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January 2008 - Posts

  • Continuous vs Controlled Integration

    The folks at DDJ have just published one of our writings on software configuration management. This time our paper talks about the pros and cons of controlled vs continuous integration which is a hot topic for us. Both strategies have benefits and downsides...
  • Plastic 2 on Solaris

    I've just finished setting up a Plastic BL081 (preview 2) server on Solaris. $ uname -a SunOS atenea 5.11 snv_34 sun4u sparc SUNW, Sun-Blade-1000 $ I've downloaded the latest 2.0.3 Firebird Server for Solaris 10 SPARC , installed it and had some...
  • New Release BL063.11!

    We are working hard on the new Plastic SCM 2.0 but we are also releasing a new version of our Plastic SCM 1.5! You can now download Plastic SCM 1.5 Build 63.11 (internally BL063.11) from http://www.codicesoftware.com/opdownloads2.aspx. As a maintenance...
  • Real world performance

    In my previous post about performance I forgot to mention one important issue. It is an obvious one, but normally misunderstood: testbots are not real users. Even when you try to randomize their behaviour and try to make them look like humans... it is...
  • Plastic stress testing

    I've been focusing on performance for the last month or so. Basically I've been checking how Plastic works under heavy load. It is very interesting to note how behavior differs from one single user accessing the server to several users running...
  • Plastic 2.0 preview, step by step tour

    We've just introduced Plastic 2.0 preview so now it is time to go through some of the new features, step by step. The first thing you've probably noticed is the totally new GUI . We've rewritten the 1.x desktop tool trying to introduce a platform...
  • Plastic 2.0 preview is out!

    We've just released a first preview of the upcoming Plastic SCM 2.0! You can download it here for both Windows and Linux, including a VMWare machine. We'll be posting much more about what's new in Plastic 2.0, but right now we're interested...
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