My wife is a Chemsitry and AP Env Studies teacher. If there is ever anything she wants done all she does is bring up safety. Write the word safety on a request and it's done in less than twenty-four hours. Now maybe you can't make this a safety issue, but along those same lines bring up legality issues. Write a memo or email or whatever to your boss, use the words "illigal actions" or something along those lines. If they ignore it, send it to the people of them and right up the line. And ALWAYS document. If someone comes down on you for not improving things, you always have documentation what needs to be done but you did not get the support for it.
Another good thing is get to the administration and faculty. You may need to work at it, but you get the administration on your side and it's amazing what you can get done. Get along with the faculty and you'd be amazed by the response you get simply by talking to them about things (but you need to have some sort of relationship before hand.)
I admit I haven't programmed part of a big project, so I haven't really experienced the issue at hand. But assuming different parts of the same file are what is being modified concurrently, what about using tags for the different logical parts of the file. So if I modified "ThisFunction" and someone else modified "ThatFunction" they could be tagged as... and so on. Then, when it is checked in changes made withing those tags are taken and put in a central copy of the file.
Perhaps is too simplistic or just way off base, but that's my thought.
Steve Jobs knows what he is doing, he keeping Apple alive. When Gateway is being down graded to a Junk Bond, Apple is moving forward. Is it with a different type of customer certainly, but if Apple didn't go for the Hip and Cool they'd already be gone. Why would I buy an Apple if I am a middle-class basic user. Everything I know how to does is PC, everything I interact with is PC.
The only way for Apple to survive is to go for that Cool, Hip market where people want to Edit their own DVD's and have a 1000 songs on their iPod exist.
At this point if Apple went for the standard middle-class they would have been out of business before the first iMac ever hit the shelves. It is their way of survival.
All I know is I have a cousin who turned 18 a couple of months ago. She dropped out of high school and moved to California to live with some guy she met on the internet as her parents put it.
I don't mean that her parents should have watched everything and used filters. But her parents did nothing and then didn't understand why she took off. (I could tell them, but that wouldn't help at this point.)
All I can say is communication. Not you talking to them, you listening to them.
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My wife is a Chemsitry and AP Env Studies teacher. If there is ever anything she wants done all she does is bring up safety. Write the word safety on a request and it's done in less than twenty-four hours. Now maybe you can't make this a safety issue, but along those same lines bring up legality issues. Write a memo or email or whatever to your boss, use the words "illigal actions" or something along those lines. If they ignore it, send it to the people of them and right up the line. And ALWAYS document. If someone comes down on you for not improving things, you always have documentation what needs to be done but you did not get the support for it.
Another good thing is get to the administration and faculty. You may need to work at it, but you get the administration on your side and it's amazing what you can get done. Get along with the faculty and you'd be amazed by the response you get simply by talking to them about things (but you need to have some sort of relationship before hand.)
I admit I haven't programmed part of a big project, so I haven't really experienced the issue at hand. But assuming different parts of the same file are what is being modified concurrently, what about using tags for the different logical parts of the file. So if I modified "ThisFunction" and someone else modified "ThatFunction" they could be tagged as ... and so on. Then, when it is checked in changes made withing those tags are taken and put in a central copy of the file.
Perhaps is too simplistic or just way off base, but that's my thought.
Steve Jobs knows what he is doing, he keeping Apple alive. When Gateway is being down graded to a Junk Bond, Apple is moving forward. Is it with a different type of customer certainly, but if Apple didn't go for the Hip and Cool they'd already be gone. Why would I buy an Apple if I am a middle-class basic user. Everything I know how to does is PC, everything I interact with is PC.
The only way for Apple to survive is to go for that Cool, Hip market where people want to Edit their own DVD's and have a 1000 songs on their iPod exist.
At this point if Apple went for the standard middle-class they would have been out of business before the first iMac ever hit the shelves. It is their way of survival.
All I know is I have a cousin who turned 18 a couple of months ago. She dropped out of high school and moved to California to live with some guy she met on the internet as her parents put it. I don't mean that her parents should have watched everything and used filters. But her parents did nothing and then didn't understand why she took off. (I could tell them, but that wouldn't help at this point.) All I can say is communication. Not you talking to them, you listening to them.