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Now Atari wants everything

Yes, we've found gocd does a terrific job of allowing you cleanly model your full continuous delivery workflow and organize your servers.

Already done:

Microsoft calls end to Android Nokia X smartphones http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-28348534

Interesting; looks like a hybrid approach:

"Counting by lines of code, roughly one-third of the codebase on each platform is shared C++ code."

Source: https://code.facebook.com/posts/498597036962415/under-the-ho...

They are using a custom version of Djinni for cross-platform support.

Looks like Microsoft is going down a similar path with Visual Studio:

https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/features/cplusplus-mdd-vs...

From that link: "All backed by Fanatical Pilot Support™"

Strikes me as a poor choice of words for their market.

Oh well. Guess we'll have to wait for Homomorphic encryption:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption

I used to use feature branches more heavily but these days Branch By Abstraction tends to be my first choice.

http://continuousdelivery.com/2011/05/make-large-scale-chang...