Tip Jar #12 - One Project, Multiple Programmers: How to Play Nice

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This Blog entry is the 8th in a series intended primarily for FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) teams and their mentors.

We filmed this video at a Seminar on January 24, 2009 at Sheridan College in Oakville, Ontario Canada. Many thanks to Sheridan for the use of one of their lecture theaters. Sheridan is one of the generous sponsors of team 843, and a fantastic Polytechnic Institution. Check them out.

In this blog entry, I discuss how multiple programmers can work together on the same project:
Communicate!
Split the tasks: don't all work on the same portion of the code
Take advantage of separate SubVIs and Typedefs
Make sure your files are where you think they are: files tab in project screen
How to split up the Robot Typedef into separate sub-typedefs
How to replace and "resynchronize" your project after changes are made
Backup code by zipping the entire project directory