Blog, wiki et al. as lightweight tools for successful projects

Bertrand [1] gives good reasons why we should not mail Wordprocessing documents around but use blogs, wikis, mailinglists, cvs et al. to communicate and work together. That reminds me of the \”Shortest Wiki Contest\” I saw yesterday [2]. The shortest Wiki comes with 4 lines of code 😉

The good thing on weblogs, as Bertrand notes, is that it tells \”the story\”. This is his view of the use of a weblog for project. Quite an interesting aspect if you want to know, what was your project a year ago.

Desert Island Tools:
– The CVS Rule (if it\’s not in the CVS, it doesn\’t exist)
– The Bugzilla Rule (if you\’re working, it must be on a bugzilla issue)

[1] http://lots.ch/Programm_Referat_Detail.html?id=2004.1.R.25
[2] http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ShortestWikiContest

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