August 2007 - Posts

• New tree 3D layout

  The team have been working on the new layout algorithm for the plastic 3D tree. With long revision histories the tree currently has a cone-like behaviour, so it gets wider close to the end, which makes it more difficult to understand. So they changed... Posted Aug 26 2007, 05:08 AM by Códice Software

• More on the new GUI

  We've just uploaded a new screencast of the new (still under heavy development) GUI system. Read More... Posted Aug 22 2007, 11:13 AM by Códice Software

• Plastic SCM 2.0 pre

  We're currently working on several open projects which will all end up creating the upcoming Plastic SCM 2.0 release. Some of the changes and new features have been already highlighted weeks ago ( what's next ). The feature I'm currently working... Posted Aug 21 2007, 07:38 AM by Códice Software Filed under: GUI

• Running Plastic server on Linux

  Linux has been a primary goal for us since the beginning of the project. We're still trying to put our GUI into the mainline (thanks to the mono folks), but the server has been up and running for months. In fact many companies seem to be very interested... Posted Aug 17 2007, 10:03 AM by Códice Software

• Component oriented development

  Component based software development is not only good for boosting reuse in your project, it also has some other benefits like simplifying project management. Yes, splitting up your software depending on the number of developers or their abilities doesn... Posted Aug 14 2007, 11:52 AM by Códice Software

• SCRUM and CMMi at DDJ

  We've just published a new article on DDJ talking about our experience in CMMi using SCRUM . We tried to tell which were the problems we found and how we tried to keep focus on being agile while still working on the CMMi evaluation. Questions are... Posted Aug 12 2007, 03:07 PM by Códice Software

• Getting stats with the query system

  The query system is one of the new features we released with Plastic 1.5. It opens up new possibilities to create customized statistics and know what is going on in your development. We wanted to make the query system as simple as possible (you can always... Posted Aug 10 2007, 05:50 AM by Códice Software

• Plastic @ freshmeat

  Hi all, As you already know plastic is free for open source projects. Well, we think it makes sense adding it to freshmeat so a wider audience can learn about it. We will be adding new releases and a direct download link there, so it is a good mechanism... Posted Aug 09 2007, 12:54 PM by Códice Software

• Release BL063.2 is out!

  We've just released Plastic SCM 1.5 Build 63.2 (BL063.2 internally). We've been basically focusing on usability, trying to solve some issues which were not clear enough. The first improvement is the ability to select a repository to work on when... Posted Aug 08 2007, 04:26 AM by Códice Software