Source Code Control II
  I just stumbled across SourceJammer on SourceForge. It's a source code control system written in Java. Does anyone have any experience with it? According to the features page it handles file renames...
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Web Services Satire
  Webservile.com is pretty amusing. From their about page:

...A famous Roman poet once said "It is difficult not to write satire." Working in the software industry, and in particular in the much-hyped Web services space, we feel this way a lot. The smoke-and-mirrors vaporware world of software deserves more parody than it gets, so we thought we'd contribute our voice. We're not really anti-Web services; we believe that they're a meaningful and disruptive technological innovation... [Webservile.com]

Some web services they'd like to see: FindMyPants, GenderVerifier, RevenueGenerator, HypeOverSOAP and EMailOrderBride. Heh.
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Source Code Control
  

...Been doing my technology evangelist / mentor bit at work this week, trying to encourage migration away from sourcesafe onto a half-decent scc system. Not having cross-platform access to our source is hampering us in so many ways. We have no budget, so I've been focussing on ways to make CVS as attractive as possible... [Pushing the envelope]

I can't comment on sourcesafe but we use CVS at work as we also have the "no budget" problem. I suppose CVS could be classed as half-decent but decent would definitely be going too far. My main complaint with CVS is that it doesn't support file renames (!!) without some kind of wacky hacks if you want to preserve the revision history of a renamed file. I find rename support to be essential when refactoring. I'm keeping a close eye on Subversion (still in alpha) which aims to address the shortcomings of CVS. Are there any other free/open source offerings out there that are more usable than CVS?
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