.