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Who-T: On commit messages
http://who-t.blogspot.com/2009/12/on-commit-messages.html

About composing commits and writing commit log messages.

An opinion piece on what comprises a good commit message.

Any software project is a collaborative project. It has at least two developers, the original developer and the original developer a few weeks or months later when the train of thought has long left the station. This later self needs to reestablish the context of a particular piece of code each time a new bug occurs or a new feature needs to be implemented.

"In the last few weeks, I've had a surprising number of discussions about commit messages. Many of them were with developers new to a project, trying to get them started. So here's a list of things you should do when committing, and why you should do it."

An excellent list of best-practices for commit messages when using your favourite version control system.

good reasoning on howto, and hwo not to write commit messages

Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) is a web service that makes it easy to set up, operate, and send notifications from the cloud. It provides developers with a highly scalable, flexible, and cost-effective capability to publish messages from an application and immediately deliver them to subscribers or other applications. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.

Amazon SNS is a shot across Twitter's bow: an event update API is a critical component in an Internet of Things >> http://j.mp/9cpSVb