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January 2007

Last week we were looking at ways in which Microsoft's Visual Studio Team System enables collaborative development. This week, we take a look at an innovative experimental Eclipse plug-in that makes use of the social software phenomenon in collaborative development. Check out "Social Software Development Environments."

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When your development effort becomes a global collaborative one, you need not only the proper methodologies, but the proper tools: tools that support the unique requirements of the task. Microsoft's offering in this arena is Visual Studio Team System. Scott Swigart talks with Microsoft's Eric Lee about the features and philosophy behind VSTS.

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If your development team is distributed around the world, you face some mighty hurdles in coordinating your development efforts. Source code management takes on a whole new level of importance. There are, however, some tried-and-true methods that can tame the beast. Damon Poole points out some of these in "Think Globally, Code Locally."

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In "Bulletproofing C++ Code," Sergei Sokolov gives you a formula for keeping the errors out of your code. It consists of a closed loop that starts and ends with static analysis, but also requires establishing a reliable regression base, and devloping unit and regression tests.

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It's very easy these days to write an Interrupt Service Routine. So easy, in fact, that it's easy to forget that they come at a price. Too many can cause performance bottlenecks—so it's important to optimize. The key is register stacking and unstacking. Check out "Minimizing ISR Overhead" by Nigel Jones for the scoop.

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