Posted
7 days
ago
by
nob...@example.com (Dana Nourie)
At CollabNet we have been discussing the differences and similarities
between the Open Source community, and the Enterprise community. We want
to be sensitive to that fine line between information awareness and
marketing, without falling
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to one side or the other. Some people at
CollabNet are hesitant to point to anything that costs money to the Open
Source community for fear of offending, yet much of the content could
indeed be very useful in shortening that learning curve.
As someone who is also helping to maintain the CollabNet site, and as
Community Manager, I needed to learn what I needed to know as quickly as
possible. I am not only learning to use Subversion, but I’m also learning
to use the collaborative tools provided by TeamForge.You can see the
tools of CEE if you look at any project on openCollabNet. We will be
upgrading the site to TeamForge in the future.
Yes, we eat our own dog food, so to speak, and I’m glad. I have been
impressed with the functionality and the ease of use of this platform
compared to others I have used. To shorten my learning curve I have found
some great training through articles, white papers, webinars, and web
courses.
It is my hope that the resources I list below help to shorten your
learning curve, no matter whether you want to stick with only the free
materials or the ones that we charge for.
For those of you who are Subversion experts, you can stop reading here,
though I value your opinion and experience and would appreciate any
comments or suggestions you’d like to make. Also, some of you may not be
aware of the variety collaboration tools that TeamForge provides.
Newsletters
Many bypass this option when registering for CollabNet, but the
newsletter can point to useful information about learning Subversion, as
well as other content you might not want to miss. You can subscribe by
clicking on your user name at the top of the CollabNet site. Once in your
profile, scroll down and click the Newsletter box. Or you can read the
archived newsletters.
Webinars
Webinars are a great way of seeing software in action, and hearing
information about the tools. Be sure to be logged into the site so you
don't need to fill in any forms.
* What's New in Subversion 1.6
* Subversion Best Practices
* CollabNet TeamForge The Power of Centralization
Discussion Forums
Discussion forums are an excellent place to ask questions that fellow
developers and users can answer. Be sure to return the favor by answering
the questions when you can provide solutions based on your own
experience. You'll need to be logged in to participate.
* Subversion for Admins
* Subversion End Users & Developers
Release Notes, Data Sheets, and Articles
We also have some good notes, data sheets, and articles. Be sure you are
logged in so you needn't fill out contact information.
* Subversion 1.6
* Browsing a Subversion or CVS Repository
* CollabNet Subversion Datasheet
* CollabNet Training for Subversion
Training Courses
CollabNet offers a complete, role-based training curriculum across the
entire CollabNet product line. Courses are delivered in a number of
formats to best meet your education needs.
Subversion 1.5 - Individual Modules:
* Subversion 1.5 for Developers - Section 01 - Introduction to
Version Control (10 min) - $28
* Subversion 1.5 for Developers - Section 02 - Introducing Subversion
(19 min) - $28
* Subversion 1.5 for Developers - Section 03 - Global Revisioning and
Working Copies (21 min) - $38
* Subversion 1.5 for Developers - Section 04 - Standard Work Cycle
(33 min) - $38
* See More . . .
Instructor Led Courses
* Subversion 1.6 for Developers - Standard
* Subversion 1.6 for Developers - Enterprise
* Subversion 1.6 for the 1.x Developer
* Subversion 1.6 for Administrators
* See More . . .
FAQs
FAQs are probably one of the best free resources you can read for
learning about Subversion.
* Subversion Client FAQ
* Subversion Server FAQ
* Subversion Migration FAQ
As I discover more resources for learning Subversion and TeamForge, I
will write new blogs, and add to the newsletter as I discover.
Enjoy your Subversion learning path! [Less]
Posted
7 days
ago
by
Dana Nourie
Posted
12 days
ago
by
Mark Phippard
Posted
12 days
ago
by
nob...@example.com (Mark Phippard)
I added a post on my personal blog yesterday about support for Subversion
being available for the just released Eclipse 3.5/Galileo release. Today
I am going to show just how easy it is to install support for Subversion
in Eclipse
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3.5.
While I think that installing plugins in Eclipse is generally a pretty
easy process, my views on this are colored by the fact that I have been
doing it since before Eclipse 1.0 came out. That said, the Eclipse Mylyn
team has made the process super-easy in the Eclipse 3.5 release.
I started by downloading one of the Eclipse packages from the download
site. I chose the Eclipse IDE for Java Developers, just make sure you get
one of the options that includes Mylyn.
After unzipping the bundle and starting Eclipse, look for the Mylyn Task
List view and click on the New Task button as shown here:
Select New Task
This brings up the following Mylyn wizard. Note the new option to install
more connectors:
Select New Task
After clicking the "Install More Connectors" button you are presented
with a list of connectors that Mylyn can install. In the list of
connectors that has been certified by Tasktop, you will see the CollabNet
Desktop for SVN. The CollabNet Mylyn connectors, including Subclipse and
our graphical merge client, have been certified by the team at Tasktop.
