{"id":144,"date":"2001-08-23T00:02:25","date_gmt":"2001-08-23T00:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/?p=144"},"modified":"2001-08-23T00:02:25","modified_gmt":"2001-08-23T00:02:25","slug":"20010823","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/2001\/08\/23\/20010823\/","title":{"rendered":"2001\/08\/23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><STRONG>Ron Vogl<\/STRONG> writes:<\/P> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\"> <P><FONT face=Arial size=2>I did an internship at Microsoft in the summer of 1997, and at that time, Microsoft had two source-code control tools in use.&nbsp; Some groups did indeed use source-safe.&nbsp; The Outlook group, of which I was a temporary member, used an internal Microsoft tool called Source Library Manager, abbreviated SLM and pronounced either slim or slam depending on how you were feeling about it.&nbsp; SLM was command-line only, with a mix of SourceSafe- and CVS-style workings.&nbsp; From what I could gather from the interns in other groups, SourceSafe and SLM were used in roughly equal amounts.<\/FONT><\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE>Yeah, I used SLM in the old days. Given how devoted Microsoft is to <A href=\"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/articles\/fog0000000012.html\">eating your own dog food<\/A>, the fact that there are still groups that don&#8217;t use SourceSafe says something about how bad that product must be. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ron Vogl writes: I did an internship at Microsoft in the summer of 1997, and at that time, Microsoft had two source-code control tools in use.&nbsp; Some&hellip; <span class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/2001\/08\/23\/20010823\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;2001\/08\/23&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s83KNI-20010823","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}