April 2008 - Posts

• SCM trends at DDJ

  The folks at DDJ have just interviewed me about SCM Trends . I tried to give my own view about the future of SCM and even talked about how threading and concurrency (which I've to admit is one of my favourite topics since long, long ago I first read... Posted Apr 29 2008, 03:50 PM by Códice Software

• new blog skin

  Our blog skin has been changed today to match the website looks and I started to browse old entries. I found a couple of funny videos showing how to control our 3D version tree with a gamepad and a wii remote . Just for fun: src="http://video.google... Posted Apr 17 2008, 09:57 AM by Códice Software

• The break up, a Clearcase bad love affair

  This is the true story of a break up: a sesioned SCM manager tells us why he finally broke up with is beloved system: clearcase. It probably sounds just like a funny joke, but please read on carefully and find the hard facts behind his disappointment... Posted Apr 09 2008, 04:57 AM by Códice Software

• The fastest way to insert 100K registers

  I’m doing some performance tests today with our three different database backends: MySql, Firebird and SQL Server. My goal is to find the fastest way to insert a big number of registers into a table taking into account the different backends. My test... Posted Apr 08 2008, 04:33 AM by Códice Software

• Advanced selectors, part III

  After the previous posts describing selectors in detail, it's now time to enter the last selector frontier: multi repository selectors. As you know plastic can manage multiple repositories. You can map each one of your projects inside a plastic repository... Posted Apr 07 2008, 03:06 AM by Códice Software

• Hiding branches using security

  How can I set up plastic security so that developers can only see their own branches plus the main one and the maintenance? I was asked this a couple of days ago and now I’ll try to give a detailed answer and explain, step by step, how to set it up with... Posted Apr 04 2008, 04:59 AM by Códice Software Filed under: scm plastic security

• Obtaining reports about repository activity

  What if you want to know which revisions have been created in the last days? Who made the changes, where? Or if you're looking for changes made at a certain component to locate an specific modification you'd like to review? It is very easy now... Posted Apr 03 2008, 01:38 PM by Códice Software Filed under: scm

• Integration strategies

  Previously we were discussing about the future of continuous integration , according to Duvall’s award-winning book and possible alternatives. Today I’ll be focusing precisely on this topic: different alternatives to handle the integration phase. Some... Posted Apr 02 2008, 02:40 AM by Códice Software