Desktop manufacturing tools like 3-D printers have spawned a new community of amateur makers who'd like to build upon each other's ideas. But, co-creating actual stuff is harder than it sounds. Why?

Development projects require a team of developers all working on the same code at the same time. With this level of collaboration comes the risk of something going ...

Version control systems are a great way to share source code between developers. They provide the ability for multiple people to simultaneously work on the same code base without the danger of sending ...

You could say that the opposite of version control—from the perspective of internal software development—is chaos. If development teams don’t manage various ...