That means that these plugins play well with others and can be properly
integrated into a number of Eclipse-based IDE's. Subclipse is the only
Subversion plugin to have been certified by Tasktop.
Select New Task
I checked the box for the CollabNet Desktop for SVN and click Finish.
Three clicks, and I have started the process for installing Subversion
support into Eclipse, it does not get much easier than that!
At this point, the rest is handled by the install magic from the Mylyn
team. They run through the Eclipse install mechanism to verify and
install your selections. I was doing this just after the launch of
Eclipse 3.5 and I am sure the mirrors were getting hammered. Whatever the
process does initially to validate the dependencies to verify the install
took a few minutes, but eventually the following dialogs came up and it
is just a matter of clicking through the wizard to complete the install.
For completeness, here are those dialogs:
Confirm Selection
Confirm your selections and click Next:
Verify Components
I expanded the selection, so that you can see all of the components that
will be installed. You get the CollabNet Desktop, which allows you to
connect to any CollabNet hosted site. Subclipse, and its required
components. The Subversion revision graph feature that I have blogged
about previously, and the CollabNet Merge client, which makes merging
easy and powerful from the Eclipse environment.
Accept License
Accept the licenses. All of these products are free and open-source,
licensed under the EPL.
Restart Eclipse
And finally, just click Yes to restart Eclipse. That is it, not only do
you have a working Subversion client in Eclipse, you have one with all of
the bells and whistles as well as one that has been certified by Tasktop.
One Caveat!
The above install was done on Windows Vista 32-bit. If you are running on
another operating system, you must have the Subversion 1.6.x native
libraries, including the JavaHL library available. CollabNet provides an
installer for OSX that includes this library, as well as a Linux client
RPM that should work on any Linux distro. Windows 64-bit users can
install the SlikSVN package. All of this information and more is
available in this FAQ about JavaHL. [Less]
Posted
12 days
ago
by
nob...@example.com (Mark Phippard)
I added a post on my personal blog yesterday about support for Subversion
being available for the just released Eclipse 3.5/Galileo release. Today
I am going to show just how easy it is to install support for Subversion
in Eclipse
... [More]
3.5.
While I think that installing plugins in Eclipse is generally a pretty
easy process, my views on this are colored by the fact that I have been
doing it since before Eclipse 1.0 came out. That said, the Eclipse Mylyn
team has made the process super-easy in the Eclipse 3.5 release.
I started by downloading one of the Eclipse packages from the download
site. I chose the Eclipse IDE for Java Developers, just make sure you get
one of the options that includes Mylyn.
After unzipping the bundle and starting Eclipse, look for the Mylyn Task
List view and click on the New Task button as shown here:
Select New Task
This brings up the following Mylyn wizard. Note the new option to install
more connectors:
Select New Task
After clicking the "Install More Connectors" button you are presented
with a list of connectors that Mylyn can install. In the list of
connectors that has been certified by Tasktop, you will see the CollabNet
Desktop for SVN. The CollabNet Mylyn connectors, including Subclipse and
our graphical merge client, have been certified by the team at Tasktop.
That means that these plugins play well with others and can be properly
integrated into a number of Eclipse-based IDE's. Subclipse is the only
Subversion plugin to have been certified by Tasktop.
Select New Task
I checked the box for the CollabNet Desktop for SVN and click Finish.
Three clicks, and I have started the process for installing Subversion
support into Eclipse, it does not get much easier than that!
At this point, the rest is handled by the install magic from the Mylyn
team. They run through the Eclipse install mechanism to verify and
install your selections. I was doing this just after the launch of
Eclipse 3.5 and I am sure the mirrors were getting hammered. Whatever the
process does initially to validate the dependencies to verify the install
took a few minutes, but eventually the following dialogs came up and it
is just a matter of clicking through the wizard to complete the install.
For completeness, here are those dialogs:
Confirm Selection
Confirm your selections and click Next:
Verify Components
I expanded the selection, so that you can see all of the components that
will be installed. You get the CollabNet Desktop, which allows you to
connect to any CollabNet hosted site. Subclipse, and its required
components. The Subversion revision graph feature that I have blogged
about previously, and the CollabNet Merge client, which makes merging
easy and powerful from the Eclipse environment.
Accept License
Accept the licenses. All of these products are free and open-source,
licensed under the EPL.
Restart Eclipse
And finally, just click Yes to restart Eclipse. That is it, not only do
you have a working Subversion client in Eclipse, you have one with all of
the bells and whistles as well as one that has been certified by Tasktop.
One Caveat!
The above install was done on Windows Vista 32-bit. If you are running on
another operating system, you must have the Subversion 1.6.x native
libraries, including the JavaHL library available. CollabNet provides an
installer for OSX that includes this library, as well as a Linux client
RPM that should work on any Linux distro. Windows 64-bit users can
install the SlikSVN package. All of this information and more is
available in this FAQ about JavaHL. [Less]
