[dba-VS] [AccessD] Visual Studio and source control

[Arthur Fuller]

Yeah well you've got all your fany hardware, but some of us are
impoverished have only three computers, including the tablet. It all adds
up to a couple of gigs. Poor me ☺

On Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 8:27 PM, Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote:

> As for the Cloud there are some things that just can not be done any other
> way.
>
> Huge files and incredible high processing speed come to mind.
>
> One article, that discussed this comes to mind. In the old days a movie
> would easily fit on one of two rolls of "Nitrocellulose"...yes, it is as
> explosive as it sounds. Today that technology is all but gone. Movies are
> now digitized, are super high resolution, up to 64 frames a second but they
> take up a lot of drive space...and the media must be absolutely
> perfect...no data drops, not even a single pixel. Where else would anyone
> store the complete movie like "Gravity", that is 26 Pentabytes?
>
> Then the new super computers. They use to be something like a single Cray
> but today a Cloud farm of thousands of interconnected CPUs running as a
> single computer, running at over 33.86 petaFLOPS (per second).
>
> There is nothing that the Cloud couldn't do when it comes to bigger,
> faster and more reliable.
>
> This technology is not just limited to big players at extraordinary costs.
> The prices are continuing coming down, if someone wants to go commercial
> and any enthusiast (Geek) can set up a small Cloud system in their
> basement, using off the shelf computers and software.
>
> Jim
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Colby" <jwcolby at gmail.com>
> To: "Development in Visual Studio" <dba-vs at databaseadvisors.com>
> Sent: Saturday, November 14, 2015 1:31:49 PM
> Subject: Re: [dba-VS] [AccessD] Visual Studio and source control
>
> I suppose I just don't see the allure of doing my business development
> on the cloud.  I have had my private source control since I began using
> C# many years ago.  It has run like clockwork. It is completely inside
> of my servers.  Why would I go do it out on a public server all of a
> sudden?  This is not a public development effort.  All I am really doing
> is looking at moving from SVN to GitHub, and that only because VS now
> has a GitHub connector.  I have two largish servers that "belong" to the
> client that this code is for.  Everything else of the client's is on
> those servers.  There is simply no point in not keeping his stuff on his
> servers.
>
> At this point all of my development is on my own VMs running on these
> servers (that I hand built ages ago) and the source control is on them
> as well.
>
> You have spent a great deal of effort questioning why I do this but no
> effort explaining why I should not.
>
> On 11/14/2015 4:08 PM, Salakhetdinov Shamil wrote:
> >   John --
> >
> > Even if your private bitbucket.org account will be hacked and locked
> down you'll still have a copy of your sources on your local system disks
> and in your local system backups, - if that is not safe enough IYO then you
> could also have backups on a few "cloud"  sites.
> >
> > -- Shamil
> >
>
> --
> John W. Colby
>
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Arthur