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Readme Driven Development (via) Tom Preston-Werner advocates for writing the readme before any other code. “Until you’ve written about your software, you have no idea what you’ll be coding.”

# 23rd August 2010, 8:20 pm / tom-preston-werner, recovered

Semantic Versioning. Tom Preston-Werner provides a name, specification and URL describing the relatively widely used Major.Minor.Patch versioning system. This is really useful—by giving something a name and a spec, people can say “this project uses semantic versioning” and skip having to explain their backwards compatibility policy in full.

# 15th December 2009, 9:53 pm / naming-things, open-source, semanticversioning, software, tom-preston-werner, versioning