Frank Hofmann

Constant Backup Using Gitwatch

Have you ever felt that software seems to have a mind of its own, is sometimes stubborn, and works a bit against you? Unfortunately, this behaviour happens - and can lead to losing intermediate steps of our work, or even losing the entire results...

Let's Talk Backup Strategies

Why Consider Backup Strategies? Saving copies of your work as backups is essential to prevent data loss, especially in today’s digital and multi-connected world. The reasons range from hardware failures (manmade or natural) to accidental data...

Surprising news - Microsoft acquired the developer platform GitHub

In June 2018 many of us were surprised to see Microsoft announce the purchase of the developer platform GitHub for $7.5 billion. GitHub confirmed the deal [1]. Wow! What a bomb. This is only the tenth multi-billion dollar acquisition of Microsoft in...