FOSS In A Startup

Software was written in C++ - so it was compiled with g++.
Makefiles were written to compile the project
And CVS was used to manage versions
Doxygen was used for automatic API documentation generation. We hardly read the documentation (viewing the header files was more comfortable) - but it forced us to write better documentation.
As a new initiate of the "automatic testing" cult, I set up the system very early for automatic builds every night, that included running automatic unit and sub-system tests.
In addition, learning from sourceforge, the CVS server was set to send diffs after every check-in - and I made a habit of reading them every day, and using the SCSI cable to flog the criminals...

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