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This being the last Thursday before Christmas, it’s time to slack off a little. So I’m writing about a program that does pretty diagrams of “mind maps” that you can play with on your last day at work. It’ll be fun and might even be productive.

This tutorial aims to teach you how to use the CVSTrac and Trac tools. I assume an administrator has already set one or both of them up for you and that you just need to get comfortable with the tools themselves. The tutorial should also be useful for people trying to decide whether to use one of these systems, but I do not cover how to set them up or administrate them.

In this tutorial I teach the basics of two configuration management / revision control systems: CVS and Subversion

Configuration Management is the responsible archival of each change made to a (typically software) project. This article discusses what they do, why they’re important and where to find one.

Working in a group, people’s preferred styles come into conflict. Then it helps to be conscious of the purpose of styles so you can stick to what’s important rather than personal preference.