I’m a big huge believer in applying the tools honed in other areas to make my life better/easier. To that aim, I have been reading Prof. Hacker (http://www.profhacker.com/) a lot. The team of writers there share my vision of bringing software tools to Academics, researchers and the like.

Today they have a post (hopefully the start of a series) which discusses a class of programs called “Version Control.”

Most of you can get what that means just from the title, but the ah-ha moment comes when you can see its impact on an example in your own sphere of work.

I suggest you check out the article as its a fairly good introduction to the wide world of version control. I know I am looking forward to the responses to their closing question: “what do you want to know about integrating version control into your professional life (developer or not)?”