I remember the first Java project we got put on, that was amazing. It was a team of four devs. We were producing set top box software, so it was almost J2ME, highly embedded. We wrote all the code using VIM and we used Win-CVS. We just checked out the code and we checked it back in again. We resolved the mergers between us and all using the same code base; no branches, nothing funny. The simplest project imaginable. We had some really just stupid rules in that company, like every line of code should have a comment. I remember doing full Java docs for every single method I wrote and just going: it’s just so obvious, why can’t we just miss it out for this one? But we weren’t allowed to because of the company policy.
a single small team
