Intland Software

Title of the presentation: Moving from centralized version control system such as Subversion, to Distributed Revision Control such as Mercurial and Git.

Level: beginners

Date and time:  Wednesday, 28th of October 2009, 04:15pm-05:00pm

Room: Madrid

Abstract: Distributed version control tools are the next great thing for open source and for commercial software development. We are in the midst of a paradigm shift in the revision control space. More and more innovative users in the Mobile Communications and other industries are recognizing why Distributed Version Control (DVCS) is useful today and why this will be important in the medium to long term for most software development teams. Learn how can DVCS make your business operations more efficient and more cost effective, how to choose between Subversion, Mercurial and Git, and the current state of the DVCS tool support in Javaforge.com.

Aron Gombas is Director of Engineering at Intland Software. Aron is also an open source enthusiast and a contributor to various renowned projects.

Aron has over 10 years experience as software architect mainly in offshore and remote structures with a focus on wiki, collaboration, J2EE, Java, and open source solutions.