As developers, we tend to think of a software version as something represented by some metadata maintained in our version control system. This (mis)conception is responsible for a lot of grief for our ...

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Holy cow, when did it get so hard to make sense of software version numbers? If you use Google’s Chrome Web browser, you’re probably using version 12 right now. If you’ve configured it for the ...

In theory, software version numbers should be about as scintillating as as serial numbers, house numbers, channel numbers, or Vehicle Identification Numbers. You don’t get much more mundane than the ...

Learn about the many benefits of versioning in a software development environment and why developers need software versions. However your organization distributes its software products and/or services ...

Learn what versioning means in a software development environment, including use cases, examples, and best practices. Go ahead and open an instance of your favorite software and select Help -> About ...

Perforce Software has put out a new version of Perforce Visual Client, its cross-platform graphical interface for the company’s software configuration management offering. Perforce makes software ...

Programmers use various methods to determine when the trial period of software has elapsed. In earlier times, something as basic as checking the system date was done. But over a period of time, ...