{"id":2557,"date":"2015-04-29T15:45:44","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T15:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/smallworld\/?p=2557"},"modified":"2015-04-30T17:54:21","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T17:54:21","slug":"2557","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/smallworld\/2015\/04\/29\/2557\/","title":{"rendered":"Version Control and Development Languages"},"content":{"rendered":"

Version\u00a0Control<\/b><\/em><\/span><\/h1>\n

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\nfar\u00a0the\u00a0most\u00a0widely-used\u00a0and\u00a0documented\u00a0option.<\/p>\n

We\u00a0used\u00a0SourceTree\u00a0to\u00a0manage\u00a0our\u00a0Git\u00a0repositories.\u00a0It\u00a0has\u00a0an\u00a0extremely\u00a0helpful
\ngraphical user\u00a0interface,\u00a0and\u00a0excellent\u00a0GitFlow\u00a0functionality.<\/p>\n

Development\u00a0Languages\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/em><\/h1>\n

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\nproject\u00a0such\u00a0as\u00a0ASP.NET,\u00a0PHP\u00a0and\u00a0JAVA\u00a0EE.\u00a0Even\u00a0though\u00a0each\u00a0framework\u00a0is
\nwell-developed\u00a0and\u00a0has\u00a0a\u00a0wide\u00a0range\u00a0objects\u00a0and\u00a0libraries,\u00a0PHP\u00a0was\u00a0chosen.\u00a0This\u00a0is
\nbecause\u00a0PHP\u00a0easily\u00a0integrates\u00a0with\u00a0HTML\u00a0and\u00a0CSS\u00a0and\u00a0it\u00a0is\u00a0easy\u00a0to\u00a0host.\u00a0(DuBois,2015)
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\ncomponents\u00a0of\u00a0the\u00a0system.<\/p>\n

References:<\/strong>
\nDuBois, MB 2015, ‘Learning PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, CSS & HTML5: a step-by-step guide to creating dynamic Websites. 3rd ed’, Choice: Current Reviews For Academic Libraries, 52, 5, p. 845, Supplemental Index, EBSCOhost, viewed 29 April 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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